Amelia Phillips Hale is a passionate visual storyteller who seeks the truth in her subjects. Her work has been recognized both nationally and internationally by POYi, NPPA's Best of Photojournalism competition, WPJA, The Southern Short Course in News Photography, and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. She was 2007 NPPA Region 7 Photographer of the Year Runner-Up and 2007 Arkansas Photographer of the Year.  In 2008 she was one of 100 students selected throughout the world to attend the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York.

After missing the ocean for far too long, Amelia moved back to the Carolina coast in the fall of 2008. She currently works and lives in Charleston with her remarkable husband, Dan Hale, and their wonderfully crazy dogs, Bruester and Ashe.