Wendy Ewald was born on 1951 and is an American photographer and educator.
10 Facts About Wendy Ewald
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Wendy Ewald was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from Abbot Academy in 1969 and attended Antioch College between 1969 and 1974, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied photography with Minor White.
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Wendy Ewald embarked on a career teaching photography to children and young people internationally.
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Wendy Ewald's work is directed toward "helping children to see" and using the "camera as a tool for expression".
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Wendy Ewald was one of the founders of the Half Moon Photography Workshop in the East End of London; and in 1989 she created the "Literacy through Photography" programmes in Houston, Texas, and Durham, North Carolina.
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Wendy Ewald was senior research associate at the Center for International Studies at Duke University, visiting artist at Amherst College and director of the Literacy through Photography International program and artist in residence at the Duke University Center for International Studies.
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Wendy Ewald re-engaged with the former students, now in their forties, to curate photographs, objects, and audiovisual material related to those years, as well as create new materials for their installation.
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Wendy Ewald was invited to participate in the photography collective This Place, centered around Israel and the West Bank.
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Wendy Ewald gave cameras to owners of stalls and stores at the Mahane Yehuda marketplace in Jerusalem, Arab women and Romanis in Jerusalem's Old City, schoolchildren in Nazareth, residents of Hebron, Negev Bedouin and high-tech employees in Tel Aviv.
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Wendy Ewald is married to Tom McDonough, a writer and cinematographer.