Jared Ragland
Caine College of the Arts
Art and Design Department

Faculty Researcher of the Year 

Jared Ragland is a fine art and documentary photographer and former White House photo editor. Incorporating a range of photographic tactics with social science, literary, and historical research methodologies, his visual practice confronts issues of identity, marginalization, and history of place. Jared is the photo editor of National Geographic Books’ The President’s Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office, and he has worked on assignment for NGOs in the Balkans, former Soviet Bloc, East Africa, and Haiti. He is a 2020 Magnum Foundation grantee, 2020-21 Do Good Fund Artist-in-Residence, 2021 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 photographer, and 2022 Columbus State Artist-in-Residence. Jared’s collaborative ethnographic research has been published internationally, including the first photographs to ever be published in the flagship social sciences journal, Criminology. His photographs have also been featured by The New Yorker, New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vanity Fair Italia, and he has exhibited his work across the US, UK, and Europe. His first film, Some Million Miles, is currently distributed by PBS. During his tenure at the White House with the Bush (43) and Obama Administrations, Jared edited photobooks for the President, curated exhibitions in the West Wing, and was part of the editing team responsible for the release of the iconic photographs of President Obama in the Situation Room during the raid on Osama bin Laden.