Tara Pixley

Tara Pixley, PhD, is a queer, Jamaican-American visual journalist and media innovation strategist whose visual work frames race, gender, climate futures, LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities through a solutions lens. 

Her work has been published by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Apple, The North Face, NPR, Newsweek, The Atlantic, HuffPost, Allure, ProPublica and ESPN, among many others. 

Pixley is a Fulbright Specialist in Visual Media and has been named a Reynolds Journalism Innovation Fellow; Pulitzer Center Grantee; IWMF NextGen Fellow; World Press Photo Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative grantee; and a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard. 

Pixley previously served as Vice President of National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), and currently serves on the Boards of Stocksy United and Photography Ethics Centre. She is Associate Partner/co-Founder of Aegis Safety Alliance and Executive Director/co-Founder of Authority Collective — an organization dedicated to establishing access and equity for marginalized visual storytellers in media industries. She co-authored the 2025 book Critical Photojournalism: Contemporary Ethics & Practices with Judy Walgren.


World Press Photo Involvement:
Speaker at The Stories That Matter, part of the World Press Photo Days 2026

Tara Pixley on Social Media:
Instagram: @tlpix