Nathan Howard is a Washington, D.C.–based freelance photojournalist whose work regularly appears in Getty Images, The Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He previously served as a staff photographer at The Columbian in Southwest Washington, the Newport News-Times, and the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, and is an alumnus of both the Eddie Adams Workshop and the Missouri Photo Workshop.

His coverage often centers on U.S. politics, the escalating impacts of climate change, and the rise of extremist movements in the American West.