Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose career has spanned 30 years and includes assignments in over 50 countries. He has shot cover stories for TIME, Newsweek, and Fortune, among others. He has been a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated, a staff photographer at LIFE, and is 23-year contributor to the National Geographic.
Joe was listed by American Photo as one of the 100 Most Important People in Photography and described by the magazine as “perhaps the most versatile photojournalist working today.” He has been honored as a member of Kodak-PDN Legends Online, as well as being a Nikon Legend Behind the Lens. In 2010, he was voted as one of the 30 most influential photographers of the decade in an industry wide Photo District News survey. McNally won numerous other awards as well, such as the first Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Journalist Impact and has been honored by Communication Arts, PDN, Graphis, and others.
In the aftermath of 911, using the world’s only life-size Polaroid camera, McNally created a project called “Faces of Ground Zero,” which traveled through 2002, became a book, and helped generate approximately $2 million for the relief effort.
His fine art work is represented by the Monroe Gallery of Santa Fe, and his prints are in numerous collections, most significantly the National Portrait Gallery of the United States.
He shot the first all-digital coverage in the history of the National Geographic, called “The Future of Flying,” a 32-page cover story commemorating the centennial observance of the Wright Brothers’ flight. The coverage was deemed noteworthy enough that it has been incorporated into the archives of the Library of Congress.
In the past few years, McNally has written three books, “The Moment It Clicks,” “The Hot Shoe Diaries,” “Guide to Digital Photography,” and a fourth, “Sketching Light,” will be out later this year.
He shot the first all-digital coverage in the history of the National Geographic, called “The Future of Flying,” a 32-page cover story commemorating the centennial observance of the Wright Brothers’ flight. The coverage was deemed noteworthy enough that it has been incorporated into the archives of the Library of Congress.
In the past few years, McNally has written three books, “The Moment It Clicks,” “The Hot Shoe Diaries,” “Guide to Digital Photography,” and a fourth, “Sketching Light,” will be out later this year.
