Tara Pixley is a 2016 Knight Nieman Visiting Fellow, is a Los Angeles-based visual journalist, writer, and professor with 15 years of experience as a photojournalist and photo editor for news media. Her writing and photography has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, ProPublica, and the Black Scholar. She is a co-founder and board member of Authority Collective, an organization dedicated to diversifying perspectives in visual media.
On June 7, 2020, hundreds of people gathered on Hollywood Boulevard to protest the extrajudicial killing of George Floyd and the ongoing public health crisis of police brutality in the United States. Amidst the throng … Read more
A young boy named Charlie pauses on his tricycle beside his backyard pool, mouth agape in a wail as his father grabs his half-naked mother. Two-year-old Memphis sobs as … Read more
A tall man—handgun tucked in his waistband and face wrapped in a shirt leaving only his eyes visible—stares at the journalists staring at him. He is looting a Ferguson, Missouri gas station during protests of Michael Brown’s shooting by police. Read more
