Alison Wright (photojournalist)

Alison Wright was a documentary photographer, author and public speaker. Wright travelled the globe documenting endangered cultures, people and issues concerning the human condition. She twice received a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the Society of American Travel Writers  and became a Dorothea Lange Fellow in Documentary Photography at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.

In January 2000, Wright was nearly killed in an accident in Laos, when the bus she was riding was hit by a logging truck. Her story of survival has been featured in Outside magazine, National Geographic Adventure, and Yoga Journal,  and is documented in her memoir, Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival.

After graduating from Watchung Hills Regional High School, Wright studied photojournalism as an undergraduate at Syracuse University and received a master's degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Alison was diving in the Azores and had a cardiac episode in March 2022. After a week in a coma she died on 23 March 2022.