Phyllis B. Dooney is a social documentary visual storyteller. Phyllis has an MFA from Duke University’s Experimental & Documentary Arts. Her work has appeared in Lightfield Festival, Click! Photography Festival, The New York Times Magazine, American Photo, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Prison Photography, The Oxford American and elsewhere. Phyllis attended Eddie Adams XXVII and was awarded first place for The Center’s Editor’s Choice Prize in 2015. She was a Screen Projects mentee, highlighted in the 4th annual New York Times portfolio review and, more recently, a runner-up in British Journal of Photography’s Breakthrough Awards 2017. Her first photography book, published by Kehrer Verlag in 2017, "Gravity is Stronger Here" was awarded Honorable Mention by The Center for Documentary Studies’ Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize.