On June 15 New York based documentary photographer Alison Wright spoke about her career built on capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs. Influenced by her years of living in Asia, her powerful work documents the traditions and changes of people and cultures throughout the remotest regions of the world.

Wright’s  life was nearly cut short on January 2, 2000  by a horrific bus accident on a remote jungle road in Laos. Alison's recent memoir, Learning to Breathe; One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival,  chronicles this inspirational story of survival and years of rehabilitation, and her ongoing determination to recover and continue traveling the world as an intrepid photojournalist.

Wright's photography is represented by National Geographic and published in other worldwide periodicals such as National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Islands, Smithsonian, American Photo, and Natural History. A recipient of the Dorothea Lange Award in Documentary Photography, Alison is also a two-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Award Travel Journalism Award.

Her writing and photographs have been published in her books, Faces of Hope, Children of a Changing World, The Dalai Lama, A Simple Monk,  and The Spirit of Tibet, Portrait of a Culture in Exile  as well as through the Discovery Channel Photo Journey Series.

Monday, June 15 at 6:30 pm
Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center
281 Park Avenue South at 22nd Street
New York City
$10 members
$20 non-members
$5 students
Networking after the presentation, light refreshments