Bruce Strong is The Alexia endowed chair and an associate professor of visual communications at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. As a visual storyteller, he is inspired by a desire to bridge cultural divides and focus on our shared humanity, and he welcomes opportunities to work with great people on meaningful projects because life’s too short to do anything else. He has photographed in nearly 80 countries, including Greenland, Montenegro, Chile, Oman, Mauritius, Mongolia, Armenia and South Sudan.
Strong was on staff at The Orange County Register in Southern California for 11 years and has freelanced for a variety of international publications and nonprofit organizations. His work has been published in such prestigious publications as TIME Magazine and National Geographic, and he has earned numerous awards and fellowships — serving as a 2025 Emerging Technologies Faculty Fellow at Newhouse School, a Knight-Wallace Kellogg Public Policy Fellow at the University of Michigan (focusing on the intersection of journalism and the arts to foster community leadership), a Scripps Howard Academic Leadership Academy Fellow at Louisiana State University (focused on developing leadership skills for deans, chairs, and directors in journalism education), a Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Syracuse University, and a Knight Fellow at Ohio University, where he earned a master’s degree in visual communications. He also served as an inaugural VII Foundation visiting scholar at the VII Academy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as the first professional in residence at MediaStorm (then in New York City), after which he became chair of the Newhouse School’s Visual Communications department, a role he held for 10 years.
When he’s not in the field, Strong spends time helping others learn to tell stories that matter. At Newhouse, he teaches video, audio, photography and multimedia, and he serves as The Alexia endowed chair, presiding over its annual international grant competition and other projects. Bruce considers teaching a rewarding and enlightening journey, and he is proud of his students, many of whom have won top honors from NPPA, POY, World Press and BOP, even while still students. He also mentored back-to-back College Photographer of the Year winners Matt Eich and Travis Dove.
Strong has been honored for his teaching as well, including a Meredith Teaching Recognition Award from Syracuse University and the National Press Photographers Association’s Robin F. Garland Educator Award. Strong also has lectured and led workshops for various groups, including NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion Workshop and the Maine Media Workshops, and he has been sent by the U.S. State Department to teach visual storytelling and photography to photojournalists in Ecuador, Oman and Mauritius.
Bruce is most proud of his sons, Jack and Cole, and loves adventuring through life with Claudia, his designer/writer/curator/professor wife.
Bruce Strong is The Alexia endowed chair and an associate professor of visual communications at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. As a visual storyteller, he is inspired by a desire to bridge cultural divides and focus on our shared humanity, and he welcomes opportunities to work with great people on meaningful projects because life’s too short to do anything else. He has photographed in nearly 80 countries, including Greenland, Montenegro, Chile, Oman, Mauritius, Mongolia, Armenia and South Sudan.
Strong was on staff at The Orange County Register in Southern California for 11 years and has freelanced for a variety of international publications and nonprofit organizations. His work has been published in such prestigious publications as TIME Magazine and National Geographic, and he has earned numerous awards and fellowships — serving as a 2025 Emerging Technologies Faculty Fellow at Newhouse School, a Knight-Wallace Kellogg Public Policy Fellow at the University of Michigan (focusing on the intersection of journalism and the arts to foster community leadership), a Scripps Howard Academic Leadership Academy Fellow at Louisiana State University (focused on developing leadership skills for deans, chairs, and directors in journalism education), a Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Syracuse University, and a Knight Fellow at Ohio University, where he earned a master’s degree in visual communications. He also served as an inaugural VII Foundation visiting scholar at the VII Academy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as the first professional in residence at MediaStorm (then in New York City), after which he became chair of the Newhouse School’s Visual Communications department, a role he held for 10 years.
When he’s not in the field, Strong spends time helping others learn to tell stories that matter. At Newhouse, he teaches video, audio, photography and multimedia, and he serves as The Alexia endowed chair, presiding over its annual international grant competition and other projects. Bruce considers teaching a rewarding and enlightening journey, and he is proud of his students, many of whom have won top honors from NPPA, POY, World Press and BOP, even while still students. He also mentored back-to-back College Photographer of the Year winners Matt Eich and Travis Dove.
Strong has been honored for his teaching as well, including a Meredith Teaching Recognition Award from Syracuse University and the National Press Photographers Association’s Robin F. Garland Educator Award. Strong also has lectured and led workshops for various groups, including NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion Workshop and the Maine Media Workshops, and he has been sent by the U.S. State Department to teach visual storytelling and photography to photojournalists in Ecuador, Oman and Mauritius.
Bruce is most proud of his sons, Jack and Cole, and loves adventuring through life with Claudia, his designer/writer/curator/professor wife.