Claire Bangser

Background

About Claire Bangser

I have worked as a full time photographer and short filmmaker since mid 2012. My work - spanning commercial and editorial projects - is centered around telling human stories powerfully. In February 2014, I started the popular New Orleans street portrait project NOLAbeings and have interviewed well over people in New Orleans alone. Since then, my work has been featured by a wide range of media, including National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME, Wired, Glamour, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon's DP Review, Le Parisien Magazine, Thrillist, New Orleans Magazine, TEDx, Vox, Country Roads Magazine and Cornucopia Magazine.I lead trips every summer for National Geographic Student Expeditions, where I teach filmmaking and photography to high school students abroad. I have led trips to the Mediterranean (2013), the French and Swiss Alps (2014-2016), Iceland (2016), and New Zealand (2017). In 2016, Amazon's Digital Photography Review sent me on assignment on the Mississippi Blues Trail to field test the new Olympus Pen-F, and made a film about the journey which you can see below!Since 2020, I have continued to work with a range of editorial and commercial clients, but have focused a significant portion of my time to working with LCMC Health, a six-hospital healthcare system in New Orleans, to tell stories of their patients and providers through film.