Alison Wright (photojournalist)

Alison Wright (photojournalist)

Alison Wright (born Summit, New Jersey, 1961) is an American photojournalist and writer.Alison Wright's work is represented by "National Geographic" and Corbis. Her photography of endangered cultures and documentation of the human condition has covered all corners of the globe and been published in magazines world-wide. She is a two-time recipient of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award and the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography.cite web |url=http://www.satw.org/satw/index.asp?Sid=702
title=The Lowell Thomas Awards |publisher=Society of American Travel Writers |year=2005-2006
accessdate=2008-07-21] cite news |author=Bella English |title=Alison Wright: Her `Faces of Hope' shows the spirit of children facing huge obstacles |url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2003/09/29/alison_wright_her_faces_of_hope_shows_the_spirit_of_children_facing_huge_obstacles/ |work=The Boston Globe
date=September 29 2003 |accessdate=2008-07-21] [cite news |author=Heather Knight
title=Intrepid Photog Captures Tibetan Culture Alison Wright's work to show at Smithsonian
url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/23/NB74761.DTL |work=The San Francisco Chronicle |date=June 23 2000 |accessdate=2008-07-21]

Wright was nearly killed in a accident in Laos, when the bus she was riding in was hit by a logging truck. Her story of survival has been featured in "Outside" magazine, "National Geographic Adventure", and "Yoga Journal".cite web
url=http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/200105/200105fieldnotes1.html
title=If I Can Only Breathe
publisher="Outside"
date=May 2001
last=Wright
first=Alison] cite web
url=http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200502/alison-wright_1.html
title=The Life That Almost Wasn't
publisher="Outside"
date=February 2005
last=Wright
first=Alison] [Dan Saelinger. " [http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2008/08/everyday-survival/survivors-text/2 Everyday Survivors - Alison Wright: Beating the Impossible] ", "National Geographic Adventure", August 2008. Retrieved on 2008-07-21.] [cite web|url=http://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/1746|title=Postcard From the Edge|publisher=Yoga Journal] She is the founder of the Faces of Hope Fund, which provides health care and education to communities in Asia. [cite web
url=http://www.alisonwright.com/main.php
title=Faces of Hope Fund]

Wright attended Watchung Hills Regional High School in New Jersey, and studied photojournalism at Syracuse University.

Bibliography

* "Learning to Breathe: One Woman’s Journey of Spirit and Survival", documenting her recovery from the bus accident.
* "Faces of Hope: Children of a Changing World"
* "A Simple Monk: Writings on the Dalai Lama The Spirit of Tibet"

References

External links

* [http://www.alisonwright.com Official Website]
*cite web|url=http://blogs.discovery.com/photo_journeys_wright/|title=Photo Journeys: Alison Wright|publisher=Discovery Channel


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