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Tara Pixley

@tlpix

Tara Pixley is a 2016 Knight Nieman Visiting Fellow, is a Los Angeles-based visual journalist, writer, and professor with 15 years of experience as a photojournalist and photo editor for news media. Her writing and photography has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, ProPublica, and the Black Scholar. She is a co-founder and board member of Authority Collective, an organization dedicated to diversifying perspectives in visual media.

Protest Photography Can Be a Powerful Tool For and Against Black Lives Matter

Protest Photography Can Be a Powerful Tool For and Against Black Lives Matter

If photojournalism wants to draw attention to social injustice, it must also look at the unintended harm photography can cause
Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

A young boy named Charlie pauses on his tricycle beside his backyard pool, mouth agape in a wail as his father grabs his half-naked mother. Two-year-old Memphis sobs as she…
Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color

Why We Need More Visual Journalists and Editors of Color

A tall man—handgun tucked in his waistband and face wrapped in a shirt leaving only his eyes visible—stares at the journalists staring at him. He is looting a Ferguson, Missouri gas…