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Penny Wolin is an American portrait photographer.
She additionally trained as a visual anthropologist and filmmaker. Known for her documentary and conceptual photographs, she has completed commissions for major corporations, published widely in national magazines, exhibited in major institutions and her work is held in private and public collections.

Wolin has been honored to photograph such icons as Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Annie Liebovitz, George Burns, Ursula K. Le Guin and Dolly Parton. Her seminal book and Smithsonian solo exhibition, The Jews of Wyoming: Fringe of the Diaspora  was hailed by Library Journal as “a unique and important contribution to our understanding of Jewish life in the United States.” Kirkus Reviews bestowed upon Wolin’s exhaustive book, Descendants of Light: American Photographers of Jewish Ancestry, the coveted Kirkus Star, the most prestigious designation of excellence in the book industry. Her magnum opus, Guest Register, was reviewed in The New York Times, saying, “… a world in which dreams may be diminished but their originators, these noble occupants of the St. Francis Hotel, are radiant, beautiful, timelessly alive.”