Chicago, IL, USA
4 reviews$450 - $1500 / Day
Patricia Nabong is a visual journalist who is dedicated to breaking stereotypes, covering untold stories and serving communities through visual journalism. She is currently a photojournalism fellow at City Bureau, a civic journalism lab in Chicago. In the past, she worked as a fellow at The Medill Justice Project, where she produced an interactive visual investigation of Washington D.C.’s vacant properties, which was a finalist for the 2017 Peter Lisagor Award. She was also a student fellow at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, which funded her short documentary and photo essay about the psychological toll of the drug war in the Philippines. Her photos, articles and videos have appeared in the American Documentary Film Festival, The Weather Channel, Seeker, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader, Chicago Defender, WBEZ Chicago, City Bureau, Narratively, The A.V. Club, The Riveter, Climbing Magazine, Balitang America and Medill Reports, to name a few. She is one of the 2018 nominees for the World Press Photo Foundation's Joop Swart Masterclass. She earned her master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism where she received the Harrington Award for Videography/Broadcast. She also won a Chicago College Emmy for a video she produced there. Prior to starting her graduate studies at Medill, she worked as a freelance multimedia journalist for online news sites Rappler, Union of Catholic Asian News and ABS-CBN News and as a part-time photography teacher at St. Paul College, Pasig. She graduated summa cum laude as the batch valedictorian of the class of 2015, with a degree in Film from the College of Mass Communication of the University of the Philippines. She is a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, the national journalism honor society; the Photojournalists’ Center of the Philippines; and the Tokwa Collective.
March • 2018
Pat was an excellent asset for our documentary! She is professional, and exceptionally talented with her camera. I appreciated Pat’s ability to be flexible, change direction quickly and adapt to every scenario. Overall Pat is a fantastic producer and storyteller.
August • 2018
Pat was incredibly thorough, communicative, and a great interviewer.
Produced for The Weather Company/weather.com
A documentary about the Flood of '93 and James Scott, who was convicted of "intentionally causing a catastrophe."
Produced for Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
The drug war in the Philippines has claimed thousands of lives, but its casualties aren’t only the dead. For surviving families, especially those who witnessed the brutal murders of their relatives, the aftermath takes an intense emotional toll. And because there are multiple barriers to accessing mental health resources in the country, many find themselves alone in the aftermath.
Meyers Ace Hardware has two kinds of customers: those who buy paint for their walls and those who “listen to the walls.” For decades, hundreds of tourists and curious souls in search of jazz relics have been visiting the neighborhood store in Bronzeville. It has preserved remnants of what it used to be—the Sunset Café, a famous jazz club in the 1920s to ’40s.
Produced for Brut
The First Heavy Metal Church of Christ in Dayton, Ohio reaches out to society's outcasts and encourages people to come as they are.
Inspired by their experiences, Parks and Amado decided to create Sending in Color, a group that aims to make climbing more accessible, create a community, and introduce the sport to climbers of diverse backgrounds.
New Pine Valley Restaurant, which has been in the North Lawndale community for over 50 years, is most famous for its $1.35 cheese burgers. But customers said what makes the food special isn’t the ingredients. It’s the people who make them. Inconspicuously tucked inside a green, vintage building on the intersection of South Pulaski Road and 16th Street, the restaurant served North Lawndale residents like Martin Luther King, Jr. Customers said the warmth of the owner, fondly called “Mama Lou” by her customers and employees, is what keeps them coming back. And to many residents of the neighborhood, she is what makes this mom and pop diner home.
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