Photo Credit: Joana Majidova
Taylor Coester is an independent photographer based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is passionate about using visuals to share stories, documenting the otherwise unseen joys and crises around the globe. She has covered immigration and displacement, protests, women and children, rural communities, and sports, among other topics. Human connection and culture is at the center of her photographs and continues to drive her storytelling as she documents the world around her.
Available for Assignments
+13195310581 | taylormcoester@gmail.com
Experience:
Current — Freelance Photojournalist, Boston, Massachusetts
2023 Photo Co-op (Internship), The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts
2021-2024 Staff Photographer / Photo Editor, The Daily Free Press, Boston, Massachusetts
2021 NewsBreak Fellow, NewsBreak, Lisbon, Iowa
Published In:
Reuters, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Atlantic, CNN, PBS, USA Today, European Pressphoto Agency, Brookline.News, Cambridge Day, The Daily Free Press, NewsBreak, and others.
Organizations:
Boston Press Photographers Association Board Member
National Press Photographers Association Member
NPPA Northern Short Course Leadership Team
Founder and President of BU NPPA Student Chapter, now know as BU Visual Journalists Association
Certifications:
2026 HEFAT — Hostile Environment & First Aid Training
2026 Stop The Bleed
Recognitions:
Her photographs have won multiple awards spanning News, Features, Portraits, Sports, and Story categories for BPPA Contest 2023, BPPA Contest 2022, and BPPA Contest 2021.
Education:
Boston University — B.S. in Journalism (Photojournalism)
2025 NPPA Mentorship Program
2024 Conflict & Crisis Reporting in Padua, Italy
2022 Foreign Corresponding Course in Prague, Czechia
2022 Adam Schallau Lanscape Photography Workshop