Lee Cohen is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work focuses on overlooked or contested spaces and explores how people live alongside slow-moving change. After more than a decade working internationally in documentary photography and education—including with USAID and NGOs across Asia and Africa—he shifted his practice entirely to analog photography in 2020. Working in black-and-white 35mm, 120, and 4x5 film, he prints in the darkroom at the International Center of Photography, where he is also a teaching assistant. His current long-term project, The Underbrush, documents the transformation of the abandoned Rockaway Beach rail line in Queens, NY—a site of political, ecological, and civic tension.