Bruce Thorson

Associate Professor of News-Editorial

Contact:
234 Andersen
402.472.8279
bthorson2@unl.edu

Bio
Bruce Thorson spent 25 years in newspaper photojournalism as a photographer, photo editor, mostly in Oregon, and director of photography at the St. Paul (Minn) Pioneer Press. An award-winning photographer, Thorson has received recognition from the Associated Press, The Best of the West competition and the National Press Photographers Association. His photographs have also appeared in Sports Illustrated, People Magazine, USA Today, Oregon Business, Nebraska Life and various other publications.

Thorson teaches photojournalism - basic digital photojournalism, advanced digital photojournalism and in-depth photojournalism projects, taking students twice a year on international documentary projects.

He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and a master's degree in visual communications from Ohio University.

Outside of his teaching duties, Thorson continues to stay active as a photographer working as a contract photographer for a sports newswire picture agency supplying his sports photographs to editorial outlets around the world.

Including sports photography, Thorson enjoys documentary photography of people, their culture, their relationship to the environment and the social impact on their lives.

Early in his career as a photo lab technician at the Eugene Register-Guard, Thorson was mentored by Brian Lanker, a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist and a two-time winner of the prestigious Nation Press Photographers Association Photographer of the Year award.

Curriculum vitae available upon request.