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Wright Langley (January 10, 1935 — August 12, 2000) was an American photographer, journalist, and historian.

Born William Wright Langley, Jr., in Tarboro, North Carolina, he became fascinated with photography when the family moved to the small tobacco and cotton farming community of Four Oaks, North Carolina. With a homemade darkroom, he began hiring out as a photographer and documenting life in the community. He left to attend Rochester Institute of Technology, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustrative Photography in 1957. It was a golden era at RIT: Minor White and Ralph Hattersley  were teaching, and among Langley’s classmates were Pete Turner, Bruce Davidson, Richard Zakia, Irving Pobboravsky, Carl Chiarenza, and Jerry Uelsmann.

Langley was an Army photography instructor at Ft. Monmouth], New Jersey] from 1957-1959. In 1958, he married Joan Knowles, a member of a pioneer [[Key West, Florida family who was a fourth generation “conch” .   Fascinated by the islanders’ use of turtle as food and the pens of green turtles at the Turtle Kraals, Langley signed on for one of the last voyages of the turtle schooner A.M. Adams. In 1960 he documented the trip of the "Adams" from Key West to the crew’s home in Grand Cayman to the coastal waters of Honduras and Nicaragua, where the turtles were caught.  Langley received a Master of Science degree in Journalism from Boston University in 1964 for his photojournalistic thesis Capturing Green Turtles off Nicaragua.