Jared Ragland (MFA, Tulane University) is a fine art and documentary photographer and former White House photo editor. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Photography at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. His visual practice critically confronts issues of identity, marginalization, and history of place through social science, literary, and historical research methodologies.
Jared is the photo editor of National Geographic Books’ "The President’s Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office," and he has worked on assignment for NGOs in the Balkans, the former Soviet Bloc, East Africa, and Haiti. In 2015, Jared was named one of TIME magazine’s “Instagram Photographers to Follow in All 50 States.” He is a 2020 Magnum Foundation grantee, 2020-21 Do Good Fund Artist-in-Residence, 2021 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 artist, 2022 Aftermath Project Finalist, and 2022 Utah State University Caine College of the Arts Researcher of the Year.
