Joshua Meltzer

Josh Meltzer joined the faculty at RIT in 2015 after teaching in the photojournalism program at Western Kentucky University from 2009-2015 as a Photojournalist-in-Residence and Assistant Professor where he taught photojournalism and multimedia storytelling. A native of Athens, Georgia, Josh is a 1995 graduate of Carleton College in Minnesota and received his Masters in Multimedia Communications from the University of Miami in 2013. In 2008, after 9 years as a staff photographer and multimedia journalist at The Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Virginia, Josh accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to photograph and teach in Mexico where he began working on a project about the migration of indigenous families within Mexico. A selection of his work from his Fulbright year won the Grand Prize Professional Award from Photophilanthropy in 2010. He completed this project in 2014 as part of his Master’s Thesis.

He has been a co-coordinator and instructor with the Truth With A Camera workshops in Mexico, Ecuador and Bosnia and has served annually on the staff of The Mountain Workshops since 2009. His still and multimedia work has been recognized by NPPA Best of Photojournalism competition, where he was the 2006 Photojournalist of the Year for markets less than 115,000 circulation, Pictures of the Year International, which recognized a long-term project on those who care for the elderly with the Documentary of the Year award, KNPA, VNPA, Atlanta Photojournalism Competition, Northern and Southern Short Courses and the Society of Newspaper Design. He is also a recipient of the National Press Photographers Association’s Humanitarian Award in 2012 and is a 2014 recipient of the Carnegie Hero Award.