Alison Wright is a documentary photographer based in New York. She has spent a career writing and capturing the universal spirit of man through her photographs. Her photography is represented by Danita Delimont and National Geographic Creative and has been published in numerous magazines including National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, Smithsonian Magazine, Islands, Natural History, American Photo, Forbes, Time, The New York Times and Oprah. For many of her projects Alison has traveled to the remotest regions of the world where he photographed endangered people and cultures while documenting issues concerning the conditions of humans. Alison has photographed for a number of books. In 2000, her life was nearly cut short during a dreadful bus accident in a jungle road in Laos.
Her memoir chronicles this moving story of survival and years of healing, and her ongoing determination to recover and continue traveling the world as a fearless photojournalist. Alison is a has won the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award two times, and also received the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography, and in 2013 she was named the National Geographic Traveler of the Year. This was for the recognition of the fact the she travels with a sense of purpose and passion. She loves what she does and says if she were to choose a career again, she would not have to think twice before choosing photography. She takes even some complicated assignments that many photographers would no accept and she completes the assignments within the stipulated time and budget, often to the surprise of her client.
