Joy Wolf knew that she liked photography sometime around her fifth birthday when she first picked up a Brownie camera. During her award-winning career, she has worked as a newspaper photographer for the Arizona Daily Star, The Eugene Register-Guard, The San Jose Mercury-News and The Palm Beach Post before she began to freelance, and worked for TIME, People, Newsweek and the New York Times, traveling the world and covering major news events.
Ms. Wolf’s photographs have also been published in A Day in the Life of Japan, A Day in the Life of America and A Day in the Life of California as well as Bayan Ko: Images from the Philippine Revolt, Jews in America, and Christmas in America.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the U.S, Europe and Asia and her photographs are in the permanent collection at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, the Denver Art Museum, the George Eastman House and the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen.