About - Neil Brandvold

Neil Brandvold is an award winning filmmaker and photographer with experience working in conflict, disaster and post-disaster zones around the globe.

Brandvold has worked with numerous outlets including The New York Times, HBO, NETFLIX, Fault Lines, The Washington Post, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, PBS FRONTLINE, WIRED, VICE, Al Jazeera WITNESS, PRO PUBLICA, The Intercept, The Guardian, Big Story, ABC News, USA Today, NATURE Magazine, FRANCE TV, Global Health Now, NPR, PRI, BBC, CNN, and many more.

Brandvold is also a multiple Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee.

Brandvold has also worked with many non-profit, non-governmental organizations including:

Medecin Sans Frontiere, World Health Organization, USAID, Plan International, Glasswing International, Catholic Relief Services, Handicap International, Family Health International FHI360, and Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative.

Hostile Environment/First Aid Training:

Brandvold has completed the Battlefield Medical Response training from RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues), Hostile Environment Training from Pioneer Consulting Group, as well as Hostile Environment/First Aid training from Global Journalist Security.

Equipment: Sony FX6, Nikon D5

Lenses: Nikkor 2.8 16-35mm
Nikkor 2.8 24-70mm
Nikkor 2.8 70-200mm
Nikkor 1.8 50mm

Aerial: DJI Mavic Air

4k 360 Video

Selected work:

Unforgivable (reported in El Salvador).
What's Driving People From El Salvador (reported in El Salvador). New York Times.
State of Fear (reported in El Salvador). Big Story.
Deportees Welcome (reported in El Salvador). Al Jazeera | WITNESS.
An Asylum Seeker’s Journey from El Salvador to Arkansas, and Back Again (reported in El Salvador). The New Yorker.
God and the Gang (reported in El Salvador). The Economist.
The Only Way Out (reported in El Salvador). The Guardian.
Rapid Cure Approved for Sleeping Sickness, a Horrific Illness (reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo). New York Times.
Family Faces Impossible Choice. Reunite Child With Detained Mother or Undocumented Father? (reported in Oakland,California). The Intercept.
The Gang Crackdown (reported in El Salvador). PBS FRONTLINE.
Triste (reported in El Salvador). ProPublica
Women Waging Peace in Central America (reported in El Salvador and Honduras). Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace & Security
Regeneration: Restoring Soil Health with Biodiversity in El Salvador (reported in El Salvador). Center for Strategic & International Studies
Azure - Investing in Water (reported in El Salvador). Catholic Relief Services.
Invisible Killers (reported in Liberia and Sierra Leone). DISCOVERY.
Hondros (reported in Liberia). NETFLIX.
Meet the Fearless Ebola Hunters of Sierra Leone (reported in Sierra Leone). National Geographic.
From the battlegrounds of Eastern Congo (reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Washington Post.
Nurses were sidelined in the $3.3bn Ebola response (reported in Sierra Leone). Newsweek.
Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease (reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo). Global Health Now.
In Congo, Rising Violence Triggers New U.N. Unit (reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Washington Post.
Africas deadliest war enters a new phase in Congo (reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo). USA Today.
The Untold Global Health Story of 2015: Mycetoma (reported in Sudan). Global Health Now.
Salvador : les pesticides hors la loi (reported in El Salvador). FRANCE TV.
Out of the Syrian crisis, a data revolution takes shape (reported in Jordan). NATURE Magazine.
Sleeping sickness can now be cured with pills (reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo). NATURE Magazine.
They Don’t Care About Black People Dying In The Bush (reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo). Huffington Post.
A Deadly Disease Threatens To Regain Ground Deep In The African Jungle (reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo). Huffington Post.
He Volunteered To Help Stop A Blinding Parasite. Then He Lost His Sight (reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo). Huffington Post.
De África saldrán las epidemias del futuro (reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo). El Pais.
LA ÚLTIMA TRINCHERA DE LA MOSCA TSETSÉ (reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo). El Pais.
FOTOS: Víctimas del sueño (reported in Democratic Republic of the Congo). El Pais.