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[1][2][3] and became a Dorothea Lange Fellow in Documentary Photography at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.[4]
In January 2000, Wright was nearly killed in an accident in Laos, when the bus she was riding was hit by a logging truck.[5] Her story of survival has been featured in Outside magazine, National Geographic Adventure, and Yoga Journal,[2][6][7][8][9] 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[2] and received a master's degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.[3]
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.[10]