Javier Griffey (b. 2000) is a photographic essayist whose practice moves between personal archives, documentary methodology, and material intervention to investigate what the photograph keeps and what it loses, and whether the failure to cross that distance fully might itself be a form of truth. He is a 2026 Keystone Award Fellow at the Silver Eye Center for Photography. He holds an MFA from the School of the Arts at Columbia University (2025) and a BA in Studio Art from Moravian University (2023, cum laude).