[troutman]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

While I like the positive accolades, I hate pieces written by free spirited hipster 20-something backpackers. I have no idea why they're taken as gospel for travel articles. Give me a grizzled middle-aged veteran who doesn't spend half their time doing selfies and SnapChats! And I'm a millennial!

This writer also doesn't even have any pictures of Alberta - let alone Calgary - on her advertised Instagram account, even though she appears to making traveling her career. That is suspect.

Resume looks great to me:

http://www.katieorlinsky.com/about

She has spent over a decade as a photojournalist covering news stories and feature assignments all around the world for major publications like The New York Times, The New Yorker and National Geographic. Katie has recieved numerous photographic awards from institutions such as the Art Director’s Club, PDN30, Visa Pour L’image, Pictures of the Year International, and most recently the 2016 Paris Match Female Photojournalist of the Year Award as well as artist grants from the Magnum Foundation, Getty Images, the Howard Buffet Foundation and the Pulitzer Center.


Katie frequently partners with educational institutions and non-profit organizations to pursue long-term personal work such as “Innocence Assassinated,” an award-winning five-year project about the ignored innocents of the Mexican drug war, “Bought and Sold” a collaboration with anti-slavery organization Caritas and The New York Times about sex trafficking in Nepal, “The Women’s War in Mali” a mixed media documentary project supported by The International Reporting Project, Smithsonian Magazine recently exhibited at Princeton University about women in post-conflict Mali, and “Children do not migrate, they flee” a visual essay produced in collaboration with Humanity United that was exhibited in the United States Senate Rotunda. A chance assignment in the Alaskan wilderness in 2014 led Katie to her current focus- documenting the real, human stories of our warming climate today. “Chasing Winter” is a three-year photographic project in progress exploring how climate change is challenging communities across Alaska, and transforming the relationship between people, animals and the land. The work has been published in National Geographic, The New Republic, The Guardian, Paris Match, Marie Claire, Al Jazeera America, The New York Times, Smithsonian, The New Yorker and The Guardian.