BROOKE HERBERT (SHE/HER)

I’m a documentary filmmaker and visual journalist based in Portland, Oregon. Previously, I was a video producer at The Oregonian and a producer and director with Blue Chalk Media. I also worked as a multimedia editor at the Chicago Tribune. I spent several years living between here and New Delhi, India.

I earned my M.A. from Ohio University, where I (badly) taught courses in photo editing and photojournalism. Before that, I got a B.F.A. near my hometown at University of Louisville’s Hite Institute of Art + Design. I studied painting, photography, printmaking and art history, with big aspirations to be a working artist (HA!).

My interest in documentary work began early — 1. when I claimed my late grandpa’s piles of National Geographic magazines that he hoarded in his trailer in Kentucky (thanks, Bob Yager); and 2. when one of my teachers showed us Hoop Dreams (I had about a week of trying to shoot hoops in my driveway, but quickly learned sports were not my forte, so maybe I should make documentaries instead). My first camera was ordered from the back of a cereal box when I was 8. It was plastic, had no viewfinder and was my favorite toy. I was raised in a 1914 farmhouse, 30 miles from Louisville, Kentucky with 5 siblings and a lot of bug bites.

I am a member of Women Photograph, The Journal collective and The Video Consortium. I am currently available for assignments in the U.S.

Say hey: abrookeherbert[at]gmail.com

+1 503-444-1831 (US)

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

Part 107 Drone Pilot
Wilderness First Aid

RECOGNITION

NW Regional Emmys  

2025 recipient of two Emmys for long-form documentary

2020, 2021, 2024 nominee

NPPA Best of Photography

2018 Feature multimedia story

2021 Second place, video and documentary

Society for Professional Journalists

2022, First place: video

2021, First place: video feature, hard news

Society for Features Journalism

2021, First place: video storytelling

2020, First place: video storytelling

ONPA

2022, First place: multimedia online

Best of the West

2022, First place, video storytelling

SELECTED CLIENTS & PUBLICATIONS

ProPublica

TIME

The Intercept

High Country News

CBS News

Getty

Blue Chalk Media

Voice of America

Chicago Tribune

CARE International

The Olympic Channel

The Oregonian

Oregon Public Broadcasting

HBO Max

Associated Press

Photo by Kenzie Bruce