BIOGRAPHY
Missy learned photography as an adolescent from her grandmother during summers she spent in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. After graduating from the University of North Carolina, Missy worked for TIME MAGAZINE and served as an intern for NEWSDAY. In 1995. Missy and her adolescent daughter, Eliza live in Brooklyn, New York and consider themselves southern girls who feel equally comfortable two- stepping at a honky tonk or contra dancing at a formal dance.
ACHIEVEMENTS
- 2013 FLANDERS GALLERY, solo show, Durham, North Carolina
- 2012 HEIRTZ WEITZEN GALLERY, solo show, Charlotte, North Carolina
- 2012 ON THE ROAD WITH JIMMIE JOHNSON
- 2006 MYSELF TOGETHER AGAIN, photography project and book documenting the breast-reconstruction procedure of 30 year-old cancer survivor Debbie Horwitz. Endowed by a Susan G. Komen Grant
- 2007 NBC TODAY SHOW appearance
- 1996 EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP X, a prestigious tuition-free workshop available to student and emerging professional photographers. Enrollment is limited to 100 participants and participants are selected based on portfolio and references. For one week young photographers are mentored by photo editors from prestigious editorial publications including The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine.
- 1994 SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM GRANT received a $500 grant
- 1995 INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRIZE, team reporting 1995 ELECTRONIC PHOTOJOURNALISM WORKSHOP, fellow
- enrolled in the top Journalism Schools in the country.
- 1995 HEARST FOUNDATIONS, national finalist. Ranked 12th in the country in the field of photojournalism students
- 1995 VISUAL ART EXCHANGE, group show, Raleigh, North Carolina
CLIENTS
PRIVATE
Tim & Nina Belk
Crandall & Erskine Bowles
Judy & Jamie Dimon
Joan & Denis Gillings
Janet & J. Frank Harrison, II
Chandra & Jimmie Johnson
Libby Johnson
Tabitha & Stephen King
Suzanne McKinney
Dowd & Webb Simpson
Linnea & Dean Smith
EDITORIAL
MARTHA STEWART LIVING
PEOPLE MAGAZINE
RANDOM HOUSE
FOOD & WINE MAGAZINE
ABC GOOD MORNING AMERICA
THE WASHINGTON POST
MSNBC
CORPORATE
IBM
AMERICAN EXPRESS
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE