DIANA WALKER

Photographer
TIME Magazine

Diana Walker's first photographs for TIME appeared in the magazine in 1976. She became a contract photographer for the magazine in 1979, doing general assignments. After covering Walter Mondale's presidential campaign in 1984, she became one of TIME's two White House photographers covering presidents Reagan and Bush. On the White House beat, she has traveled widely, photographing summit meetings, diplomatic missions and international crises.

Walker was the first photojournalist allowed to spend a day inside the White House with President Bush. The result was the exclusive 22 image photo essay, "A Day in the Life of George Bush," which appeared in TIME in May 1989. Her photographs have also graced the pages of Paris Match, Vanity Fair, People, Life, New York Magazine, and other major publications. In addition to her news photographs, she has covered important newsmakers including Vladimir Horowitz, Steve Jobs, and Corazon Aquino, TIME's 1986 Woman of the Year.

A graduate of Briarcliff College, where she majored in drama, Walker spent ten years in the retail dress business before deciding to pursue a career in photography -- her life-long hobby. After photographing everything from weddings and bar mitzvahs to book jackets and portraits, Walker began freelancing for the Washington Monthly, theVillage Voice, Business Week and Fortune Magazine, prior to joining TIME.

Walker's work has garnered prizes and awards from the White House News Photographers Association, the National Press Photographers Association and the Page One Awards. She was the 1990 recipient of a first prize award from World Press Photo for her photograph of George Bush with the troops in Saudi Arabia. Currently, she is one of a three person team of TIME photographers covering the President, Hillary Clinton and the White House.

A native of Washington D.C., Walker still lives in the nation's capitol with her husband, Mallory, and has two sons Taylor, 28 and Willy, 27.