ABOUT
kristyn ulanday photo
When I was younger my father was constantly asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I never had an answer. One day out of frustration I finally replied, “I never want to stop learning.” He got excited thinking I would join him into his academia but he was far from right. I had five majors in college, from magazine journalism to psychology, but the one constant was the 40+ hours I spent in the photo department of the school newspaper. Finally I took the plunge my senior year and declared photojournalism as my major. As I graduated in that sea of red on that hot May day my father looked at me, in his Boston University paper hat, and smiled. ”You’ll never stop learning,” he said through tears.
I am currently in Ohio working as a full-time staff photographer/writer/multimedia guru at The Ashland Times Gazette. I have held previous positions as an intern at The Lima News, an intern at The Public Affairs Office of Fort Knox, the assistant photographer for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, a photo intern at The Weekly Dig, and staff photographer and photo editor of The Daily Free Press (Boston University’s independent daily student newspaper). It’s a long list full of mistakes and lessons that became experience and coworkers that became family and friends.