Loup Langton, Ph.D. Program Director, Visual Journalism

Loup Langton currently serves as Director of the Visual Journalism program at the University of Miami's School of Communication and as a member of the Pictures of the Year International Inaugural Advisory Board. His career reflects a balance between creative and research work with a particular passion for Latin America.

His book, Photojournalism and Today's News, Creating Visual Reality published by Blackwell/John Wiley & Sons examines the ways in which newsroom culture, economics and routines influence visual reporting in both printed and online media. He recently worked as the photographic and design editor for Ecuadorian photographer Pablo Corral's book, "25." He and Corral co-directed the Descubriendo Ecuador book project published in 1994.

As Director of Photography for Copley Chicago Newspapers he helped lead a team that twice produced the Pictures of the Year International Newspaper Photographer of the Year and as Director of Photography for El Universo, he helped change the concept of visual story-telling in Ecuador.

As an educator, Langton was a faculty member at the University of Missouri School of Journalism for six years and has taught photography at Ecuador's Universidad San Francisco. In 2005 he and colleague, Lelen Robert, organized the SomosFoto workshop in Quito, and in 2008 they directed the second SomosFoto workshop in Santo Domingo. The teams of international photographers and photo editors worked with photographers from more than a dozen Latin American countries to produce in-depth photographic essays. Langton has been a guest speaker at Universidad Católica in Quito and Universidad Espiritu Santo in Guayaquil and been a faculty member for photography workshops in Germany, Bulgaria, Argentina, Miami and Ecuador as well as the Missouri Photographic Workshop. He and a team of collagues are currently working with the World Press Photo organization (Amsterdam) to provide interviews of award-winning photographers for the World Press website.

As a member of JB Pictures Langton photographed throughout the U.S., Africa and the Middle East. He was a contributor to the Homeless in America book in 1987, and his work from Haiti, North Carolina and Ecuador appeared in exhibitions in New York and Washington, D.C. Langton received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Texas School of Communication.

Loup Langton
School of Communication
Frances L. Wolfson Building 3022
5100 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305) 284-3028
Fax: (305) 284-3648
E-mail: loup@miami.edu