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LLOYD WOLF PHOTOGRAPHER
300 S. Jefferson St., Arlington, VA 22204 (703) 998-5328

RESUME


DATE OF BIRTH

February 9, 1952

EDUCATION
Goddard College Plainfield, VT M.A. Photography 1977
Trinity College Hartford, CT B.A. Political Science 1974

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EDITORIAL AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Clients include:
The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, People, Elle, Children's Defense Fund, Mobil, AFL-CIO, American Express, Xerox, Details, United Way, Ms., AT&T, Texaco, Lifetime TV, Washingtonian, Jewish Monthly, Self, Alexandria Hospital, AAA, National Institutes of Health, AFSCME, Utne Reader, American Psychological Association, Bureau of the Census, US Holocaust Museum, Bell Atlantic, Salon.com and numerous others. Complete list on request.

PHOTOGRAPHY TEACHER

Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WVA 8/86-12/89
Arlington County Public Schools, Arlington, VA 1976-81, 1983-85
National Cathedral School, Washington, DC 1981-83
Alternative Learning Center, American University, Washington, DC 1977

PROJECTS

GRANTS - National Endowment for the Arts 1980
Chief photographer for the Arlington Photographic Documentary Project, funded by an NEA Survey Grant. A contemporary record of Arlington VA consisting of 125 photographs and an extensive catalog was produced.

Arlington Commission for the Arts 1993 "One Kid, One Kid" Enlarged polaroid prints with text of a year in the life of my daughter.

Arlington County Library Grant 1981

Teacher Innovative Fund Grants 1979, 1981

Arlington Arts Center 1996 to create new documentary work of Arlington, VA.

BOOKS
FACING THE WALL:
Americans at the Vietnam Memorial
Published by Macmillan/Collier Books, 1986. Text by Duncan Spenser, photographs by Lloyd
Wolf.

JEWISH MOTHERS:
Strength Compassion Wisdom
Published by Chronicle Books, 2000. Text by Paula Wolfson, photographs by Lloyd Wolf.

DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS

TEENAGERS - 1985-88 Washington Post Magazine cover story, 1988.

DRUG REHABILITATION IN PRISON - 1989-1991 Documenting a pilot program at Lorton
Reformatory, Washington, DC's main prison. City Paper cover story, 1990.

DEADHEADS - collaboration with Sociology Department of the University of North Carolina-
Greensboro documenting the fans of The Grateful Dead. Book in progress. A video was
produced and shown nationwide on PBS,1989.

MARCH OF THE LIVING - coverage of a pilgrimage of 3,000 Jewish teen-agers to Holocaust sites
in Poland, followed by a visit to Israel. Jewish Monthly cover story, 1990.

GRANDMA'S HOUSE - documentation of a program in Washington, DC that cares for babies
born HIV-positive. 1991 to 1995.

MOROCCAN JEWRY - photographed the Jewish community of Morocco. Cover stories for
Forward, Jewish Monthly, and The Exponent, 1992.

OPERATION UNDERSTANDING/DC - documenting an education and outreach project for Black
and Jewish youth. 1995 to present

RED THREAD - exploration of Jewish family roots in Europe and Israel- with my daughter Emma. 1998

OT AZOY - photographs of klezmer musicians. 1999 to present.


SPECIAL RECOGNITION

GUEST LECTURER/WORKSHOPS:
Corcoran School of Art, National Gallery of Art, Mt. Vernon College, Photoworks, Institute for Policy Studies, Kellogg Fellows Foundation, Georgetown University, Washington Center for Photography, AFSCME, Earlham College, Washington Board of Jewish Education, Edmund Burke School, Temple Agudas Achim, Temple Bnai Israel, Smithsonian Institution, Vienna Photographic Society, Northern Virginia Community College, Frostburg State College, Wakefield High School, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Jewish Study Center, Springfield Art Guild.

PROFILES:
WPFW and WAMU Radio, 1986; Museum and Arts, 1989, Washington Post, 1994.

INTERVIEWS:
CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES KURALT, 1990; Washington Post, 1990; City Paper, 1990, WAVY-TV, 1992, ACTV-31, 1994, WUSA-TV, 1995, WPGC-FM, 1995, CBS Cable News FAST FORWARD, 1997, NewsChannel 8, 1999.

PORTFOLIO:
Included in: BANNED IN DC (Sun Dog Press) 1988; The Picture Professional Winter 1989-90; SHOTS summer 1991; Contact summer 1992; Caught in the Crossfire (Walker Books) 1995; fullbleed 1997; Who Cares 1999; horizonmagazine (web magazine) 1999, The Essential Klezmer (Algonquin Books) 2000.

AWARDS AND CITATIONS:
Chosen as one of Washington, DC's "Twelve Top Photographers" by Washingtonian, June 1981; cited by Eastman Kodak as one of the top 15 high school photography teachers in the country, 1983; "Who's Who in American Photography"1988; ADDY Awards- Art Directors Club of Washington -one First Place, one Finalist, 1989. Citation, 1990; MARKY Awards - Second Place, 1990; OZZIE Awards -Magazine Design and Production, Best Cover for a consumer magazine, 1990; Washington Edpress- Excellence In Print- 1990-91, Gold Award, Silver Award- 1993; Printing Industries of Metropolitan Washington- Judges' Award- 1991; National Edpress- Finalist- 1992; Society of National Association Publications- Excel Award/First Place for cover photography- 1992; American Jewish Press Association- Simon Rockower Award- First Place for Excellence in Photography- 1993; Art Direction Magazine- First Place (in-house magazines)- 1994; JWB Communications Competition- Award for Excellence- 1995; Educational Press Association of America- Distinguished Achievement Award- 1995; International Labor Communications Association- First Award- 1995. Healthcare Marketing Advertising Awards- Silver Award, Bronze Award- 1998, Silver Award 1999; NACRI -National Association of Childrens 92 Hospitals & Related Institutions Awards- two Finalists -1999; Communicator Awards- Crystal Award of Excellence- 1999

COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDS

Grandma's House- Men Who Make A Difference, 1991
Washington Urban League- Black and White Together, 1995

OTHER ACTIVITIES

-Volunteer with "SHOOTING BACK" teaching photography to homeless children, 1989-1991.
-Volunteer photo teacher with at-risk youth, 1991-present ("Streets To Skills/Voices from the Street" program).
-Curator of Exhibition "New To You" - Washington Center for Photography, 1989.
Board Member, 1989-90 of the Washington Center for Photography.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Society for Photographic Education

EXHIBITIONS

See attached list

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC; National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Republic of Vietnam; Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC; Arlington County (VA) Public Library, Virginia Collection; Sony Gallery, American University of Cairo, Cairo, Eygpt; Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, New York.

PORTFOLIO AND REFERENCES
Available on request.

Exhibitions

SOLO
University of California, ASUC Studio, Berkeley, CA 9/79
Amarillo College, Workroom Gallery, Amarillo, TX 10/80
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA 9/80
Colorfax Gallery, Cleveland Park, Washington, DC 3/82
Odessa College, Odessa, TX 8/83
Prairie State College, Chicago, IL 11/83
Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC 6/86
A Personal Gallery, Greensboro, NC 10/86
ABCNoRio, New York, NY 7/87
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 3/88
Amarillo College, Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo, TX 9/87
University of California, Galleria, San Francisco, CA 7/88
Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA 9/90
Earlham College, Earlham, IN 4/91
American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt 1/92
Jewish Community Center (JCCNV), Fairfax, VA 3/92
Calvin Diego Gallery, Frederick, MD 8/92
GO!, Arlington, VA 5/93
DC Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC 3/95
Mattawoman Creek Art Center, Marbury, MD 3/97
Blue Elephant Art Center, Frederick, MD 3/99
Bnai Brith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC 5/00

GROUP
Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 11/73
Matrix, Hartford, CT 4/74
JET Studio, Washington, DC 3/77
Alfred University, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY 1/79
Local 1734 Art Collective, Washington, DC 3/79
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA 11/80
Intuitiveye, Washington, DC 3/81
Appalachian State University, Farthing Gallery, Boone, NC 10/81
County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ 5/83
Brookdale Community College, Monmouth, NJ 6/83
Greenspring Gallery, Alexandria, VA 8/83
Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Washington, DC 9/87
University of Massachusets, Boston, MA 3/88
Touring Exhibition, New England Foundation for the Arts 1989
Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Washington, DC 2/89
Tuttle Gallery, McDonogh School, McDonogh, MD 4/89
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA 7/90
Touring Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA 1990-1992
The Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC 6/91
District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC), Washington, DC 3/92
Washington Center for Photography, Washington, DC 3/92
Klutznick Museum, Washington, DC 8/92
Metropol Gallery, Baltimore, MD 11/93
Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA 4/94
Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD 9/94
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA 5/95
Washington Center for Photography, Washington, DC 12/95
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC 4/96
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA 10/96
Longwood Visual Arts Center, Farmville, VA 1/97
Claren Court Studios, Arlington VA 9/97
DCJewish Community Center, Washington, DC 10/98
Aquarius, San Francisco, CA 12/98
National Democratic Women's Club, Washington, DC 1/99
America's Black Holocaust Museum, Milwaukee, WI 1/00

COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Republic of Vietnam
Arlington County (VA) Public Library, Virginia Collection
Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC
Sony Gallery, American University of Cairo, Cairo, Eygpt
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
Museum of Jewish Heritage, NewYork, New York
Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Amalgamated Bank, Washington, DC