Jon Nealon

Jon Nealon is a New York-based artist whose practice uses satellite imagery, 3D spatial reconstruction, and survivor testimony to document and visualize atrocity and contested histories.

Satellite imagery, 3D spatial reconstruction, survivor testimony. Jon Nealon treats documentary filmmaking as a form of evidence. Brooklyn-based and Emmy-nominated, he spent two decades as an editor before redirecting toward investigations built to hold up in courtrooms, not just on screens. His Bucha investigation used geospatial reconstruction to document systematic killings along Yablunska Street. His three-part series for UNITAD reconstructed ISIS mass atrocities against the Yazidi population and others at Tikrit and Badoush using open-source verification and spatial modeling. He's currently completing an MS in GIS at the University at Albany. The through-line: what does documentation actually owe the people it documents?