Scott Wallace with Brazilian police, on assignment in the Amazon, 2002
Below: Scott Wallace on assignment in Baghdad, 2003
Bottom: On assignment in Badakshan, Afghanistan, 2004
 

Scott Wallace is a writer, television producer and photojournalist with more than 20 years experience covering international and national affairs. His assignments have taken him from the remotest corners of the Amazon to the clandestine arms markets of Russia, from the North Slope of Alaska to the sweltering rice paddies of southern Bangladesh.

A graduate of Yale University and the Missouri School of Journalism, Wallace began his career in El Salvador in 1983 as a radio correspondent for CBS News and a writer/photographer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. For the next seven years, Wallace specialized in frontline reporting on the wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama, writing for Newsweek, the London Independent and Manchester-London Guardian.

Since the early 1990s, he has worked as a magazine writer and photographer, while producing in-depth network news magazine programs on war, international organized crime, indigenous affairs, and the environment. His writing has appeared in National Geographic (cover story, August 2003), Harper's, Sports Afield, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Newsweek, Interview, The Nation, and the Village Voice among many other publications. His photo credits include: National Geographic, Outside, Details, Interview, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has produced in-depth television magazine reports for CBS News, Fox News, CNN, New York Times/Video News International, and the National Geographic Channel.

Wallace is a contributing editor at National Geographic Adventure, where his exclusive report on the controversy surrounding anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon and the Yanomami Indians of the Venezuelan Amazon appeared in the April 2002 issue. As a recipient of a Ford Environmental Reporting Fellowship that same year, Wallace covered the crisis of illegal logging in the Brazil's Amazon region for National Geographic Television, then undertook a three-month expedition into the land of an uncontacted Indian tribe for National Geographic Magazine. His account of that journey appeared as the cover story of the August 2003 issue (see articles section). It was ranked second out of 90 stories for the year in National Geographic's Readers' Poll.

During the past two years, Wallace has reported from around the world -- following the 82nd Airborne to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, pursuing kidnappers and fedayeen commanders with U.S. advisors and Iraqi Police agents on the streets of Baghdad, and witnessing efforts to lift women out of poverty in rural Bangladesh. He has accompanied young women loan officers into the labyrinthine hillside slums overlooking Aden, Yemen to visit impoverished women entrepreneurs struggling to make a living for their families. Scott was contracted in 2004 by the World Bank to document Bank-financed projects around the world. His travels took him to Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Tanzania, Eritrea, Yemen, Bulgaria, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. His photographs from that extraordinary journey can be viewed in the photo gallery of this website and at www.worldbank.org/dev360.

In the late summer, fall of 2004, Wallace undertook a new National Geographic assignment as writer on an expedition into the remote Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan's Badakshan Province. The expedition covered 600 miles on foot, horseback and yak in the course of two months, reaching the border of China before turning back. The story is scheduled for publication in late 2005 or early 2006.

Wallace has presented slide lectures and instruction on writing, photography, and current affairs on campuses and at civic meetings across the U.S. and overseas. His traveling exhibition of photographs and text, Salvador-Nicaragua: Two Faces/One War, is available for gallery and museum display. His latest exhibition, "Baghdad, USA: Recent Photojournalism from Iraq," appeared at the Banning+Low Gallery, Kensington, MD in 2004. Wallace is planning a forthcoming exhibition featuring work from his recent round-the-world assignment.

To book an assignment, lecture, workshop, or exhibition, and to find out more about how Scott Wallace can make your classroom or event come alive with richly illustrated, personal tales of high adventure and political relevance to the times we live in, please go to the contact page on this website.