Melissa
Farlow is currently a freelance photographer contributing to
National Geographic magazine for the past 11 years. Previously, Farlow
was a staff photographer at The Pittsburgh Press, the Courier-Journal
and Louisville Times. While in Louisville, she was part of a team that
won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for photographic coverage of public school
desegregation. Farlow’s worked in three African countries for Women
in the Material World, a book comparing women’s roles in different
cultures. She photographed in Chile, Peru and Mexico for a book on the
Pan American Highway and is currently working on a Geographic book on
U.S. public lands to be published in the fall. Her images have won multiple
awards in the Pictures of the Year competition. Farlow received her B.A.
in journalism from Indiana University and her masters from the University
of Missouri where she also taught photojournalism. She has been a faculty
member at the Missouri Photo Workshop, the Center for Photographic Studies
in Louisville and the Anderson Ranch of Fine Arts in Aspen. |