Matthew Cassel

Biography

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.” — Lewis Wickes Hine Matthew Cassel is an independent visual journalist and documentary filmmaker based in the Mediterranean region. For more than two decades, his reporting has focused on people affected by conflict, displacement, and political upheaval across the Middle East and beyond. […] Since 2023, he has reported extensively from Israel/Palestine for The Guardian, The New York Times, Channel 4 News, BBC, and ot...