Jeffrey Marqusee is a photographer and scientist. He has photographed since the late 1960s. He holds a PhD in chemistry from MIT and spent much of his career working on environmental, energy and climate change issues.
He first went to Mustang in Nepal in 1979, at age 25, while he was doing his PhD. He came back in 2014, after he turned 60, to finish the trek through Upper Mustang that he had started 35 years earlier. In 2014 he worked with a Canon DSLR. The two bodies of work became The Last Refuge of Tibetan Buddhism, a self-published photobook of 112 pages printed by Kozu Books. It pairs his photographs with poems by the Tibetan poet Jetsun Milarepa.
His second photobook, Photographic Poetry: Leaves of Grass (self-published, 2025, 122 pages), pairs 47 of his photographs with poems by Walt Whitman.
