Lillian Elaine Wilson

Lillian Elaine Wilson was born in 1963, and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was raised by New Yorkers, a mother, who is an accomplished poet, and a father, who was a photographer.

In 1986, she graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities, with a major in photography. Wanting to pursue her dream as a photographer, she moved to California in 1989. Her career has been successful and diverse within the photography industry. Since 2005, she works for The J. Paul Getty Museum; there she is the Senior Staff Assistant to the Manager of Imaging Services.

As to her art, her interests continue as a portrait photographer, but more so, her concentration is in street photography. Over the years her photographs have been exhibited, awarded and published in a wide range of outlets.