Bio/Tearsheets - CHASE CASTOR

Chase Castor is a documentary and portrait photographer from the Midwest, based in Kansas City, Missouri. He has a BS in Electronic Arts from Missouri State University where he studied capturing, editing and producing audio and visual media.

He takes a documentary approach, capturing events as they unfold. For portraits he has experience in the studio and in the field, specializing in environmental portraits.

Chase is a freelance photojournalist and contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed News, HuffPost, Vice, and local publications and news outlets.

Commercial photography clients include Hallmark Cards, Google Fiber, Advil, Rush Wade, RW2, Native Digital, Trulia, San Jose Tourism, Kansas City Public Library, Powell Gardens, Overland Park Kansas Tourism, Summerhouse Films and more; where Chase contributed portraits, headshots, and photography for client's social media content libraries.

Selected Tearsheets

New York Times: Kansas Abortion Vote Tests Political Energy in Post-Roe America

New York Times: In Kansas, Support for Abortion Rights Didn’t Just Come From the Usual Places

New York Times: Eric Greitens’s Turbulent Political Career Stands on the Brink

New York Times: A Month of Shootings, One on Top of Another

Los Angeles Times: First gay mayor in U.S. didn't expect to be LGBTQ rights icon.

New York Times: Vulnerable to the Virus, High-Risk Americans Feel Pain as the U.S. Moves On

New York Times: A car a minute used to flow through here, but chaos now reigns

The Washington Post: A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world. Kernza perennial grain

BuzzFeed News: Police Departments Are Making Their Own “Cops” Videos Counteracting Police Brutality Depicted On Social Media

DIE ZEIT: Lincoln Kansas Must Grow to Survive. (print pdf here)

New York Times: Skateboarding's Cardinal Rule: Dare to Be You.