Erin Edgerton is currently documenting Charlottesville, Virginia for The Daily Progress since 2019. She has received her BFA in Photography/Film and Media Studies minor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Previously based in Richmond, Virginia, she interned for Richmond Magazine and was the Photo Editor at The Commonwealth Times, VCU’s independent student newspaper. She has been a freelance photographer for Richmond Times-Dispatch and runs her lifestyle photography business since 2013 in her free freetime. Edgerton has chronicled impactful state and local news including the death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Confederate monument rallies and statue removals and COVID-19 impact in the Central Virginia Area. Edgerton has received awards for her sports and feature photography from Society of Professional Journalists’.
Her roommate and good friend, Kayla Walker, who is not a photographer, took this portrait of Erin.
