Photographer Wendy Ewald

     I'm excited to hear photographer Wendy Ewald lecture at the Whitesburg campus of SKCTC tonight.  She will be in the auditorium of the Belinda Mason Building from 7:00 pm -10:00 pm. Ewald is an internationally known photographer with many books on her photography projects as well as work published in magazines such as Psychology Today, Art in America, Harper;s and Time-Life. 
      Ewald lived and taught in Letcher County from 1974 -1982.  She has photographed in many parts of the world but the one of most interest to me is that of her stay in East Kentucky. That time period produced the books, Appalachia:  A Self Portrait, Appalachian Women:  Three Generations, Portraits and Dreams:  Photographs and Stories by Children of the Appalachians.
     Part of Ewald's presentation tonight will include images by her and her students during her stay in Letcher County as well as video from a new documentary project which follows up on former students who are now adults.
    The event is free and open to the public.  It is part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Here is a link that gives detail of Ewald's career.

http://literacythroughphotography.wordpress.com/wendy-ewald/