Clay Haskell

Teaches at Los Angeles Center of Photography

Clay Haskell is an award winning photographer, director and cinematographer. His work has been broadcast globally and seen on Showtime, Netflix, BBC, CBC, CBS, PBS, NHK, Amazon Prime and AppleTV+. Clay grew up in Tucson, Arizona where he discovered his love of cameras and storytelling. After attending Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Clay was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for his photography. One of the first Fulbright Fellows ever to live in China, he documented the rise of sweatshop labor in Chinese factories as well as the nascent Hong Kong Democracy movement. After attending the American Film Institute, Clay began teaching filmmaking at Colorado College. Taking advantage of the rise in digital filmmaking, Clay built the college program into a nationally recognized school for filmmaking. Clay worked on a number of documentaries and fiction films. Clay’s photography has been shown in numerous galleries and published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Clay has recently produced HOME, an episodic documentary series for AppleTV+