Joanne Rathe Strohmeyer

Joanne Rathe Strohmeyer is an Assistant Chief Photographer at The Boston Globe, primarily assigning photo coverage. She began at The Globe as a staff photographer and has covered a wide variety of assignments from the Northwest Frontier of Pakistan documenting Afghan refugees to the Northwest territories of Canada photographing the winter ice road. She has covered strife in Nicaragua, both apartheid and post apartheid South Africa, the Olympics and presidential campaigns, along with daily metro assignments. She has been awarded the World Press Photo Children’s Award for work from South Africa, The United Nations World Hunger Award for a photo essay on Rural Poverty in New England and has received multiple prizes from the National Press Photographers Association and Boston Press Photographers Association. She began at the Globe in 1985. Prior to the Boston Globe, she worked at the Boston Herald and The Springfield (MA) newspapers. Strohmeyer is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication.