Gena Asher | Dec. 3, 2007
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| Courtesy photo |
| Photojournalist Gary Bogdon, B.A. ’86, joked with boxer Muhammad Ali when Bodgon was covering an awards ceremony in Orlando several years ago. Both Bogdon and Ali grew up in Louisville. |
Bogdon was a staff photographer at several newspapers before starting his own freelance business. He is a regular contributing photographer to SI, ESPN, Conde Nast and others, and has done advertising work for several companies, including Nike, Disney, Marriott and Tommy Hilfiger.
During his senior year at the School of Journalism, Bogdon was awarded the Ross Hazeltine Travel Scholarship, which he used to visit India to photograph Bombay’s “untouchables,” as the street people were known. His experience solidified his commitment to photojournalism, he said, and guided his later work shooting subjects from orphans in Russia to hurricane devastation to daily events in small communities.
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