J Carrier (b. Biloxi, Mississippi) spent the better part of a decade living and working in Africa and the middle east, followed by tours in Brooklyn and DC, He has lived in central Vermont with his family since 2020.
J has a BS in wildlife & fisheries science and forestry from the pennsylvania state university (1996) and an MFA from the hartford art school (2012) . he has taught at cornell university, the international center of photography (NYC), and western connecticut state and is currently an assistant professor at george mason university and a mentor with Image Threads Collective.
J's commissioned work regularly appeared in the new york times magazine, national geographic, time, fortune, CNN, newsweek, men's journal, XXL, dazed and confused, le monde, and the financial times garnering many awards (NY photo awards, AI+AP, Center). he was nominated for PDN30 (2016), the john gutmann photography fellowship (2013 & 2012), and was a finalist for the santa fe prize for photography (2011).
J’s artistic practice centers on the photobook and he has published 7 books. Most recently Mi´raj (TIS, 2024), the second book in his Palestine/Israel trilogy. The first book in this series, elementary calculus, was published by MACK (UK) in September, 2012, and selected for numerous "best of the year" lists (including,Time Magazine, Alec Soth/LBM, Photo-Eye, ICP) and was also included in the 2013 International Center of Photography Triennial.
He is currently finishing work on the third volume in this series Adraba: Incircles, composed of photographs made over a ten-year period in Israel and Palestine.
Other books include untitled 1 (TIS, 2014), untitled 2 (TIS, 2016),The Folly (TIS, 2021), Easter Sunday, (PoppyJem Press, 2022), and 7:31 (PoppyJem Press 2022).