Levi Meir Clancy

I am a researcher and documentary photographer.

Levi Meir Clancy photographed at the Kotel in Jerusalem.
I bring overlooked stories into public life. I do this through photographs, public programs, tools, and source-led research.

The medium changes, but I return to the same question: what deserves public life?

My life shapes how I see and make work public. Jewish life, my Indigenous Okinawan roots, and my experience as a gay man are central to that perspective.

I spent nearly eight years in Iraqi Kurdistan, where I built Museum of Ours and Foundation of Ours, wrote about the region, and photographed it. I now work in the Bay Area.

A woman wearing glasses and a dark blazer stands in directional light against monumental stone.
A portrait against stone. Photograph by Levi Meir Clancy.
A woman in an orange woven head wrap looks directly toward the camera against a dark blue background.
A portrait in an orange head wrap. Photograph by Levi Meir Clancy.
My practice moves across photography, public programs, tools, and research. Each form gives overlooked material a different kind of public life.

Photography

I make documentary, public-life, portrait, and autobiographical photographs.

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Public programs

I create events and exhibitions that gather people around overlooked stories.

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Tools

I build useful forms that put cultural knowledge into everyday circulation.

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Research

I conduct source-led inquiry that distinguishes evidence, context, and interpretation.

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A man with long locs and a blue shirt looks beyond the camera against a neutral wall.
From my portrait practice. Photograph by Levi Meir Clancy.