Photo of COM building

Peter Southwick

Associate Professor of Photojournalism

BA, Harvard College.

Mr. Southwick entered professional journalism at The Real Paper, an alternative weekly in Cambridge. He next embarked on a freelance career that included work for a variety of publications including Newsweek, Time, and Boston Magazine. He joined the photography staff of the Boston Herald-American in 1978. In late 1980, he accepted a staff photographer position in the Boston bureau of the Associated Press, where he worked for nearly 10 years and received numerous national and regional awards for his photography. He moved back to the newspaper world as photo editor at the Boston Globe, and after two years was promoted to Director of Photography. He has served as judge of the Hearst Foundation national college photojournalism competition, and participated in programs of the Poynter Institute, the Eddie Adams Workshop, and the Stan Kalish picture-editing workshop.

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