Vanessa Charlot, MFA

Assistant Professor of Creative Multimedia

Vanessa Charlot is an Assistant Professor of Creative Multimedia at the School of Journalism and New Media, an award-winning photographer, speaker, filmmaker, curator and United States Army veteran. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of race, politics, culture, and sexual/gender expression to explore the collective human experience. She has worked throughout the U.S., the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. Her photographs have been commissioned by the New York Times, Gucci, Vogue, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Apple, New York Magazine, Buzzfeed, Artnet News, The Washington Post, and other national and international publications.

Professor Charlot has exhibited at the Frost Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, The Women’s Museum of Costa Rica and the National Museum of Anthology in Mexico. Her work is also held in the Library of Congress Collection. Professor Charlot regularly lectures at the International Center of Photography and is the recipient of the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award for 2021. She also leads identity-based and trauma-informed safety trainings for journalists covering war and conflict for media-leading institutions. She was an Emerson Collective Fellow.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Visual representation of Black women and queerness within photography