Miss Porter’s School

The Lucile Thieriot Walker ’31 Teaching Chair

Sophie Paris graduated from Colgate University with an Honors degree in Studio Art, with a concentration in Photography. Sophie is a Photojournalist, who worked for clients including the United Nations, Bill Gates Foundation, Yele Haiti, UNDP, Corbis, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Miami Herald, Newsweek, Getty, AP and Reuters from 1998 to 2012. Sophie also traveled with Hillary Clinton during her primary run for US President as her personal photographer from 2007-2008, after which she attended the One Year Full-Time Certificate program studying Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography in NYC. In 2004, the UN sent Sophie to Haiti to photograph the political insecurity, within days her love for Haiti was ignited, and she decided to make her home in a seaside fishing village where she lived until moving to Farmington in 2012 to join Porter’s faculty. Sophie’s Haiti work has been widely exhibited in Haiti, New York City, and Geneva and it has been published in several books.