Sydney Walsh

Sydney 常娇 Walsh is a Chinese-American photographer available for assignments in Florida and the New York City metropolitan area. Her project From There, To Here addresses the intersection of cultural heritage, personal identity and interracial adoption using mixed media and photography. She also uses photography to explore how politics shape the landscape in her home state of Florida and the wonder of the Loxahatchee River habitat. She is especially interested in exploring the connection between humans and the natural world to document a diverse range of climate change and conservation stories.

Selected Clients and Publications: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, CNN, NPR, NBC News, AARP, NZZ, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Audubon Magazine, The Hechinger Report, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald, among others.

Sydney is a member of Diversify Photo and the Asian American Journalists Association. She holds a BFA in Photojournalism from Corcoran School of the Arts + Design at George Washington University and is an alumna of the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIII and the AAJA Voices Fellowship.

Her work has been awarded and recognized by College Photographer of the Year, National Press Photographers Association, Women Photojournalists of Washington, Lenscratch, The Curious Society, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, American Institute of Graphic Arts, among others. Full CV.