Clara Shuku Mokri is an Indonesian-Iranian photographer, cinematographer and documentary filmmaker from Los Angeles working between West Sumatra, Indonesia and Santa Cruz, California. She received her BA in Political Science from Yale University and her Masters of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
As a woman of color and first-generation American, her work is informed by her family’s history and her own lived experiences. She tells character-driven stories that address broader themes of gender, immigration, neocolonialism, the environment and sports. Stylistically, she combines natural and artificial light to evoke vibrant colors, repeating patterns and tangible textures.
She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bloomberg Businessweek, NBC News, The Washington Post and Vice, among others. She is an alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop and the New York Times Student Journalism Institute, a selected member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo, and an ambassador for Adobe.
In 2022, she was included in The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch list and in 2019, one of her photographs was selected for TIME Magazine’s Best Photojournalism of the Year.
Her film Anchored Out was nominated for an International Documentary Association (IDA) award and acquired by The New Yorker in 2022, after receiving recognition at notable film festivals across the US, including at Big Sky and Mill Valley, among others.
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