Bio
Evan Abramson is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer born in New York City. Together with his wife Carmen Elsa Lopez, he writes, directs, shoots, edits and produces. In 2010 they formed Cows in the Field, a production house focused on telling the stories of people impacted by environmental crisis around the globe — and on finding solutions.
Their 2011 documentary Carbon for Water has won nearly 20 film festival awards. Evan’s 2010 multimedia documentary When the Water Ends won First Prize at the 2012 World Water Forum and was nominated for a Webby, a World Press Photo Award and was a finalist in the Online Journalism Awards.
“Film and photography are tools that I use to express the ideals that I value as a human being, and to measure the distance between those ideals and the reality of the world that we inhabit. The distance is enormous, and ever expanding: and so, this storytelling is a tireless task.”
Evan’s photography has been published in National Geographic Adventure, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, FT Weekend, The Sunday Times, Du Magazin, Yale Environment 360, NACLA: Report on the Americas, The Progressive and Courier Japan.
He holds a Monroe Fellowship from Tulane University for his work on a new film Last Stand on the Island.
Filmography and awards:
Last Stand on the Island (2013)
$13,842 raised on Kickstarter
Monroe Fellowship from Tulane University
Carbon for Water (2011)
Winner, Best International Short Film
2011 Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival
Winner, Best Documentary Short
2011 California International Shorts Festival
Highly Commended
2011 Development & Climate Days Film Festival at COP17
Winner, Best Environmental Sustainability Film
2012 Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival
Winner, EarthVision Environmental Short Award
2012 Santa Cruz Film Festival
Winner, Best Environmental Short Film
2012 Indie Spirit Film Festival
Winner, Sir Edmund Hillary Award for Environmental Film
2012 Mountain Film Awards
Winner, Best Documentary
Audience Choice Award
Social Entrepreneurship Outstanding Merit Award
2012 The MIX International Film Festival
Winner, Best Documentary Short
2012 Albany Film Festival
Winner, Best Environmental Film
2012 Honolulu Film Awards
Winner, Best Documentary
2012 Love Your Shorts Film Festival
Winner, Best Short Documentary
2012 NYLA International Film Festival
Winner, Best Educational Film
2012 Mexico International Film Festival
Winner, Best Documentary Short
2012 Geneva Film Festival
Winner, Water Rights Special Award
2012 A Film For Peace Festival
Winner, Best Short Documentary
2012 Desert Rocks Film Festival
When the Water Ends (2010)
Winner, Gold Drop First Prize in ‘Testimony’ Category
2012 World Water Forum International Water & Film Festival
Winner, Best Short Film
2011 Tutti nello stesso piatto International Food, Film & Videodiversity Festival
Finalist
2011 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest
Finalist
2011 Online Journalism Awards
Nominee
2011 Webby Awards, Documentary: Individual Episode category
Shortlist
2011 Anthropographia Award for Human Rights and Photography, Multimedia Category
His photography and multimedia installations have been exhibited at the MAC (Contemporary Art Museum), Santiago, Chile (2011), Noorderlicht Photofestival, The Netherlands (2010), Rayburn House Building, United States Congress, Washington, DC (2010), Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia (2009), Washington Square East Galleries, New York City (2009), The National Museum of Art, Bolivia (2008), Kiosko Gallery, Bolivia (2008), SIART Biennial, Bolivia (2007), FotoEncuentro Photography Biennial, Bolivia (2007), The National Museum of Ethnography, Bolivia (2007), The Ricardo Palma Cultural Center, Peru (2006), William Siegal Galleries, Santa Fe (2005), Art for Change, New York City (2005).