Vaughn Wallace is a photographer and photo editor living in Pittsburgh, Penn. His work has appeared in TIME Magazine, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, NPR.org, The Los Angeles Times and Talking Points Memo.
I am graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in the spring of 2012, where my studies have focused on history, the Middle East and the visual rhetoric and nuance of historical and contemporary photography.
I've completed two summers as an intern at TIME Magazine, where I helped produce more than 140 posts on LightBox, TIME.com's new photography site. I'm currently an intern at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, shooting daily work around the Pittsburgh area while finishing my last semester of school.
My interest isn't limited to photography or journalism, for I am not able to view either without being conscious to the burdens of history. As an editor, I am drawn to images that enhance the spectrum of the world's primary documents, for it isn't enough to produce unique photography with no eye to the visual historical record. The context that history provides for modernity is as important as any photo work being produced today.
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't reading enough," says Tod Papageorge, a sentiment I could not agree with more.
I conduct infrequent interviews on FeatureStory.org, a site I launched earlier this year, and occasionally blog about the rhetoric of news images at SpeakingofPictures.org.
In January 2012, I will be focusing my attention on Past Pittsburgh, a project looking at one of Roy Stryker's most ambitious (and never fully realized) photographic documentary efforts.