Bert Fox’s 34-year career in journalism began as a cub reporter in northern Utah, and took him through Oregon as a photojournalist, to Philadelphia as a picture editor and art director, onto National Geographic Magazine as a picture editor and most recently he is the Charlotte Observer’s director of photography.
His honors include being named “Picture Editor of the Year” five times by the University of Missouri in its annual Pictures of the Year competition. Last year the Observer was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Public Service Journalism for its stories and pictures chronicling America’s home foreclose crisis. In 2007, his summer intern, Travis Dove, was named College Photographer of the Year, by the University of Missouri.
In the decade prior to arriving in Charlotte he was a picture editor at National Geographic Magazine where he edited over 90 stories, and worked with photographers such as Alex Webb, Lynn Johnson, Randy Olson, Reza, Jim Richardson, Robb Kendrick and many more. His stories ranged from camel caravans across the Libyan Desert to a 70-page cover story celebrating 50 years of mountaineering on Mt. Everest.
Before joining National Geographic he was a picture editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and an art director for the Inquirer’s Sunday magazine. He has participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop for 15 years. He is also the director of photography for “Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change,” a ten-year documentary photography project that explores the complex issues behind child labor.