ABOUT

Angela Jimenez is visual storyteller based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she is a photo editor for The New York Times and does independent photography and video work.

Angela has been doing projects and assignments for journalism outlets and non-profit organizations through her company, Angela Jimenez Photography, for over 20 years. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, she started her career interning at The Arizona Republic and the Newark Star-Ledger, then spend 15 years living and freelancing in New York City for the Ledger and The New York Times.

She has crowd-funded and self-published two photo books: Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (2009), about the worker community of one of the oldest and largest lesbian-feminist gatherings in the world, and Racing Age (2017), a collection of essays and photographs about competitive masters track & field athletes age 60 and older.

Racing Age won the Jury Prize at Photoville’s 2014 The Fence exhibit. In 2018-2019, with the support of an Arts Tour grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, an exhibit of Racing Age toured senior centers in Minnesota accompanied by community engagement workshops taught by Angela.

She has taught photojournalism & multimedia to graduate students in the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and to art majors at Nassau Community College.

Her work has been honored by the Magenta Foundation, American Photography, Review Santa Fe and the Communication Arts Photo Annual, supported by grants from The Alexia Foundation student award, The Puffin Foundation and the Aspen Institute/Pluribus Project, and acquired into the permanent collection of the Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay & Lesbian Art.