Janie Osborne is freelance photojournalist and writer who explores projects about the mountain West and her home state of Montana.
Recent projects have focused on everything from Election 2024 to rural high school girls basketball to destinations untouched by "Yellowstone's" limelight.
A member of Women Photograph, her work has been featured for 17 years by The New York Times, and also by titles such as The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal,
The Guardian, ACLU, Politico, NPR, NBC, and others.
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The Montana State Capitol, an outtake, The New York Times
Commissioned Stories:
"Capturing the Magic of the One-Room School in Montana," writer + photographer, the Guardian, Montana, 2024
"A Whistle-Stop Tour of America" The New York Times, North Dakota + Montana, 2024
Election 2024, Associated Press, August 2024
"The Burger is Portrait of America," The New York Times, 2024
Montana's Rural Schoolhouses, The Big Sky Journal, writer + photographer, 2024
"Renting Forever," The New York Times, Idaho, 2024
"Women Photograph," Host of Instagram Takeover, 2024
A Slice of Big Sky Country That You Won't See on 'Yellowstone," writer + photographer, The New York Times, 2023
"So Thieves Nabbed Your Catalytic Converter,'" The New York Times, 2023
"Facing Tough Senate Race, Montana's G.O.P. Looks to Change the Rules," The New York Times, 2023
“Senator Jon Tester Walks Solid Blue Line in Solid Red Montana," The Wall Street Journal, 2021
"Senator Jon Tester Wants Democrats to Fight for Rural America," The Wall Street Journal,2020
"A Plan to Ban TikTok in Montana is Preview For Rest of Country," The New York Times, 2023
"Capturing the Joyful Spirit of a Montana General Store," The New York Times, writer + photographer, 2022
"A Tangled Tale of Gun Parts, Identity Theft...," The New York Times, 2023
"In Montana, An Avalanche of Wealth is Displacing Workers," In These Times, 2023
"The health care busts that follow mining’s boom-time," Politico, 2023
"After Montana Banned TikTok, Users Sued," The New York Times, 2023
"Facing Tough Senate Race, Montana's G.O.P. Looks to Change the Rules," The New York Times, 2023
American Prairie, A Vast Nature Preserve, "52 Places To Go," writer + photographer, The New York Times, 2023
"A Plan to Ban TikTok in Montana is Preview For Rest of Country," The New York Times, 2023
"A Landmark Youth Climate Trial Begins in Montana," The New York Times, 2023
"The health care busts that follow mining’s boom-time," Politico, 2023
“Residents of Gardiner, Mont. Brace For Struggle After a Flood..." The Wall Street Journal, 2022
"The Fishtail General Store," The Big Sky Journal, writer + photographer, 2023
"Yellowstone Gets a Lifeline After Flood With Revamped Historic Road," The Wall Street Journal, 2022
“Yellowstone Gets a New Road After Summer Flood..." The Wall Street Journal, 2022
"Bozeman Landlords Putting Community Before Raising Rents," writer + photographer, Montana FP, 2022
"A Giant Balloon Floats Into Town," The New York Times, 2023
“They Tried to Shut Down Drag Story Hour. A Montana bookstore fought back," The Guardian, 2022
"How Cash-Strapped Schools are Benefitting From the Sun," The New York Times, 2022
"Big Sky is Sprawling, Luxurious and Pricey, "The New York Times, 2022
"Montana's Most In-Demand Kitchen is Run by Refugees," The New York Times, 2022
"A Passion for Pie," writer + photographer, The Big Sky Journal, 2022
“Who can afford to live in the American West when locals can't?" The Guardian, 2021
"The World Through a Lens," The New York Times, writer + photographer, 2020
"Pandemic Crowds Bring Rivergeddon to Montana,"The New York Times, 2020
“Voices From the Front Lines of America's Food Supply," The New York Times, 2021
“Wildland Firefighters are Depending on GoFundMe to Survive," BuzzFeed News, 2021
"Steven Rinella of Netflix's MeatEater," The Wall Street Journal,2020
"Is The Cure for Covid in the Rocky Mountains?", The New York Times, 2020
"What It's Like to Run a Rural State During a Pandemic," The New York Times, 2020
"The Future of Travel," The New York Times, 2020
"A Once-Powerful Mining Town Awaits Final Cleanup," The Washington Post, 2020
"52 Places to Go in 2020, Glacier National Park," The New York Times, 2020
"Let the Stream Run Through It," The New York Times, 2018
"In North Dakota, Boom, Bust and Oil," The New York Times, 2015
“Can Montana’s Smith River Survive a Nearby Mine?” The New York Times, 2015
"On the Trail of Nabokov in the American West," The New York Times, 2016