Alison Wright

Alison Wright, a social documentary photographer, has spent a career capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs and writing. For many of her editorial and commercial projects, Wright travels to all regions of theglobe photographing endangered cultures and people while covering issues concerning the human condition. She was named a National Geographic Traveler of the Year as someone who travels with a sense of passion and purpose. Wright is a recipient of the 1993 Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography for her photographs of child labor in Asia and was twice awarded the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award.