Hello! This is Helmuth's site.


He works on visual and spatial stories on the The New York Times Graphics Desk.

Previously, a researcher and spatial analyst at SITU Research.

Educated as an architect at The Cooper Union.


Recent Work

  1. Analysis for See the Moments Leading Up to the Nightclub Roof Collapse in Santo Domingo
  2. Spatial analysis for What the Black Hawk Pilots Could See, Just Before the Crash
  3. Gaza Destruction Atlas
  4. Reporting for Gaza in Ruins After a Year of War
  5. Trajectory Analysis in Speculation Swirls About What Hit Trump. An Analysis Suggests It was a Bullet
  6. Spatial analysis, 3D for How the Trump Rally Gunman Had an Edge Over the Countersnipers
  7. Animated arrows for 171,000 Traveled for Abortions Last Year. See Where They Went.
  8. Animated block-pile map zoom for What Ukraine Has Lost
  9. Analysis, reporting for How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours
  10. Reporting for Dozens of Major Bridges Lack Shields to Block Wayward Ships
  11. Emissions of a Real Fantasy shown at BRIC as part of Data Through Design 2024
  12. Analysis, 3D for A Tunnel Offers Clues to How Hamas Uses Gaza’s Hospitals
  13. 3D animated diagrams, reporting for How Did a Boeing Jet End Up With a Big Hole?
  14. Research, production of visuals for What Happened in One of Israel’s Deadliest Attacks in Gaza
  15. Geolocation for Netanyahu Visits Gaza as Palestinians Mourn an Attack That Officials Say Killed Dozens
  16. Reporting, image-making for Seen from Close-up: How the U.S. Open Dials in its Court Speed
  17. Reporting, 3D for The Maverick Design Choices That May Have Doomed Titan
  18. 3D for A Closer Look at the Submersible Lost in the North Atlantic
  19. Diagrams, spatial sequences for Crime Scene: Bucha
  20. Spatial sequences for Death at the Station: Russian Cluster Munition Attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine
  21. Spatial sequences, infographic for After the Strike
  22. Writing, visuals for Myopia and Focus in Event Reconstruction
  23. Visuals for Protest Reconstruction and Kettling Analysis
  24. Diagrams for Operation Siloé Event Reconstruction
  25. Spatial sequences for UNITAD: Camp Speicher Massacre Video