Collection: Medford Taylor

Medford Taylor was born in Conway, North Carolina in 1939. He received a BS from High Point University. After five years as a naval officer he attended the Univ. of Missouri Photojournalism Workshop. The workshop was a life-changing event. At its conclusion, he knew he would be a photographer for life. In 1968 he left the Univ. of Missouri Graduate School of Journalism to photograph the Poor People’s March from it’s beginning in Marks, Mississippi. He then joined the staff of the Houston Chronicle and later was staff photographer at the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk. 

Since 1974 he has worked on assignment for TIME Magazine, Newsweek,

GEO, Air & Space Magazine, Historic Preservation, National Geographic Magazine and National Geographic Traveler. His photographs have been published in books and periodicals thru out the world. He has received awards from the Virginia News Photographers Assoc., the White House News Photographers Assoc. and the Slover Award from the Virginian Pilot. He published his first book, Saltwater Cowboys: A Photographic Essay of Chincoteague Island in 2002

Medford joined the faculty at Sweet Briar College in 2016. He lives on campus and teaches photography in the Studio Arts department.