Hello!
I’m a freelance cinematographer and photographer based in NYC and Baltimore, MD. I am motivated to connect with people, first, and create beautiful imagery, second. My previous role at ProPublica allowed me to translate deep-dive investigations into evocative visual storytelling. I served as the director of photography for Before a Breath, ProPublica’s first in-house feature documentary, as well as for Cookie & Zo’e, which earned a Vimeo Staff Pick, and With Every Breath, which garnered over half a million views. Additionally, Losing Kyle, created during my internship at the San Francisco Chronicle, was honored with a regional Emmy. I’m an FAA certified drone operator and an alum of Ohio University and the Danish School of Media and Journalism.
lizmoughon@gmail.com
423.388.1669
Self-portrait during my cross country move from Portland to Brooklyn.
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Cinematographer | April 2025 — present
ProPublica | Video Journalist | September 2022 — March 2025
Freelance Filmmaker | September 2020 — 2022
Blue Chalk Media | Production Fellow | January – August 2020
Los Angeles Times | Photo Intern | summer 2019
San Francisco Chronicle | Photo/Video Intern | summer 2018
PUBLICATIONS
The Washington Post | Learning to live with diabetes | 2022
The Washington Post | A Hidden Crisis | 2020
National Public Radio | How The World is Reinventing Rituals | 2020 (image #11)
The Wall Street Journal | The People Left Behind in a Broadband World | 2019
San Francisco Chronicle | Finding Kyle | 2018
ACCOLADES
NPPA Documentary Editor | Cookie’s & Zo’e | Second Place
NPPA Documentary Short Form | Cookie & Zo’e | Third Place
Pictures of the Year International | Cookie & Zo’e | Runner Up
The Webby Awards | With Every Breath | Nominee
NPPA Documentary Short Form | With Every Breath | First Place
NPPA Documentary of the Year | With Every Breath | Second Place
Pictures of the Year International | With Every Breath | Runner Up
San Francisco / Northern California Emmy | Losing Kyle | 2020
White House News Photographers Association | The Blind Painter | First Place | 2019