Carlos Javier Ortiz is an American director, cinematographer and photographer.
Ortiz works with photography, experimental documentary films and text, projection projects and specializes in long-term documentaries that focus on urban life, gun violence, race, poverty and marginalized communities.
His work is in collections including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York and the Library of Congress in D.C.. His work has appeared in: The Atlantic, The New York Times,[1] Newsweek,[2] The Washington Post,[3] Time, NPR, The Guardian, and Stern.
Oritz is an adjunct lecturer at UC Berkeley and is represented by Jenkins Johnson Gallery, (San Francisco/New York).
Ortiz is working on a cross-cultural youth violence project, which documents adolescents in Chicago,[5] and Guatemala.