Lauren Walsh teaches at The New School and New York University, where she is the Director of the Gallatin Photojournalism Lab. She is also the Director of Lost Rolls America, a national archive of photography and memory.
Walsh’s most recent book is Conversations on Conflict Photography (2019). She is co-editor of The Future of Text and Image: Collected Essays on Literary and Visual Conjunctures (2012) and The Millennium Villages Project (2016), and photo editor of Macondo: Memories of the Colombian Conflict (2017). She has published widely in mainstream and academic journals and anthologies. In addition to her appearances on CNN, Walsh has appeared as an expert on photography in radio programs and film documentaries.
She is the co-director of Biography of a Photo, an in-progress documentary about two iconic photographs of conflict.
Walsh is interested in the politics and ethics of photography, and in exploring contemporary visual culture. She focuses particularly on photojournalism, with a specialty in conflict photography. Walsh was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from NYU.
