Alan Berner, a native of St. Louis, has degrees in philosophy and photojournalism from the University of Missouri.
He's been staff photographer at The Seattle Times for more than two decades.
Berner has been involved in numerous projects of social concern, including pollution and growth in the Puget Sound region, Seattle's homeless, and coverage of the state's American Indian tribes.
The National Press Photographers Association has named him the Regional Press Photographer of the Year five times.
He is the 1995 recipient of the Nikon/NPPA Documentary Sabbatical grant for his project on the New American West.
He has received the Cowles Cup, the Associated Press Sweepstakes Award for Oregon and Washington, four times.
He has been a faculty member of the Missouri Photo Workshop, the Flying Short Course of the National Press Photographers Association, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Alaska Journalism Week and Western Kentucky's Mountain Workshop.
He has worked on many multi-photographer book projects, including "A Day In The Life of America,"
"A Day In The Life of California," "Descubriendo Ecuador" and "America 24/7."
Berner has worked for five newspapers in his career.
