Jeanie Adams-Smith For the past seven years Jeanie Adams-Smith has been a professor in the photojournalism department at Western Kentucky University, one of the top college programs in the country. Jeanie is an award-winning photojournalist and has published three books of her photography. Jeanie’s multiple awards range from Kentucky Photographer of the Year in 2006 to first place in Pictures of the Year International for a multimedia piece of children of divorce.
In the past year-and-a-half Jeanie has traveled to Cuba, documenting the everyday lives of people in Old Havana and farming culture in Western Ireland. Her work has won her several regional and national awards. Currently she is working on a book project, The Doorways of Old Havana, that will feature her work from Cuba.
Before coming to Western, Jeanie was a photo editor at the Chicago Tribune. Most of her time was spent as the National/Foreign Picture Editor, which included researching and assigning photographs for the national and foreign bureaus and working on many of the Tribune’s special projects, including Killing Our Children, a year-long documentary on the children murdered in Chicago in 1993, that won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Journalism.
