INFO: About

Leah Nash graduated Cum Laude from Vassar College with a degree in psychology. She then went on to study photojournalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she was awarded a Fulbright Grant to photograph AIDS in India in 2004. After receiving her Master's she moved to Portland, OR in 2005 to freelance.

Awards and Honors include:

Photo District News/ Billboard Year In Music Photography Contest, Best in Category Winner (2009)

Eddie Adams Workshop, Black Team (2007)

The Magenta Foundation's Emerging Photographer (2006)

Photo District News, Photo Annual Winner (2005 and 2003)

Missouri Photo Workshop, Nikon Emerging Professional Scholarship (2004)

Marty Forscher Fellowship recipient for humanistic photography (2003)

NPPA's Kit C. King Scholarship recipient (2003)

College Photographer of the Year (2003)

Award of Excellence Portfolio

Silver Medal Documentary

Silver Medal General News

College Photographer of the Year (2002)

Bronze Medal Portfolio

Bronze Medal Documentary

Gold Medal Personal Vision

Eddie Adams Workshop, winner of The New York Times Magazine assignment (2001)