Don Doll, SJ
Endowed Heider Chair Professor
(402) 280-3035 - dollsj@creighton.edu
Don Doll, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and well-known photographer whose work
has
been featured in National Geographic, [Hunters of the Bering Sea, June
1984,
and The Athabascans along the Yukon, February, 1990] and a number of the
Day
in the Life of... books, including America, California, Italy, Ireland,
Passage to Vietnam, and Christmas in America. He was introduced to both
photography and to the Lakota people when he was assigned to the Rosebud
Reservation in South Dakota as a young Jesuit. Two of his books on Native
Americans are: Crying for a Vision [Morgan and Morgan, 1976, Dobbs Ferry,
NY], and Vision Quest: Men, Women and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation
[1994, Crown Publishers, New York]. His Vision Quest CD-ROM was published
in
1996, and the Vision Quest Exhibit has opened in 18 cities.
In May of 1997, Fr. Doll was awarded the prestigious Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for his many years of work with Native Americans.
Fr. Doll has been active in the National Press Photographers Association. He was a speaker on the 1976, and the 1981 Flying Short Course. He has received special recognition in the Nikon “World Understanding through Photography” Award [1976], the Robin F. Garland Award, [1988], lst Place Magazine Feature in the 1988 Pictures of the Year. And he was a Pictures of the Year judge in 1989. He also served as a faculty member for eight of the annual University of Missouri’s Professional Photojournalism workshops.
Since 1969 Doll has lived and worked at Creighton University, in Omaha, Nebraska, where he is a professor of Fine Arts holding the Charles and Mary Heider Endowed Jesuit Chair. A recent project, “The Jesuits” has taken him around the world. One of his stories from this project, “Finding Ernesto” aired in November, 1999, on ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel. In 2003 he photographed a series of landscape and panoramas of the Lewis and Clark trail between St. Louis, Missouri, and the Pacific Ocean near Ft. Clatsop. Recently, he has photographed the work of Jesuits assisting Tsunami victims in India and Sri Lanka, and the educational work of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Uganda and Southern Sudan.
His work can be see on his website: http://magis.creighton.edu