Alison Wright
New York, NY 10019
Ph: 212-828-6417
Email: info@alisonwright.com
www.alisonwright.com
www.facesofhope.org
www.natgeocreative.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/contributors/w/photographer-alison-wright/
twitter: @awrightphoto
instagram: alisonwrightphoto
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonwrightphoto
Alison Wright, a New York based documentary photographer, has spent a career
capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs and writing. For many of
her editorial and commercial projects, Alison travels to all regions of the globe
photographing indigenous cultures and people while covering issues concerning the
human condition. She has traveled to 150 countries.
Alison is a contributor to numerous outlets, including National Geographic, National
Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Creative, Outside, Islands, CNN, The Travel
Channel, Discovery, Smithsonian, The New York Times and UNICEF. She is a recipient
of the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography for her work on child labor in
Asia, a two-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, an Explorers
Club Fellow and Premier Traveler magazine named her The 2014 Most Compelling
Woman in the Travel Industry.
Alison was named a 2013 National Geographic Traveler of the Year as someone who
travels with a sense of passion and purpose.
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/travelers-of-the-year-2013/alison-wright/
Alison completed her bachelor degree in Photojournalism from Syracuse University and
a Master s in Visual Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, based on
her years of living and working among the Himalayan cultures of Asia. She is a National
Geographic Photo Expeditions South East Asia expert and teaches travel photography
seminars and workshops throughout the world.
Wright has photographed/authored ten books including The Dalai Lama: A Simple
Monk, based on her two-decade friendship with the Dalai Lama, The Spirit of Tibet:
Portrait of a Culture in Exile, Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World,
documenting the lives of children in developing countries, three books for National
Geographic on London, Great Britain and China, and Face to Face: Portraits of the
Human Spirit. Her latest book Human Tribe, is a monograph of global portraits
celebrating the visual tapestry of humanity in all its diversity and splendor.
On January 2, 2000 Alison s life was nearly cut short during a devastating bus accident
on a remote jungle road in Laos. Wright s memoir, Learning to Breathe; One Woman s
Journey of Spirit and Survival, chronicles this inspirational story of survival and years of
rehabilitation, and her ongoing determination to recover and continue traveling the world
as an intrepid photojournalist. The book details her ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro as well as
her circumambulation of Mt. Kailash in Tibet.
As an eminent inspirational public speaker, Alison is affiliated with the National
Geographic Speakers Live series as well as Speaking Matters
(http://www.speakingmatters.org/alison_wright.html). Alison has presented her
captivating stories and photo presentation, along with exhibiting her work, to numerous
schools as well as the Women in Cable Telecommunications, American Museum of
Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Newark Museum, Sony Corporation, The
Explorers Club, Chautauqua Institution, American Society of Media Photographers, the
George Eastman Kodak House, B&H Camera, the Annenberg Space for Photography in
Los Angeles and was a featured speaker in the National Geographic's Live Masters of
Photography Series.
Wright has photographed for a multitude of humanitarian aid organizations with much of
her work focused on post-conflict, disaster relief and human rights issues especially in
the realm of women and children. Wright was based in Nepal for four years documenting
the Convention for the Rights of the Child for UNICEF and worked on a year long project
photographing children in poverty in America for the Children s Defense Fund. Other
clients include BRAC, Women for Women, Nest, Peter C. Alderman Foundation, CARE,
ILO, Save the Children, USAID, SEVA, Direct Relief International, The Children's
Defense Fund, the Global Fund for Children and the Global Fund for Women.
This experience and her work in post disaster/conflict areas inspired Alison to give back
to the communities that she photographs by connecting photography and philanthropy
through starting her own non-profit, Faces of Hope (www.facesofhope.org), a fund
that globally helps support women and children in crisis through education and
healthcare.
National Geographic, Face to Face: Portraits
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/alison-wright-face-to-face-portraits/
National Geographic Proof
http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/18/traveler-of-the-year-alison-wright-pays-itforward/
National Press Photographers Association
https://nppa.org/node/66957
OPTIC2017
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/promotion/13146/optic-events-2017.html
CNN Travel:
http://travel.cnn.com/face-face-portraits-human-spirit-046291
National Geographic Live: Portraits of the Human Spirit
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ng-live/wright-humanity-lecturenglive?
source=searchvideo
National Geographic Live: Wild Tales with Mongolian Nomads
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ng-live/wright-nomads-bonusnglive?
source=searchvideo
National Geographic Live: Poverty on the Homefront
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ng-live/wright-poverty-bonusnglive?
source=searchvideo
National Geographic Live: My Friend, the Dalai Lama
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/ng-live/wright-dalai-lama-bonusnglive?
source=searchvideo
Sorrow in the Land of Smiles: Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand
Social Documentary Network:
http://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Alison_Wright/2427
Can a Photograph(er) Make a Difference?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/b-h-photography-podcast/id1052860428?mt=2
The Basics of Photojournalism:
https://www.worldnomads.com/create/learn/photography/the-basics-of-photojournalism
Photographing for Non-Profit organizations
https://alisonwright.com/photographing-for-non-profit-organizations/ý