Elaine Cromie: Environmental portraits, early voting, + MSU photojournalism students

We were honored to host Elaine Cromie, Detroit-based photo editor and photojournalist who directs visual journalism for Chalkbeat and Votebeat non-profit news orgs. Previously, Cromie worked as an independent visual journalist contributing to publications including The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Rolling Stone Magazine, Politico, Detroit Free Press and others. Born and raised in Colorado to a mixed Uchinaanchu and Puerto Rican family, Elaine is a graduate from University of Colorado Boulder with a degree journalism.

Elaine worked with students on environmental portraits on campus, focusing on early voters and those who have helped make early voting possible. Here are a few of the images they produced. 

Photo By Alexis Schmidt

By Alexis Schmidt

WKAR volunteer Jan Shoemaker poses for a portrait - By Alexis Schmidt

Elaine Cromie photographs Brant Wells, senior WKAR director - by Megan Basile

Communication Arts & Sciences hosted early voting for the residents of E. Lansing - by Sarah Sholte

By Aubrey Van Artsen

Digital storytelling senior Briggs Maloney takes portraits of early voters (no image credit)

WKAR senior director of station operations Brant Wells poses for a portrait - by Brianna Schmidt

Zoology junior Chapin Magee holds up an “I voted yay” sticker (no image credit)

Workshop Attendee - By Brianna Schmidt

Junior Zoology Student, Chaplin Magee poses - By Olivia Galio

MSU junior, Chapin Magee, shows off her sticker - By Briggs Maloney