Photographer Allison Shelley will host a community lecture on Thursday, April 11, in the screening room of McEwen Communications Building. The event begins at 7 p.m.
Allison Shelley, an independent documentary photographer, will host a community lecture in the School of Communications on Thursday, April 11. The Pulitzer Center grantee will highlight her work focusing on women’s health and justice issues worldwide, from Denmark and Haiti to Nepal. Her work has been published in TIME magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Washington Post and elsewhere.
The 7 p.m. lecture will be held in the screening room (room 013) of McEwen Communications Building. During her two-day visit to Elon, Shelley will also meet with communications classes and student journalists.
Based in Washington, D.C., Shelley is the co-founder and co-director of Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW), a former staff photographer for the Washington Times, and previous director of photography for Education Week newspaper. She has received awards and grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Press Photographers Association, the White House News Photographers Association and the Society for News Design, among others.
Her past work with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has involved investigating the au pair exchange program between the Philippines and Denmark, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s past projects in Haiti, Nigeria's abortion crisis, and the reproductive health care for women in rural Nepal.
Shelley's 2017 project, “Canaan: Haiti's Promised Land,” tells the story of a Haitian community rebuilding following a 2010 earthquake. An image Shelley captured as part of the project was named the grand prize winner of the 2017 FotoWeekDC Competition.
Elon is one of the Pulitzer Center’s more than 30 Campus Consortium partners, an educational initiative that brings Pulitzer Center staff and journalists to Elon’s campus twice a year. With Elon’s membership in the consortium, students have the opportunity to work with the center on developing international reporting projects, which have been featured on the center’s website and can be disseminated through media partners.
Thanks to the Pulitzer Center Student Fellowship, Cammie Behnke ’19 spent nearly two weeks in January examining the evolution of women in post-genocide Rwanda.