Elaine Cromie: Environmental portraits, early voting, + MSU photojournalism students
- Oct 22, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 18, 2025
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
