Zara Katz

Zara Katz is a photo director and filmmaker for editorial, documentary and branded content, specializing in crafting character-driven visual stories. She is currently the Director of Art and Photography at NBC News Digital. She has contributed work to The New York Times Lens blog, Time magazine, Medium, The Guardian U.S., Pop-Up Magazine and Lifetime/A+E Networks. She was the Senior Photography Producer on a global Getty Images/Dove campaign photographed by more than 100 women and non-binary photographers, which won the Silver Glass Lion at Cannes in 2019.

Katz is the co-director and producer of “A WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE” a feature documentary that premiered at SXSW Film Festival in 2022 and PBS/America ReFramed/World Channel in 2024. She co-created Everyday Incarceration, a collaborative Instagram feed looking at 40 years of mass incarceration in the United States. Katz holds a Master’s degree from CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.