James Emmerman (born 1993) is a New York City–based photographer whose work spans editorial, fashion, photojournalism, and portrait photography.
[3] Emmerman has shot for The New York Times, Forbes, Billboard, W Magazine, and Vogue and commercially for Nike, Equinox, Dion Lee, and Matte Projects.
In 2019, he directed ChokeHole, a New Orleans–based event thrown by queer nightlife producers Hugo Gyrl and High Profile for Document Journal.
In 2022, he photographed Air Mail's The Downtown Set, a list of the 50 New Yorkers in the arts and culture living and working in Lower Manhattan.
[9] The following year Emmerman photographed line dancing and two-step class, at Manhattan's Georgia Room, and Mike Karnell, a writer and director for "Late Night with Seth Meyers," for the New York Times.