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Lisa Kunkel is a professional photographer based in Helena, Montana, offering a wide range of services. From freelance photojournalism services to portraits of your newborn baby.
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More about the photographer:
Lisa earned a B.A. in photojournalism from the University of Montana where she graduated in 2004. While in college, Lisa was a staff photographer and photo editor for the school newspaper, The Kaimin, and freelanced for the daily paper, The Missoulian.

After graduation she was a summer fellow at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida before being selected through the Alexia Foundation to study photography for a semester at Syracuse University’s study abroad program in London.

After returning to Montana in January 2005, she freelanced for the Associated Press and The Missoulian. In the summer of 2005 she was hired as a staff photographer for The Montana Standard daily newspaper in Butte, Montana. In the spring of 2008 Lisa moved to be the sports photographer for The Independent Record newspaper in Helena where she worked for two years. Currently she is a freelance photographer and a full-time mother.

Lisa’s work has been recognized by the Alexia Foundation, College Photographer of the Year Awards, Photo District News, The Hearst Foundation, The Montana Newspaper Association and the National Press Photographers Association. Her photos have appeared in numerous publications including Sports Illustrated, Country Woman Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review and Time Magazine. She lives in Helena with her husband J.D. and their daughter Adeline Grace.