Alison Wright (photojournalist)

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Alison Wright was a documentary photographer, author and public speaker. Wright travelled the globe documenting endangered cultures, people and issues concerning the human condition. She twice received a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the Society of American Travel Writers [1] [2] [3] and became a Dorothea Lange Fellow in Documentary Photography at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. [4]

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In January 2000, Wright was nearly killed in an accident in Laos, when the bus she was riding was hit by a logging truck. [5] Her story of survival has been featured in Outside magazine, National Geographic Adventure , and Yoga Journal , [2] [6] [7] [8] [9] and is documented in her memoir, Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival.

After graduating from Watchung Hills Regional High School, Wright studied photojournalism as an undergraduate at Syracuse University [2] and received a master's degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. [3]

Alison was diving in the Azores and had a cardiac episode in March 2022. After a week in a coma she died on 23 March 2022. [10]

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  3. 1 2 Heather Knight (June 23, 2000). "Intrepid Photog Captures Tibetan Culture Alison Wright's work to show at Smithsonian". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved July 21, 2008.
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