Alec Jacobson

Photographer, Writer

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Location: Burlington, Vermont, USA

Nationality: American

Biography: Alec Jacobson is a photographer and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, who likes to dive deep into slow-moving stories. Drawing on his studies in Anthropology, French and Arabic at Amherst College, he prefers to be the only... MORE

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Copyright Alec Jacobson 2024

Date of Work Jun 2011 - May 2013

Updated May 2019

Topics Documentary, Editorial, Essays, Health/Healing, NGO, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Travel

In 2012 and 2013, I produced a series of books for Danbury Hospital to document the places where they hoped to set up rotations for University of Vermont medical students. Additionally, I spent a summer working for Imaging to World to document their revolutionary ultrasound project that used portable technology to empower rural medical practitioners in Uganda.

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