Ako Salemi is a San Francisco Bay Area photographer, filmmaker, and visual storyteller.

His work moves between documentary storytelling and fine art photography, exploring place, memory, light, environment, and human experience.

Featured in Time, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, VOX & Time Lightbox

IDFA Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival Award Winner

Pulitzer Center Photojournalism Fellow

FMoPA Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Award Winner