Jan Sonnenmair is an award winning photojournalist, documentary filmmaker and educator.

She is known for creating life stories and images that speak to the heart of her subjects.

Her love of people and experience photographing life’s joys and hardships, gives her a sensitive eye and unique ability to create a comfortable working relationship with the people she photographs.

In addition to starting her career on the photography staff of the Dallas Morning News, she has photographed around the world for magazines and corporations.

Jan has been the recipient of several awards including the World Press Foundations’ award for Photo Essay for a four-year long project on a child with AIDS.

Jan was honored to be selected as a Knight Fellow at Ohio University.  There she received her Master’s Degree in visual communications as well as began teaching college classes as a complement to her work as a photographer.

Her documentary film “Between the Lines: Photojournalism in the Crossfire” chronicles photojournalists covering the civil unrest in Portland, Oregon in 2020 and was honored at several film festivals including The Toronto International Women’s Film Festival and the Austin International Art Festival

She is currently traveling the USA in her RV with her labrador, Xochi, while documenting current events in the country.

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