The Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) is pleased to announce that Dennis Chamberlin has joined its team as Director of Photography. Chamberlin, along with the staff of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, received a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for coverage of a devastating Indiana flood in 1982.
Chamberlin will coordinate all of FERN’s photographic work, hiring photographers as needed, and editing their images in concert with FERN’s publication partners. He shot the images for “A River Runs Through It,” Paul Greenberg’s story with FERN partner The American Prospect.
“We’re very lucky to have someone of Dennis’s caliber join FERN as Director of Photography,” said FERN’s Editor in Chief, Sam Fromartz. “Until now, we’ve largely been coordinating images on our own, without the expertise we’ve needed. With Dennis at the helm, we look forward to presenting exciting images for our future stories, multimedia works, and slide shows.”
Chamberlin, who is an associate professor at Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, has worked as a staff photographer for the Denver Post and as a freelance photographer, based in Poland, for National Geographic, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, TIME magazine, and others. He continues to shoot stories for publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and various magazines in the U.S. and abroad.
We look forward to sharing more visual story telling with you in the months to come.