{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} '''Jon Pack''' is an American photographer based in New York City. Pack is known as a photojournalist and street photographer, and for his work as an on-location still photographer for film and television productions.
==Career== While watching the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Pack became interested in the afterlife of the venues constructed for the Olympic Games. He told CNN, "All the coverage was talking about how much money was being spent on the Olympics in Beijing. It was so surprising that instead of talking about the athletes or the sports, they were talking so much about the facilities and amount of money."<ref>{{cite news|title=Remnants of glory in former Olympic cities|work=CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/09/sport/cnnphotos-olympic-city/index.html|accessdate=August 13, 2020}}</ref> Pack began traveling to host cities to photograph former Olympic venues in Autumn, 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Impact and Legacy of the Olympics on Host Cities|work=Time Magazine|url=https://time.com/4440535/olympics-host-cities/|accessdate=August 13, 2020}}</ref> "I want to see what hosting the Olympics does to a city," Pack said in an interview with ''The Atlantic''. "Both the good and the bad: how it instills a sense of national pride, how it can help a city find incredible new ways to use its own space, how it can be completely overshadowed by events like war or economic collapse, and how it can create modern day ruins in the midst of places that are otherwise bustling."<ref>{{cite news|title=What Happens to Places That Were 'the Center of the World for Two Weeks'?|work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/07/what-happens-to-places-that-were-the-center-of-the-world-for-two-weeks/277905/|accessdate=August 13, 2020}}</ref>
In 2012, Pack began collaborating with filmmaker Gary Hustwit and announced ''The Olympic City'', a documentary photography project that would look at former host cities of the Olympic Games and how the events had impacted those cities.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gary Hustwit On The Fate Of The Olympic City, After The Games End|work=Fast Company|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1669946/gary-hustwit-on-the-fate-of-the-olympic-city-after-the-games-end|accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref> The first phase of the project looked at 13 cities, the resulting photographs were published in a hardcover book in 2013.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Olympic City|isbn=978-0989532105}}</ref> The photos were also shown at museums and galleries including Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York,<ref>{{cite web|title="The Post-Olympic City"|work=Storefront for Art and Architecture|url=http://www.storefrontnews.org/programming/exhibitions?c=&p=&e=486|accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref> the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center,<ref>{{cite web|title=The Olympic City|work=Atlanta Contemporary|url=https://atlantacontemporary.org/exhibitions/the-olympic-city|accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref> the Brooklyn Museum of Art 2016 exhibit "Who Shot Sports?"<ref>{{cite web|title=Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present|work=Brooklyn Museum|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/who_shot_sports|accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref> and the SFMOMA 2024-2025 exhibit "Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/get-in-the-game/ |access-date=2026-04-19 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US}}</ref> Hustwit and Pack have stated that this is an ongoing project and that they are continuing to photograph additional cities around the world.<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Project|work=olympiccityproject.com|url=http://www.olympiccityproject.com/about|accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref>
On November 13, 2015, Pack was in Paris during the terrorist attacks, and took photos of the aftermath.<ref>{{cite news|title=Paris Under Attack: Shootings, Bombings Rock the City With Dozens Dead|work=Conde Nast Traveler|url=https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-11-13/paris-attack-shootings-bombings-dozens-dead|accessdate=August 11, 2020}}</ref>
In 2020, Pack collaborated with writer Mathias Svalina on ''The Depression'', a book of poetry and photographs described as "a surreal and shifting deep-dive into clinical depression".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Depression|isbn=978-1951628024}}</ref>
Pack works as a still photographer on film and television productions, including ''While We're Young'', directed by Noah Baumbach, ''Past Lives'' directed by Celine Song, and the TV series ''Severance'', ''Search Party'' and ''Broad City''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jon Pack IMDB page|work=IMDB.com|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6754601/|accessdate=August 11, 2020}}</ref>
==Publications== * ''The Olympic City'' with Gary Hustwit, foreword by Michael Kimmelman, 2013.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Olympic City|isbn=978-0989532105}}</ref> * ''Victory Journal'' Number 12, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aftermath|work=Victory Journal|url=https://victoryjournal.com/stories/aftermath/|accessdate=August 11, 2020}}</ref> * ''The Depression'' with Mathias Svalina, 2020.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Depression|isbn=978-1951628024}}</ref>
==External links== *{{IMDb name|nm6754601}} *[https://www.instagram.com/jnpck/ Jon Pack on Instagram] *[https://jonpack.com/ Official website]
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