about: Bio
Karen Ducey is a documentary and commercial photographer based out of Seattle, WA. With over 20 years professional experience she has produced news, sports, feature, portraits and business assignments for print and online clients. She excels at meeting urgent deadlines, enterprising ideas, and dedicating time to long term projects. She has experience in all aspects of production whether on location or in the studio, high key or low key lighting, or photo and video editing skills.
Her work has appeared around the world including NationalGeographic.com, Time, GEO, ABC News, Marketplace Public Radio, the Seattle Times, Newhouse News, Alaska magazine, New York Times, Alaska Fishermen's Journal, the Anchorage Daily News Sunday magazine, as well as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where she was a staff photographer for six years, following four years on staff at The Indianapolis Star.
Her photography and multimedia work has been honored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) community service photojournalism award , DART Coverage of Trauma, Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism on Children & Families, Best of the West, Newspaper Press Photographer’s Association-Best of Photojournalism, Society of Press Journalists, Society for News Design, and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
In 2011 she received a fellowship from the Knight Digital Media Center, News Entrepreneur Bootcamp at the University of Southern California, and directed a documentary short film, When the Lights Go Out" screened at the Seattle International Film Festival.
She is a current member of the Newspaper Press Photographer Association, the Zino Society, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Online Journalist Association, the American Society of Picture Professionals and Hub Seattle for social entrepreneurs, from where she operates her photography business out of Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle.
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.