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Sharon Camille Farmer (born June 10, 1951) is an American photographer. She was the first African-American woman to be hired as a White House photographer and the first African American and first female to be Director of the
White House
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Photography office.
Biography
Farmer was born and raised inWashington, D.C.
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, and graduated from Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best pu ...
in 1974 with a degree in photography. While a student she became a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, vice president of the student government, and served as editor for the school newspaper, ''Our Choking Times''.
Career
Farmer started her career in 1974 shooting album covers. Her freelance photography grew to photojournalism and she worked forSmithsonian Institution
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, ''The Washington Post
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'' and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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.
In 1993, Sharon Farmer was hired to photograph for The White House covering President Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (Birth name, né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 ...
and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Later, Farmer was promoted to Director of White House Photography and became the first African American and first woman to hold this position.
Farmer's work has been included in multiple exhibits, including: "Songs of My People
''Songs of My People'' was a book, exhibition and multimedia project created and edited by organizers Eric Easter, Dudley M. Brooks and D. Michael Cheers.Hagen, Charles"Review/Photography; 'Songs of My People,' A Black Self-Portrait."''New York ...
," "Art against AIDS," "Gospel in the Projects," "Twenty Years on the Mall," "Washington, DC-Beijing Exchange," and "Our View of Struggle."
Academia
Sharon Farmer majored in photography and minored in music at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree.References
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