Ben Brody is Director of Photography for Report for America, providing training and mentorship for corps members and local newsrooms. Brody spent most of his career photographing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, first as a soldier, and later as an independent photojournalist working on The GroundTruth Project's landmark multimedia project Foreverstan.

He holds an MFA in photography from Hartford Art School and is the author of the critically-acclaimed photobooks Attention Servicemember and 300m. He teaches photography itinerantly at Williams College, and developed and led a landmark community photojournalism program for teens in Boston during the pandemic.

Brody also gardens, forages, repairs engines small and large, fells, splits, stacks, and burns firewood, welds, builds furniture, and manages a small publishing company in western Massachusetts.