Meet The TEAM

Sam Comen

Photographer Sam Comen is “best known for his environmental portrait essays that feature evocative California locales. As a documentary photographer, he has long focused on themes of American identity, community-building, immigration, democracy, and social justice.” —Taína Caragol, National Portrait Gallery, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History.

His work has twice been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, is held in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA,) and he is commissioned by brands and magazines internationally.

Prior to ‘Unhoused,’ Comen’s The Longest Shift, documented essential workers at the height on the pandemic in still photographs, motion portraits, and intimate first-person interviews with the essential workers who’ve remained on the front lines of pandemic epicenter Los Angeles. 

Most recently, in Winter 2022, his Working America project launched a five year national tour which will bring the printed and video work to cultural institutions throughout the country.

Learn more at samcomen.com or on Instagram. 

Aaron Schrank

Aaron Schrank is a journalist and audio producer based in Los Angeles. For the past decade, he has reported on homelessness for local and national public radio news broadcasts and programs. Schrank is a freelance podcast producer and current showrunner for CBS News’ Mobituaries with Mo Rocca