J. Kyle Keener

J. Kyle Keener is a staff photographer at Journal Communications Inc., the custom magazine publishing company based in Franklin. Before moving south he spent 25 years bringing the style of magazine photography to some of the nation's leading newspapers.  At the Detroit Free Press he was the chief photographer for 13 years. During a decade at The Philadelphia Inquirer he traveled extensively covering global news in Africa and the destruction of the Amazon Rain Forrest, for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  He is a six-time winner of the National Press Photographers Association Regional Photographer of the Year.  The international Society of News Design has honored him consistently including a Gold Award for Portfolio. Keener has judged prestigious contests and lectured to photographers from around the globe.  He will showcase his extremely diverse body of work that will take viewers from high fashion studio photo shoots to the desperation of war torn Africa.

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