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The Center Awards: Environmental Award: Alex Welsh - LENSCRATCH

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Center Awards: Environmental Award: Alex Welsh - LENSCRATCH

The CENTER Awards recognize outstanding images, singular or part of a series. The Environmental Award recognizes work focusing on the state of the environment. Topics may include, but are not limited to, conservation, biodiversity, ecology, climate change or other issues concerning the natural world. Congratulations to Alex Welsh for being selected for CENTER’s Environmental Award

via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/05/the-center-awards-environmental-award-alex-welsh/

The most compelling for me was Alex Welsh’s Salton Sea. His series on California’s largest lake—now drying under climate-driven drought—blends documentary rigor with poetic imagery to turn a local crisis into a global parable.

Alex Welsh, the SFPD, Shield Law and the Responsibilities of a Photojournalist « Prison Photography

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Alex Welsh, the SFPD, Shield Law and the Responsibilities of a Photojournalist

THE DOCUMENTS OF A PHOTOJOURNALIST Last April, San Francisco’s Superior Court played host to legal wrangling between the San Francisco Police Department and a young aspiring photojournalist. …

via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/alex-welsh-the-sfpd-shield-law-and-the-responsibilities-of-a-photojournalist/

Legally, this is a very interesting story and ethically it is quite troublesome. Obviously, we don’t know the exact nature of Welsh’s digital files from Friday April 17th. We don’t know if his images held information pertinent to the case. Whether he did or not is of no consequence if you look at this case from only a legal argument position.

The Visual Student » Documenting Hunters Point: Alex Welsh

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Alex Welsh is a 2009 graduate of San Francisco State University with a B.A. in photojournalism and minors in history and Middle Eastern studies. Welsh recently won gold in the Documentary category of the 64th College Photographer of the Year competition for his work in Hunters Point.

Link: The Visual Student » Documenting Hunters Point: Alex Welsh