about: Bio
Karen Ducey is a documentary and commercial photographer based out of Seattle, WA passionate about social enterprise businesses, creative marketing, and multimedia. Her background is in photojournalism but she is transitioning to filmmaking and conceptual visual storytelling. She hopes to work in the interactive multimedia sector as a photographer, filmmaker or multimedia producer.
With over 20 years professional experience she has produced live action, portraiture, and studio photography assignments for print and online clients. Her ability to meet very urgent deadlines, to enterprise ideas, and her dedication to long term projects has created work honored by many national awards. She has experience of all aspects of production on location or in the studio, natural or commercial lighting, and editing skills.
Ducey's pictures have been published around the world including NationalGeographic.com, Time, GEO, ABC News, the Seattle Times, Newhouse News, Alaska magazine, the Alaska Fishermen's Journal, and the Anchorage Daily News Sunday magazine.
Karen Ducey was a staff photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for six years, joining the newspaper in 2003 after working four years at The Indianapolis Star.
Prior to that, Ducey worked as a commercial fishermen in Alaska for almost a decade.
Her work has been recognized by ASNE's community service photojournalism award , finalist for DART Coverage of Trauma, Casey Medals in multimedia, Best of the West, Best of Photojournalism , SPJ, and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
In 2005 she began a weekly photo column that ran in the P-I's metro section for a year. It has since moved exclusively online, where it is independently managed at AnExtraordinaryTime.com
Karen graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BA in political science. Later, she attended the MFA Photography program at the School of Visual Arts for two years. Recently she updated her multimedia skills through programs at the Seattle Community Colleges.
She currently lives in Seattle with her husband, Dean Rutz, and their three beloved dogs.