Alison Wright (photojournalist)

Alison Wright was a documentary photographer, author and public speaker. Wright travelled the globe documenting endangered cultures, people and issues concerning the human condition. She twice received a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the Society of American Travel Writers[1][2][3] and became a Dorothea Lange Fellow in Documentary Photography at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.[4]

In January 2000, Wright was nearly killed in an accident in Laos, when the bus she was riding was hit by a logging truck.[5] Her story of survival has been featured in Outside magazine, National Geographic Adventure, and Yoga Journal,[2][6][7][8][9] and is documented in her memoir, Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival.

After graduating from Watchung Hills Regional High School, Wright studied photojournalism as an undergraduate at Syracuse University[2] and received a master's degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.[3]

Alison was diving in the Azores and had a cardiac episode in March 2022. After a week in a coma she died on 23 March 2022.[10]

Bibliography
  • Human Tribe, a photo book of global portraits (2017)
  • Face to Face: Portraits of the Human Spirit (2013)[11]
  • Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival (2009)
  • Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World (2003)
  • A Simple Monk: Writings on the Dalai Lama (2001)
  • The Spirit of Tibet, Portrait of a Culture in Exile (1998)

References
  1. "The Lowell Thomas Awards". Society of American Travel Writers. 2005–2006. Archived from the original on June 20, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
  2. Bella English (September 29, 2003). "Alison Wright: Her 'Faces of Hope' shows the spirit of children facing huge obstacles". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
  3. Heather Knight (June 23, 2000). "Intrepid Photog Captures Tibetan Culture Alison Wright's work to show at Smithsonian". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
  4. "Dorothea Lange Fellowship : the Fellows". University of California, Berleley. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  5. "Alison Wright". National Geographic Society. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  6. Wright, Alison (May 2001). "If I Can Only Breathe". Outside. Archived from the original on 2010-09-19. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  7. Wright, Alison (February 2005). "The Life That Almost Wasn't". Outside. Archived from the original on 2010-09-19. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
  8. Dan Saelinger. "Everyday Survivors - Alison Wright: Beating the Impossible", National Geographic Adventure, August 2008. Retrieved on July 21, 2008.
  9. "Postcard From the Edge". Yoga Journal. 28 August 2007.
  10. "Alison Wright Death, Documentary Photographer Has Died". Death-Obituary.com. 2022-03-23. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  11. "Face to Face: Portraits of the Human Spirit". American Society of Picture Professionals. American Society of Picture Professionals, Inc. Retrieved August 14, 2015.


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