Briant Walski

Photographer. Won the California Press Photographers Association's 2001 Photographer of the Year. Walski was born in Illinois and grew up in Chicago. He studied journalism at Northern Illinois University. He has worked as a photographer since 1980 starting his career at the Albuquerque Journal, Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, MA, and the Boston Herald. He spent 12 years on staff at the Herald until he joined the Los Angeles Times in September 1998. During his career as a photojournalist, he covered stories ranging from local news to the Gulf War, the Africa famine, Northern Ireland, the Kashmiri conflict and the crisis in the Balkans. In 2005 Walski relocated to Colorado and founded Colorado Visions Photography, a commercial and wedding photography business.