Wendy Sue Lamm (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American photographer andphotojournalist.
Lamm earned her BA in Humanities from theUniversity of California at Berkeley in 1988. She worked with theAgence France-Presse, where she stayed until 1997. From 1988 to 1996 she works in the most various places of the United States, fromEl Paso, Texas to New York City and San Francisco. In 1994 she worked for theLos Angeles Times and reported on theNorthridge earthquake.[1] Between 1996 and 2005, Lamm was posted inJerusalem, in Paris and inStockholm. Since 1998 she works for the ItalianagencyContrasto.[2] In 1997 she received the firstWorld Press Photo Prize in the categorySpot news for a picture published with the Agence France-Presse.[3] That twin picture depicts Israeli soldiers and a Palestinian, with a thick line separating them. In 1998 she won third prize in the World Press Photo in the categoryArt for a picture published with theContrasto agency.[4]
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