Pamela Thomas-Graham is a photographer and author based in New York City. She was born and raised in Detroit and studied at Harvard College, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. She was the first African-American woman to become a partner at McKinsey & Company. Later she held senior roles at CNBC, Liz Claiborne and Credit Suisse. She has also written three mystery novels.
Her husband, the author Lawrence Otis Graham, died suddenly in February 2021. In spring 2023 she took her first photography class, New York at Twilight, at the International Center for Photography. She has also studied at Parsons The New School for Design.
Her first photography book, When Words Fail: A Photographic Journey through New York City (Kehrer Verlag, 2024), shows the city at twilight. It has 156 pages. The book follows her path from grief to healing. Her second book, Stone by Morning, is about Iceland and is listed by Kehrer Verlag for 2026. She serves on the Photography Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2025 she joined the Board of Trustees of Aperture.
