Peter Southwick

Associate Professor of Photojournalism

BA, Harvard College

Peter Southwick spent nearly 30 years as a working photojournalist before joining the Boston University faculty as director of the Photojournalism Program in 2002. He served as director of photography and photo editor at the Boston Globe for 10 years following a decade as a staff photographer for the Boston bureau of the Associated Press, where he won numerous national and regional awards for his photography. Prior to his years at the AP, Southwick worked as a staff photographer for the Boston Herald-­American and did freelance assignments for Newsweek, Time, and Boston Magazine. He has served as judge of the Hearst Foundation national college photojournalism competition, and participated in programs of the Poynter Institute, the Eddie Adams Workshop, and the Stan Kalish picture-editing workshop. Southwick is an active member of the Boston, New England, and National Press Photographers associations, and serves as faculty liaison to the BU Center for Digital Imaging Arts.