Sharon Farmer

Sharon Farmer is a photojournalist and lectures extensively on photography and photojournalism. Farmer’s photographic work premiered at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles entitled “Not an Ostrich, Treasures from the Vaults of the Library of Congress” That work is now on display through 2024 at the Library of Congress’ Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C. In 2016, Farmer received the Karsh Award at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The award was presented by Estrellita Karsh. She is the widow of noted portraitist and photographer Yousuf Karsh. Farmer served as Director of the White House Photography Office from 1999-2001. A White House photographer since 1993, she documented the Clinton-Gore Administration at its beginning. For more than 50 years, Ms. Farmer has been/is shooting news stories, political campaigns, cultural events, conferences, and portraits. Over the years she has photographed for The Washington Post, the Smithsonian Institution, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The National Urban League, the Journal-isms Roundtable, the Brookings Institution, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. to name a few. Farmer is a founding member of The Exposure Group African American Photographer Association and holds membership with The White House News Photographers Association and with Women Photographers of Washington.