Allison Shelley is an independent documentary photographer who specializes in women’s health and justice issues worldwide. Her work is regularly featured in publications like National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Al Jazeera America, Fortune and The Guardian. She collaborates with non-profit and corporate and organizations such as the United Nations Foundation, NPR, the ACLU and the Hewlett Foundation, to create dynamic, image-forward campaigns.She is co-founder and co-director of the non-profit Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW), recent adjunct faculty member of the graduate programs of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and at the Corcoran College of Art and Design at George Washington University, and former director of photography/chief photographer for Education Week newspaper and staff photographer for The Washington Times. Allison is an outspoken advocate for journalist safety, a nine-time grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and a fellow of the International Women's Media Foundation, the White House News Photographers Association, and the International Reporting Project. She is currently working on a long term portrait reportage project on the rapid self-urbanization of Haiti’s newest city.Allison is based in Washington, D.C. and is available for editorial and commercial assignments domestically and internationally.Specialities: documentary photography, photojournalism, editorial, portraiture, non-profit photography, corporate photography
Listed skills include Digital Photography, Photojournalism, Photography, Editorial Photography, and 19 others.
