About Carey

As a filmmaker, Carey is a regular collaborator with director Terrence Malick, for whom he was an associate producer and editor of  The New World, assisted cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki on  The Tree of Life (winner of the Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or), and provided additional photography on  The Voyage of Time.  As a director and cinematographer his 10-part documentary series Tibetan Stories can be seen here.

His first book of photography,  The New Arcadians, is an ethnographic memoir of Scouting and summer camps in America and a call to revalue all those institutions that connect young people to nature and wild places.  Currently, he's at work on a new personal project,  Literary Landscapes, which explores the natural histories and real geographies captured in literary fiction.  Novels currently included within the series are:  Watership Down by Richard Adams and  My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.

He holds a masters degree in forestry/landscape ecology, is a certified Master Naturalist and licensed guide in New York state, and a certified Interpretive Guide by the National Association of Interpretation.  He lives in New York City where in his spare time he can be found leading tree tours in Central Park or escaping to the Adirondacks.