Marcus Gabbert is a documentary photographer and writer from California. For the past four years, they have covered the effects of wildfire, flood, and drought across the central valley and the northern reaches of the state that is commonly touted in the U.S. for its environmental policy and economic production. More recently, they have spent time with those victims of California's housing crisis and punitive policy on homelessness, focusing on the lives of people who live on the street across the Bay Area.

Research is central to the work they do, and they use skills developed in their previous career teaching critical thinking, essay composition, political theory, and literature at the University of California in Irvine. They have produced data visualizetion maps for multiple stories, and use OSINT strategies for news gathering.

Marcus is HEFAT certified, and is currently covering demonstrations against the Trump administration's immigration policy. They are also making long form work about non-traditional soldiers in the Ukrainian Voulenteer Army.