Andrea Morales

Andrea Morales is a documentary photographer, journalist and educator born in Peru, raised in Miami, now living and working in Memphis, Tennessee. She works as the creative director at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit newsroom that reports on stories in Memphis from the intersection of power, poverty and policy. Her personal photographic work attempts to lens the issues of displacement, disruption and magic through everyday life. She has worked as a photojournalist in newsrooms small and large, such as The Concord Monitor, The Lima News and The New York Times, with equal enthusiasm. She’s also worked at the University of Mississippi’s Southern Documentary Project in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. She received a BS in Journalism and a certificate in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, an MA in Visual Communication at Ohio University, and an MFA in Documentary Expression from the University of Mississippi.