Lewis Marien is originally from Decatur, Illinois. A 2015 graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, he has been the staff photographer at The Manhattan Mercury, the newspaper of Manhattan, Kansas, since July 2022.

Marien first started out with two internships between August 2015 and January 2017; The Register-Mail in Galesburg, Illinois and the Journal Star in Peoria, Illinois. His first full-time job was at The Pantagraph in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, from April 2017 to September 2020.

When not at work, Lewis has been a railroad documentarian through video (an ongoing project since 2008), usually posting results to YouTube. His older brother is Evan Marien, an award-winning musician who lives in the New York City area.

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