ABOUT
A freelance multimedia producer based in Buenos Aires, John Owens works with video, photography and words.
John has worked with a range of major media outlets and iNGOs to produce both short form and long form visual content, including documentaries. With a strong background in current affairs and investigations, John often focuses on issues of human rights. Hostile environment trained, he has worked in a range of complex and challenging environments including Iraq, Ukraine, Somalia and the Rohingya camps of Bangladesh. However, he has also covered in everything from opera through to ice cream, via rusting locomotives.
John’s clients have included the BBC, Al Jazeera, Vice, VOA News, Save the Children, Human Rights Watch and the International Rescue Committee among others. He is particularly interested in collaborative and participatory methods of content creation.
You can email him at johnsmowens@gmail.com
SHOWREEL
Selected films
PHOTO PROJECTS
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- Sabha Hassan Abla shows where the roof of her tent has been leaking. Unable to afford heating, she fears for the health of her children as they spend their third winter in a refugee camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
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- Extinction Rebellion
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- Singles
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- Rohingya Families
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- Some continued the protests, setting up camp and going on hunger strikes. Here, a hunger striker is taken to hospital.
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- Stephan (front): “I run a construction business and we stopped because people were understandably nervous but it’s great to be back working again. I’ve been pretty bored during lockdown. You hear all kinds of messages – masks, no masks, so on – but I just go out because I know the sun is good for me. “We have four generations living here in Dalston. I’m 42 now, and growing up around here you had to be strong, but if you knew the right people you were fine. It’s changed a lot, but change is good. “I like reading about history, and the environment. You work in documentaries? Have you done anything on chemtrails? You should.”
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- Shatila Sports
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- Nur Kabir does not know when he and his family will return to Myanmar. Due to the long-running persecution of the Rohingya some have lived in Bangladesh for decades.
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- This is a lookout point in northern Lesvos, one of the Greek islands that has received well over a million refugees and migrants. Volunteers and coastguards keep watch over the narrow slither of sea for small dinghies making their way across from Turkey.
WRITING
Deutsche Welle
Voice of America News
The New Humanitarian
Voice of America News
Voice of America News
Middle East Eye