Alonso Nichols is the chief of photography at Tufts University, an institution he has served for over ten years.  At Tufts, his work has taken him from lecture halls and laboratories to refugee camps and NCAA championship tournaments. Creating personal work has led him down the backroads of Kentucky to the bustling streets of Manila, Philippines.

Alonso earned degrees in Spanish Literature from the University of California at Irvine and the University of Louisville and was on the path to becoming a Spanish professor when he took a summer job in training and development at the Los Angeles Times. While teaching Spanish language to photographers at the LA Times, one thing led to another, and he crossed over to the other side. He studied at New England School of Photography and the Western Kentucky University Mountain Workshops as well as the Kalish Photo Editing workshop.  His work regularly appears in Tufts University publications both online and in print—Tufts Now (now.tufts.edu), Tufts Magazine, Tufts Medicine Magazine, Tufts Nutrition Magazine, Cummings Veterinary Medicine Magazine, Tufts Dental Medicine Magazine and Jumbo Magazine—and  has appeared in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and The Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications.