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Joel Preston Smith


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Born: South Charleston, W.Va., 1961

Residence: Portland, Ore.

Work

Communications Consultant, Editor, Writer, Photographer, Illustrator, Teacher (Newspace Center for Photography), Public Speaker (Oregon Humanities)

Publication Credits

Gobshite Quarterly, The Irish Times, The Charleston Daily Mail, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Oregonian, In Good Tilth, Sound Consumer, The Bear Deluxe and others.

In Press: Burned Books (photo series), in the upcoming issue of The Grove Review, and Liberty Revisited, an artist’s handmade book (photographs and text) focused on my hometown, Liberty, W.Va. The book will be published by Vela Noche Press (Portland, Ore.), which launches in March.


Book Credits

Author & Photographer: Night of a Thousand Stars and Other Portraits of Iraq (Nazraeli Press: 2006)

Contributing Photographer: The Green Zone (AK Press: 2009)

Co-Editor: Untidy: The Blogs on Rumsfeld (William, James & Co.: 2005)

Co-Editor: Special Plans: The Blogs on Douglas Feith (William, James & Co.: 2005)

Contributing Photographer: The Library at Night (Alfred A. Knopf: 2006)


Film Credits (photographer)

Le Nerf de la Paix (French Canadian, documentary, directed by Alexandre Kozminksi: 2008)