Wendy Ewald

Her work is directed toward "helping children to see" and using the "camera as a tool for expression". In recent years, Ewald has produced a number of conceptual installations—for example, in Margate, England, and in Amherst, Massachusetts—making use of large-scale photographic banners. 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. In 1992, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

In 2012, Ewald, along with Elizabeth Barret, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts - Photography. For the Fellowship, they collaborated on a multimedia project called, Portraits and Dreams: A Revisitation. The project is a sequel to Ewald's previous book, Portraits and Dreams. Published in 1985, this book is a collection of photographs and writings that focused on students Ewald taught in the Appalachian mountains. Ewald reengaged with the former students, now in their forties, to curate photographs, objects, and audiovisual materials related to those years, as well as create new materials for their installation.

In 2010, Ewald received a Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design.

Throughout Ewald's career, she has had individual exhibitions at multiple galleries, including the International Center of Photography in New York, the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland, and the Corcoran Gallery of American Art, and the Whitney Biennial in 1997.

Wendy Ewald was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from Abbot Academy in 1969 and attended Antioch College between 1969–74, as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied photography with Minor White. She embarked on a career teaching photography to children and young people internationally. In 1969 & 1970, she taught photography to Innu and Mi'kmaq Native-American children in Canada. Between 1976–80 she taught photography and film-making to students in Whitesburg, Kentucky, in association with Appalshop, a media co-op. In 1982, she traveled to Ráquira, Colombia, on a Fulbright fellowship working with children and community groups; spending a further two years in Gujarat, India. Ewald is married to Tom McDonough, a writer and cinematographer. They live in the Hudson Valley of New York with their son, Michael.

Wendy Ewald (born 1951) is an American photographer and educator.