About

Clara Shuku Mokri is an Indonesian-Iranian photographer, documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and surfer from Los Angeles, living in Santa Cruz, CA. She received her BA from Yale University in 2018, where she was a member of the Yale Women's Basketball team, and her MJ in Documentary Filmmaking at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2021.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian, The Players' Tribune, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Vice, California Sunday, New York Magazine, Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Pulitzer Center, among others.
In 2022, she was honored by The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch. She is a member of Diversify Photo and Women Photograph, and an alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop.
Contact clara.mokri@gmail.com
View CV here
The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
Honoree, 2022
UC Berkeley Journalism Excellence Award
Honoree, 2022
The Jim Marshall Fellowship in Photojournalism
Winner, 2021
Lucie Foundation
Finalist, 2021
The Dorothea Lange Fellowship
Winner, 2020
The Independent Photographer Contest
Finalist, 2020
TIME Magazine Best Photojournalism
Honoree, 2019
ICG Local 600 Scholarship
Recipient, 2017
RAW Artists Presents: STELLAR, an Artist Showcase
1015 Folsom, San Francisco CA
October 2, 2019
Senior Commencement Show
Timothy Dwight Gallery, Yale University
May 03 - May 21, 2018
Salt, Sea, and Sky: Co-producer of film, Surfing in Other Languages with Joni Sternbach
The Harn Museum, Gainesville FL
November 21, 2017 - April 24, 2018
Yale Undergraduate Photography Society Spring Show: Lead Curator
The Slifka Center, Yale University
April 19 - June 1, 2017
Arroyo Seco: Solo Exhibition
Koffee, New Haven CT
March 1- April 1, 2017
Yale Undergraduate Photography Society Fall Show: Head Curator
The Study Hotel, New Haven CT
October 28 - November 28, 2016
Women Photograph
Member since 2021
Diversify Photo
Member since 2021
New York Times Student Journalism Institute
New York, 2021
The Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIII
Jeffersonville, 2020
Annenberg x Photoville Portfolio Review
New York, 2020
International Documentary Association Pre-Selection Committee
Los Angeles, 2020
Asian American Journalist Association
Member since 2019
Society of Professional Journalists
Member since 2019
Yale Journalism Scholar
Member since 2018
Press
In the Flash: Newsletter by Dina Litovsky
January 28, 2022
My Favorites from The 30, the Photo World's Top Emerging Talent List
The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
January 12, 2022
April 7, 2021
February 19, 2021
Dorothea Lange’s legacy lives on through a fellowship at UC Berkeley
February 2, 2021
Basketball and Brains Podcast
October 4, 2020
Life Through Clara Mokri's Lens
UC Berkeley News
August 26, 2020
Clara Mokri named Jim Marshall Fellow for Photojournalism
The First Step Podcast
February 4, 2020
Photography 101 with Clara Mokri
May 21, 2017
Yale Photojournalist Clara Mokri Explores Iranian-American Identity with Cherry Rice