About
Clara Mokri is a visual journalist from Los Angeles, California. A Division 1 basketball player at Yale University, she received her BA in Political Science in 2018. Formerly on the photo team at TIME Magazine, and the assistant photo editor at VICE, she is currently receiving her Masters in Journalism at UC Berkeley, where she is studying documentary filmmaking.
Professional Experience
TIME Magazine
Photo Coordinator
Vice
Assistant Photo Editor
Surfer Magazine
Editorial Intern
TuMe Beverage Company
Photographer and Digital Marketing
Joni Sternbach, Photographer
Intern
The Yale Globalist
Production and Photo Editor
The Yale Photography Society
Former President and Editor-in-Chief
Work featured in TIME, Vice, Surfer Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Aint—Bad, Good Sport Magazine, The Independent Photographer, Musée Magazine, Motherboard, MATTE Magazine, The Sports Column, The Inertia, Study Breaks Magazine, The Yale Globalist, and The Yale Daily News
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: Head Curator
The Slifka Center, Yale University
April 19 - June 1, 2017
Arroyo Seco: Solo Exhibition
Koffee? Coffee Shop, 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
Press
UC Berkeley News
January 9, 2020
Dorothea Lange Fellowship winner tells stories of people on the fringe
RAW Artists
August 29, 2019
Aint—Bad
August 25, 2019
May 21, 2017
Yale Photojournalist Clara Mokri Explores Iranian-American Identity with Cherry Rice
New York Times Student Journalism Institute
New York, 2020
Society of Professional Journalists
Berkeley, 2019
Yale Journalism Scholar
New Haven, 2018
Finalist, The Independent Photographer Visual Story Competition
Berkeley, 2020
Recipient, Dorothea Lange Photography Fellowship Award
Berkeley, 2020
TIME Magazine's 2019 Best Photojournalism
New York City , 2019
Recipient, FLAS Fellowship Award
Berkeley, 2019
Recipient, International Cinematographer's Guild Local 600 Grant
Los Angeles, 2017
Grant Recipient, Yale CIPE Summer Journalism Fellowship
New Haven, 2016 and 2017
Best Photograph in People and Places Category, The Yale Globalist Photo Show
New Haven, 2015
Young Arts Award for Photography
Los Angeles, 2013
National Scholastic Gold Key Awards for the Arts
Los Angeles, 2012