Ashleigh (2020)
From the series: "We Are Worth Everything: Survivors as Themselves"
Professor Judy Walgren
I am the Michigan State University School of Journalism Associate Director and a Professor of Practice in non-fiction visual storytelling. I am also a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, photo editor, executive producer, curator and visual artist. I have worked on visual staffs at the Dallas Morning News, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post as a photojournalist and photo editor and I served as the Director of Photography for the San Francisco Chronicle, where I led a team of award-winning photojournalists and filmmakers. In 2016, I received an MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and began my exploration into the relationships between photography, historic archives and power structures. In 2022, along with my colleague, xtine burrough, I published Art as Social Practice: Technology for Change, a book that highlights the work of community-engaged artists and their work, with Routledge Press in 2022. I am currently working on another book for Routledge with my colleague, Tara Pixley, on the ever-evolving practice of photojournalism to be published in 2024.