Jared Ragland
Photographer, Editor, Program Coordinator @ University of Alabama at Birmingham / Based in Birmingham, Alabama
Jared Ragland is a fine art and documentary photographer and former White House photo editor. He currently teaches and coordinates exhibitions and community programs in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama...
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Focus:
Photographer, Photojournalist, Editor, Curator, Writer, Collector, Researcher, Travel, Fine Art, Environment, Illustrator, History
Skills:
Research, Image Archiving, Digital Printing, Graphic Design, Historical Processing, Color Correction, Adobe InDesign, Book Layout/Design, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Mixed Media, Typography, Art Direction, Exhibition Design, Photojournalism, Print Design
About
Jared Ragland is a fine art and documentary photographer and former White House photo editor. He currently teaches and coordinates exhibitions and community programs in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is at work on a long-term documentary on methamphetamine users living in northeast Alabama. He is the photo editor of National Geographic Books’ "The President’s Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office," has worked on assignment for NGOs in the Balkans, the former Soviet Bloc, East Africa and Haiti, and in 2015 was named one of TIME Magazine’s "Instagram Photographers to Follow in All 50 States.†His photographs have been exhibited internationally and featured by The Oxford American and The New York Times. Jared is an alumnus of LaGrange College and a 2003 graduate of Tulane University with an MFA in Photography. He resides in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.
Available for documentary and editorial assignments on: southern culture and history, politics, labor, prisons, immigration, human trafficking, drug use, poverty, social justice, ecology. Also available as a regional researcher/fixer.
Available for documentary and editorial assignments on: southern culture and history, politics, labor, prisons, immigration, human trafficking, drug use, poverty, social justice, ecology. Also available as a regional researcher/fixer.