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Artist: Wendy Watriss (American, b. 1943)
Wendy Watriss (born 1943) is an American photographer who worked as an international photojournalist and documentary photographer, covering stories for Newsweek and The New York Times. In 1982, she won the World Press and Oskar Barnack Leica Awards for her photo documentation of Agent Orange. Watriss has received artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Along with Fred Baldwin, she co-founded FotoFest International as a platform for photographers and other artists.