Melissa Farlow Freelance, Aurora Quanta Productions

 Melissa is currently a freelance photographer contributing to National Geographic magazine. Previously, Farlow was a staff photographer at The Pittsburgh Press, the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. While in Louisville, she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for photographic coverage of public school desegregation. Farlow’s photographs appear in more than 20 books. She spent time in three African countries for Women in the Material World, a book comparing women’s roles in different cultures. Farlow is currently working on a Geographic book on U.S. public lands. Her images have won multiple awards in the Pictures of the Year competition. Farlow received her B.A. in journalism from Indiana University and her masters from the University of Missouri where she also taught photojournalism. She has been a faculty member at the Missouri Photo Workshop, the Center for Photographic Studies in Louisville and the Anderson Ranch of Fine Arts in Aspen.