About Colin Boyle

Colin Boyle is the Director of Photography at Block Club Chicago. A lifelong resident of the North Side, Colin has worked with Block Club since 2020 — earning awards for his images along the way. His work focuses on visual storytelling, breaking news, investigative, Spanish, community and social justice reporting. In 2025, Boyle was promoted from Photographer and Reporter to his current position, where he now oversees freelance photojournalism assignments and visual coverage at Block Club, while continuing to document news in his hometown.

He also teaches a graduate school-level photojournalism class at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, which he has done for the past five years. Boyle holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Medill, studying journalism, Spanish language and video journalism.

Aside from his journalism work, Boyle also does wedding and contract photography work in and around Chicago.

Colin is available at contact form.