James Wellford is a Senior Photo Editor for Global Issues at National Geographic Magazine. Previously he was Editorial Director at Visura.co and a contributing photo editor at Foreign Policy, CNN, and Smithsonian Journeys. He was the International Photo Editor at Newsweek Magazine for 12 years and is a Knight Wallace Fellow from University of Michigan. His collaborative work with photographers has received top honors from the Overseas Press Club, World Press Photo, POYi, American Photo, Visa Pour L’image, PX 3, and NPPA. He has served on the juries of the Magnum Emergency Fund, the Tim Hetherington Trust Award, the PhotoPhilanthropy Awards, Visa Pour L’image, POYi, the Aperture Paris PhotoBook Award, the Overseas Press Club and was a member of the 2012 World Press Masterclass in Amsterdam. He is on the advisory board of the Photobook Museum and the Social Documentary Network and is co-founder of ScreenProjects, an organization working on ways to create, support, and deliver powerful visual and narrative stories around the world.