Brittany Greeson, Author at The GroundTruth Project

Brittany Greeson

Born in Houston, Texas, Brittany Greeson spent the majority of her childhood between the great heights of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina and the rolling hills of Western Kentucky. Growing up in the South taught her to appreciate the quirks and little instances of beauty in the world. She is a photojournalist based in Detroit, Michigan. She has interned for The Oregonian, The Roanoke Times, The Flint Journal, and The Washington Post. Her work has been recognized by the Hearst Foundation, the Scripps Howard Foundation, College Photographer of the Year, the National Press Photographers Association, and the Kentucky News Photographers Association. She has also had the privilege of working with Reuters, The New York Times and CNN. In 2014 she was an International Photojournalism student at The Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark. She is a graduate of Western Kentucky University where she received her degrees in Sociology and Photojournalism. She has been featured as an Emerging Photographer with GroundTruth for her coverage of the Flint water crisis. In 2017, she was a fellow with GroundTruth on the Crossing the Divide reporting project.

Photography

Uprooted: Life after the mines

It was July 1, 2019, and David Pratt Jr., a fifth-generation coal miner living in Linefork, Kentucky, was...

Sep 08, 2021

Photography

Essential Appalachia

Most days since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Alexis Batausa has laced up his running shoes and headed for...

May 06, 2021

Season 6 |Episode 1

Unheard in Appalachia

This season of the GroundTruth Podcast opens with Unheard in Appalachia, part of Crossing the Divide, a project...

Sep 20, 2018

Fuels monitoring assistant Emily McCrea, 23, watches over a prescribed burn by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire just outside of Elmo, Mont., on Tuesday, October 24, 2017. McCrea was one of only two women working on the burn site that day. Tribes used prescribed burns long before European settlers arrived. Burns are made using a quilt technique that serves as a barrier preventing more intense fires from spreading. (Brittany Greeson/GroundTruth)

Photography

The next generation

Tre’ana Taylor, 17, in the bedroom she shares with her sister and niece at her home in Springfield,...

Jan 25, 2018

Omar Naré runs through a song prior to his show, VIVO: A Chicano Performance, at the BitWise, a tech hub with a long, rectangular theater in downtown Fresno, California, on Saturday, November 11, 2017. (Photo by Brittany Greeson with Prisma filter)

Season 5 - The New American Songbook |Episode 5

Nuevo Mariachi

Nuevo Mariachi: Nuevo Mariachi (Photo by Brittany Greeson with Prisma filter) By Qainat Khan|November 16, 2017|@QNK11 Listen to...

Nov 16, 2017

Democracy

Kentucky

Kentucky: Introduction Kentucky is the second of five reporting legs of Crossing the Divide. In the heart of...

Oct 11, 2017

Back row: Mahlia Posey, Eric Bosco, Gabriel Sanchez, Rachel Cramer and Brittany Greeson are the reporting fellows for Crossing the Divide. In front: Ben Brody and Qainat Khan are the field producers for the project. (Photo by Rachel Rohr/GroundTruth)

Special Reports

The Team

The Team: 5 reporters, 2 field producers, 1 van Back row: Mahlia Posey, Eric Bosco, Gabriel Sanchez, Rachel...

Sep 16, 2017

Thousands gather outside of the Michigan State Capitol Building for the Women's March on Lansing in Lansing, Mich., on Saturday, January 21, 2017. (Photo by Brittany Greeson/GroundTruth)

Rights

Thousands of Michiganders flock to Women’s March on Lansing

LANSING, Mich. — As the fog lifted over Michigan's capital this morning, thousands of people began pouring out of tour buses,...

Jan 21, 2017

Jody Ebejer, 22, a native of Detroit, poses at his workplace Honest John's in Midtown, on October, 24, 2016. Ebejer is now voting for independent candidate Jill Stein. "People tell me that its really unrealistic, like don't throw your vote away, but I'm like, it's only throwing my vote away if I'm vote for someone who I don't agree with, who I don't feel represents me and my interest," Ebejer said. (Photo by Brittany Greeson/GroundTruth)

Americas

Casting ballots from Flint, Michigan

Casting ballots from Flint, Michigan: 'Sick and tired of seeing people oppressed' Jody Ebejer, a 22-year-old native of...

Nov 01, 2016

Local residents wait in line to pick up Brita water filters at the Flint Fire Department in downtown Flint on January 15, 2016. Following the declaration for a state of emergency, local fire stations began acting as water resource centers, where residents could pick up water filters, lead testing kits and cases of bottled water. (Brittany Greeson/GroundTruth)

A New Light

We Fear The Water: Flint Residents in Their Own Words

While completing an internship at the Flint Journal in Flint, Michigan, GroundTruth Emerging Photographer Brittany Greeson documented the lives...

Feb 08, 2016

Water gushes from a fire hydrant along Harrison Street as part of a system maintenance program with the Flint Water Department thought to clear out potential contaminants from the water mains on Tuesday, May 12, 2015. (Brittany Greeson/GroundTruth)

Health

We Fear the Water: Residents struggle to cope with Flint water crisis

It was April 2014 when, at the push of a button, the Flint River — which hadn’t been...

Dec 23, 2015

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