Ray Di Pietro is a Photojournalist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Historian. Documenting politics, people, current events, and social issues. Work includes assignment work for The Times London, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Free Press, Business Insider and the NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Rex Features/Shutterstock news contributor work includes Time Magazine, The Times London,The Guardian, People, The Daily Beast, ABC News, CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Mail, New York Magazine, New York Post, Semafor, The Independent,The Telegraph and more, as well as contributing to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, Vogue, Hyperallergic, AFAR Magazine, Billboard, Scary Mommy, and locally for The Tennessean, WPLN Nashville Public Radio, Axios Nashville, Tennessee Lookout, Nashville Scene, Nashville Scene Street Style, WNXP, The News, and The Contributor. Work has been shown at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville in the 2019 exhibit, ‘Connect/Disconnect: Growth in the “It” City’ (‘This Doorway Was His Home’ photograph was included on the exhibit signage and catalog cover). Photographs are included in the collections of the Nashville Civil Rights Center at the Downtown Public Library and the Tennessee State Museum, featured in the book ‘The People’s Plaza Sixty-Two Days of Nonviolent Resistance’ by Justin Jones published by Vanderbilt University Press, and the still photographs in the "Tennessee Rise" video by The Tennessee Freedom Singers. Interviews:
NewsChannel5 Nashville "Year in Review: 2020 was a year for social justice" from December 30, 2020
NewsChannel5 Nashville “Photographer Shares Special Connection To McCartney Photography Exhibit” from November 6, 2025
Prime Lenses Podcast Episode 88 - Ray Di Pietro from November 16, 2025
WPLN This Is Nashville “Picturing Nashville: Ray Di Pietro on photographing local history” from December 22, 2025
The Bitter Southerner “Ray Di Pietro: Accidental Historian” by Libby Callaway in Spring 2026 Issue #13
Contact: raydipietro@me.com