The Compelling Image

Michelle Woodward

Michelle Woodward is the photo editor of Middle East Report, a magazine respected for its independent analysis of events and developments in the Middle East. She is also a freelance photo researcher and has worked as a stringer photographer for AFP in Amman, Jordan, and as a freelance photographer providing images to travel guidebooks, magazines and books on the Middle East. However, she finds that her best photographs are often those taken of the odd things that interest her such as industrial ruins, urban details and things in decay, which she exhibits occasionally. She also writes and conducts research into historical and contemporary photography of the Middle East. Last year she was based in Beirut, but now she is back home in Baltimore. She is also teaching a photography class in Baltimore through Odyssey: Liberal Arts Programs for Adults at Johns Hopkins University.

To learn more about Michelle's work, please see her website or visit her blog.