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Willie Anne Wright was born in 1924 in the small town of Moultrie, Georgia. She is an American photographer and photojournalist. She is best known for her work documenting the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Wright began her career as a photographer in the 1950s, working for the Associated Press in Atlanta. She was the first African-American woman to be hired by the AP in the South. In the 1960s, she documented the civil rights movement in the South, including the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. Wright has received numerous awards for her work, including the National Press Photographers Association's Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award in 1965, the National Association of Black Journalists' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, and the National Press Photographers Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Wright is 99 years old and her net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her career as a photographer and photojournalist.

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Age 100 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 6 June 1924
Birthday 6 June
Birthplace Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
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1985

Willie Anne first experimented with pinhole photography in 1985. For a class project she had to create and use a pinhole camera. She used Cibachrome paper for use in a sixteen by twenty inch pinhole camera. With color-correcting filters she created wide-angle color prints by placing the pinhole close to the film plane. Her images were whimsical with bright colors and a vignette border.

1973

Willie Anne began her artistic career as a painter, teaching art classes at the Jewish Community Center, and was influenced by one of her painting instructors, Theresa Pollak. For a while, she experimented with printmaking. By 1973, she began to focus more and more on photography. Inspired by her surroundings and personal life, her first works incorporated images of her family, friends, and Civil War reenactors. Well known for her use of the old technique of pinhole, she is also an exceptional master in lensless photography, solar printing, and photograms.

1945

She graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1945 with a BS in Psychology, and from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1964 with an MFA in Painting. She later studied at the Maine photographic workshops in Rockport, Maine and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York.

1924

Willie Anne Wright (born June 6, 1924) is an American photographer known for her colorful cibachrome and grayscale Pinhole Photography.