Lloyd Wolf is a photographer based in Arlington, VA. He has over 40 years of experience as an editorial and commercial photographer. His clients include major magazines and corporations. He also teaches photography and has received many grants and awards for his documentary work. Some of his most notable projects focus on Jewish communities, at-risk youth, and violence in DC. He has authored several books and published widely.

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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, National Geographic Explorer, Vogue, People, Elle, Children's
Defense Fund, Mobil, AFL-CIO, American Express, Xerox, Details, United Way, Ms., AT&T, Texaco, Lifetime
TV, Washingtonian, Newsday, Children’s Hospital, AARP, National Institutes of Health, AFSCME, American
Psychological Association, Bureau of the Census, US Holocaust Museum, Bell Atlantic, Folger Shakespeare
Library, and numerous others. Complete list on request.
PHOTOGRAPHY TEACHER
Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA adjunct professor 8/06 to 4/07
George Mason University, Fairfax VA adjunct professor 8/03- 12/03
Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WVA adjunct professor 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.
- Northern Virginia Jewish Community Center to create the exhibition “Circles Within Circles:
Jewish Time Frames” with poet Sherri Waas Shunfenthal 2003
- Columbia Pike Documentary Project 2006 – present: chief photographer for a documentary of
an ethnically diverse area of Arlington, VA. Funded by numerous granting organizations,
including the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, PNC Bank Foundation, the Arlington
Commission for the Arts, and the Arlington Community Foundation. Book in progress,
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - 2002 National Havurah Institute, Poretsky Fellowship.
- 2005 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship
- 2008-9 Maccabi ArtsFest Artist in Residence
BOOKS JEWISH FATHERS: A Legacy of Love
Published by Jewish Lights, 2004. Text by Paula Wolfson, photographs by Lloyd Wolf
JEWISH MOTHERS: Strength Wisdom Compassion
Published by Chronicle Books, 2000. Text by Paula Wolfson, photographs by Lloyd Wolf.
FACING THE WALL: Americans at the Vietnam Memorial
Published by Macmillan Books, 1986. Text by Duncan Spenser, photographs by Lloyd Wolf.
ARTIST’S BOOKS APRIL FOOL, 2010 (Blurb.com)
STUDENT BODY, 2010 (Blurb.com)
TWENTY ROSES, 2010 (Blurb.com)
FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD, 2011 (Blurb.com)
CIRCLES WITHIN CIRCLES: JEWISH TIME FRAMES, 2012 (Blurb.com)
FOTOGRAFICA TIPICA, 2013 (Blurb.com)
COLD HIGHWAY, 2014 (Blurb.cm)
BEYOND THE BUS. OPERATION UNDERSTANDING DC, 2014 (Blurb.com)

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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.
-JERUSALEM -Walls & Bridges- photographs & interviews of citizens of Jerusalem Israel in conjunction
with writer Carol Grosman’s “Jerusalem Stories.” 2002-present. Book to be published by Wesleyan
University.
-JEWELS: Women of Color Adorned- African-American women and their jewelry. 2005 to 2006
-GREAT LOVE STORIES FROM THE HOLOCAUST - documenting Holocaust survivor couples, in
collaboration with Moment magazine. 2004 to 2007.
-SHRINES - photographs of the homemade memorials created along Washington DC streets as tributes to
the individuals murdered in the ongoing violence that plagues the city. 2003 to present. Feature essay
published in the Washington Post Magazine, March 2008 and the New York Times online 2009, on WTOP
and WAMU, 2013
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
GUEST LECTURER/WORKSHOPS: Corcoran School of Art, National Gallery of Art, Columbia Museum
of Art, Photoworks, Institute for Policy Studies, Kellogg Fellows Foundation, Georgetown University,
Washington Center for Photography, AFSCME, Earlham College, Washington Board of Jewish Education,
Smithsonian Institution, University of Massachusetts, Northern Virginia Community College, Frostburg
State College, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Politics & Prose, Jewish Museum of New York, Skirball Cultural
Center, Converse College, SC, Society for Photographic Education, Jewish Folk Arts Festival. Compete list
on request
PROFILES: WPFW and WAMU Radio 1986; Museum and Arts 1989; Washington Post 1994; Washington
Jewish Week 1994, Business Forward 2001, elan Oct 2002, Washington City Paper Sept 2007, Journeys
to a Jewish Life 2007, Washington Informer Dec 2007, Homicidewatch.org Dec 2011, WAMU 2013
INTERVIEWS: CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES KURALT, 1990; Washington Post, 1990;
City Paper, 1990, WAVY-TV, 1992, ACTV-3, 1994, WUSA-TV 1995, WPGC-FM, 1995, CBS Cable
News FAST FORWARD 1997, News Channel 8, 1999, WUST-AM, 2000, Shalom America, 2004, Fairfax
County Public Access TV, 2006, NPR “Tell Me More,” 2008, WUSA-TV9, 2008, Washington City Paper,
2008, Washington Informer, 2008, New York Times online, 2009, Peoples District (blog), 2010, Arlington
Video Network (AVN), 2010, Arlington Independent Media (Tell Arlington’s Stories), 2011, WTOP, 2013,
PG CTV News, 2013, FUSEVISUAL, 2014, WETA, 2014
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;
International Jewish Monthly 1997; Who Cares 1999; horizonmagazine (web magazine) 1999; The
Essential Klezmer (Algonquin Books) 2000; Women.com (web magazine) 2000; Deadhead Social Science
(Altimira Press) 2000; Arlington: Images of America (Arcadia Press) 2000; Elan, 2003. Kerem, 2007, The
Grateful Dead in Concert (McFarland & Co.), 2010; The Sun, 2011; Beyond Politics: Inspirational People of
Israel (Mazo Publishers), 2011, Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace (postpunkproject.com), 2013
SELECTED 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

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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 and 2006; 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’ Hospitals & Related Institutions Awards- two Finalists -1999; Communicator
Awards- Crystal Award of Excellence- 1999, Top Ten Black & White Websites Black & White World- 2001;
Evangelical Press Association, photo feature, 2nd place- 2002; Associated Church Press, 3rd place- 2002;
Maternal Infant Services Exhibition, New Zealand two first place awards – 2003: 2006 Healthcare Advertising
Awards – Bronze, 2006; Association Trends, Silver Medal ; magazine cover, 2008
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDS
Grandma's House- Men Who Make A Difference, 1991;
Washington Urban League- Black and White Together, 1995
Whitman Walker Clinic – Art for Life honoree - 2010
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")
-Volunteer teacher and consultant with Arlington Mill Photo Program for immigrant youth, 1999-2007
-Curator of Exhibition "New To You" - Washington Center for Photography, 1989.
-Board Member, 1989-90 of the Washington Center for Photography.
-Curator of Exhibition "New Visions" - Black & White Gallery, 2004
-Steering Committee – Fabrangen Havurah, 2004 to 2011. Chair, 2008- - 2010.
Social Action chair. 2012 – present
-Arlington History Advisory Task Force, 2015
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Society for Photographic Education, US Senate and House Press
Photographer’s Gallery
EXHIBITIONS See attached list
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC; National Museum of Fine Arts,
Hanoi, Republic of Vietnam; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery,
AL; Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC; Arlington County (VA) Public Library, Virginia
Collection; Sony Gallery, American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt; Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York,
New York.Museum of Tolerance (Simon Wiesenthal Center) Los Angeles, CA, Hebrew Union College, New
York NY; Plotkin Museum, Scottsdale AZ, University of Massachusetts W.E.B. DuBois Library, Amherst MA,
University of Manitoba St Paul’s College Mauro Center for Peace and Justice, Winnipeg Canada, Wayne State
University Walter P. Reuther Library, Detroit MI, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington/ Lilian &
Albert Small Jewish Museum, Temple Judea Museum, Elkins Park, PA
PORTFOLIO AND REFERENCES Available on request.
My primary website URL’s are: www.lloydwolf.com
http://lloydwolfphoto.blogspot.com www.pikedoc.org and http://dcshrines.blogspot.com
FUSEVISUAL profile: http://www.fusevisual.org/interviews/2014/05/11/lloyd-wolf
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