Michael O. Snyder

Biography

Michael O. Snyder is a documentary photographer and filmmaker exploring the dynamic relationship between environmental and cultural change. He is a National Geographic contributor, Portrait of Humanity Award Winner, a Pulitzer grantee, a Climate Journalism Fellow at the Bertha Foundation, a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, a recent speaker at the UN Climate Conference, and a resident artist at the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Spring/Summer 2023

The Queens of Queen City

Photography by Michael O. Snyder ,  Essay by Rae Garringer

What Drag Culture Means for the Legacy (and Future) of the LGBTQ+ Community in an Appalachian Town

Iva Phetish backstage at the Embassy Theatre. Cumberland, MD, 2018.
#VQRTRUESTORY / Winter 2017

We All Travel the Milky Way Together

By Michael O. Snyder

The Pizza Deck in Yosemite National Park sells beer for $30 a pitcher—a rip off in almost any situation, and I candidly told the bartender as much. Back at the tent site, my wife, brother, sister, and her boyfriend packed their gear in...