Billy Weeks has worked as a photojournalist for over 35 years. He began his career in 1984 at the Chattanooga Times as a staff photographer. In 1999 he became the Director of Photography/ Graphics at The Chattanooga Times Free Press. In 2010 he became an independent documentary photographer. Today when he is not teaching photojournalism at UTC and Southern Adventists University, he is a contract photographer for The New York Times, Associated Press and Reuters News Services. As a photojournalist, Weeks has covered assignments that range from the World Series to small villages in Central America and Asia. His photographs have won numerous awards. His work has been exhibited at the New America Foundation in New York City, Hunter Museum of American Art, Art of Photography Show, Slow Exposures, South x Southeast, and several universities. He has been a visiting speaker at many universities and a presenter at several photojournalism workshops. He believes that not only should journalists cover their assignment, but should also give something back to their profession. He says “documentary photography and photojournalism are visual sociology. It’s images that tell the stories of people and our environment.” He has traveled the world from conflict zones in the Middle East to the jungles of Central America. His has worked in Haiti just after a major earthquake, and he has floated down the Mekong River in a long boat looking for the spread of waterborne disease with a health-based NGO. Weeks will explore the importance of journalistic photographs being fair to the subjects of those photographs. He will talk about his images and the stories behind them. Today he lives in Ringgold, Georgia with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs.