Winter 2015 Edition
Alumni & Friends Magazine
Intimate images: Joni Kabana
Professional photographer Joni Kabana embodies the adventuresome Bobcat spirit while traveling the world.
By Kaitlyn Pacheco, BSJ 鈥17 | December 14, 2015
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Alumna Joni Kabana is a visual artist and storyteller who embodies the adventuresome Bobcat spirit while traveling the world as a professional photographer. Kabana, who earned her bachelor鈥檚 degree in psychology in 1979, captured the portrait of author Cheryl Strayed for the jacket of the author鈥檚 best-selling memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Kabana鈥檚 recent work with Mercy Corps, a humanitarian initiative, in India, Nepal, and rural hospitals in Ethiopia garnered her American Society of Media Photographers鈥 鈥淏est of鈥 designations.
Watch and listen as Kabana recounts stories surrounding five of her documentary-style photographs, selected by ohiowomen staff and student writers and designers at OHIO鈥檚 Advancement Communication & Marketing.
Kabana is currently working on magazine, corporate, advertising, and personal projects as well as for non-governmental organizations to stretch her influence across the globe. Her subjects range from rodeo cowboys to people waiting for medical assistance in Ethiopia. Each image she captures represents a story waiting to be told.
