Kurt Mutchler
National Geographic Picture Editor

A 10-year veteran picture editor at National Geographic magazine specializing in science, Kurt has produced 14 cover stories for the magazine. From wide-ranging topics such as life beyond earth, the war in Iraq to the mechanics of our Sun, Kurt relishes in the challenge of producing the visual content for the magazine. He currently is an adjunct professor at the Corcoran College of Art + Design teaching photojournalism. He recently edited the 126-page collector’s edition magazine, Exploring Space, the Universe in Pictures.

Stories in the past year:

July 2004: Sun Bursts: Hot News from Our Stormy Star
June 2004: The End of Cheap Oil
May 2004: Hanoi: The Soul of Vietnam
January 2004: Mars: Is There Life in the Ancient Ice?
September 2003: Iraq: A Photographer’s Diary
June 2003: Baghdad Before the Bombs

A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University, Kurt’s background includes the deadline world of stringing for the Associated Press to working as a staff photographer and picture/graphics editor at The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he won numerous photography and editing awards before moving on to National Geographic.

Kurt has also won numerous awards for editing since joining the magazine in POY for editing portfolio and single stories. The last was in 2003 for Baghdad Before the Bombs.