About
Jessica Dimmock’s work focusses on humanstic and intimate storytelling. She is the recipient of numerous international awards for her photography and video work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three World Press Photo Awards for short films, The Inge Morath Award from Magnum, the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, The Infinity Award for Photojournalist of the Year from the International Center of Photography, and The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at the Hamptons International Film Festival. She is a Sundance Edit and Story Lab Fellow, and her first feature film The Pearl was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival and was executive produced by Impact Partners. Her clients include HBO, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Microsoft, The UNFPA, Aperture, Showtime and PBS. She is the co-director of the Netflix series Flint Town as and directed on the reboot of Unsolved Mysteries and AppleTV’s Home.
Curriculum Vitae
AWARDS
2017 World Press Photo, Long Form
2016 Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature, Dallas International Film Festival
2014 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Filmmaker Magazine
2014 Infinity Award for Photojournalist of the Year, The International Center of Photography
2013 World Press Photo, Online Feature, 1st Prize
2013 Picture of the Year International, Issue Reporting Multimedia Story, 2nd place
2012 Emmy Nomination, Starved for Attention
2011 Kodak Award for Best Cinematography, Hamptons International Film Festival
2008 The F Award for Concerned Photography, Forma and Fabrica
2008 The Inge Morath Award for Photojournalism, Magnum
2007 Juror's Choice Award, The Santa Fe Center for Photography
2007 The Marty Forscher Fellowship, Photo District News
2007 New York Photo Festival, 1st place in Multimedia
2007 Picture of the Year International, Best Photography Book, Finalist
EXHIBITIONS
2014 Paparazzi! Centre Pompidou - Metz, France
2013 The Ninth Floor, Gage Gallery, Chicago, solo show
2012 Too Young To Wed (video), The United Nations, New York
2011 The Ninth Floor, CERO Gallery, Madrid, solo show
2010 The Brothel Without Walls, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto
2010 Starved For Attention: The Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition, The New York Times, New York
2010 Starved For Attention: The Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition, Forma, Milan
2009 The Ninth Floor, Locuslux Gallery, Belgium, solo show
2009 Viewing Restricted, The London School of Economics, London
2008 The Ninth Floor, Foam, Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, solo show
2008 The Ninth Floor, Foley Gallery, New York, solo show
2008 Under Influence, Kunsthaus, Dresden
2008 Dispatches From the Frontlines, Fovea Gallery, New York
2008 Eight, Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC
2007 The Ninth Floor, Forma, The International Center of Photography, Milan
2007 Aperture at 55, Aperture, New York
BOOKS
The Ninth Floor (Monograph. Contrasto) 2007
The Photobook: A History Volume III by Martin Parr (Phaidon) 2014
The Documentary Impulse by Stuart Franklin (Phaidon) 2016
A New American Photographic Dream (Silvana Editoriale Publishing) 2010
This Day of Change (Kodansha Limited) 2009
C-International (Ivory Press) 2009
Flash Forward (Magenta Foundation) 2006
American Photography 22 (AI-AP) 2006