Osceola Refetoff

Photojournalist and Curator / Photographer

Osceola Refetoff’s environmental photojournalism is regularly featured on PBS SoCal’s multi-Emmy-winning Artbound, and publications like The Guardian, The New York Times, and The New Republic, earning Los Angeles Press Club awards for Best Feature Photo (2019, 2023), Photo Essay (2018, 2019, 2020), and Photojournalist of the Year (2018). His desert window series “It’s a Mess Without You” is a British Journal of Photography’s OpenWalls Arles outstanding series winner. Recently returned from an artist residency in Svalbard, near the North Pole, his current residency at Building Bridges Art Exchange will investigate global sea level change in collaboration with Dr. Eric Larour, supervisor of NASA’s Sea Level and Ice Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Osceola’s fine art photography is represented by Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles and Melissa Morgan Fine Art in Palm Desert, California.

Photo credit: Marlene Picard