WALT STRICKLIN 2921 Monte D’Este Dr., Birmingham, AL 35216, 205.616.3918
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Feb - Sacred Arts Gallery Birmingham, Alabama, The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail
2014 Aug - Wade Smith Gallery Birmingham, Alabama, Landscapes of the South
2012 Feb - May, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, Tennessee, Flying Solo
2011 Jan - April, Xiang Sha Wan Art Palace, Inner-Mongolia, China, Southern Landscapes
Group Exhibitions
2014 Power Gallery, Alabama Power Art Gallery, Electra Awards
2014 Kessler Building, Birmingham Art Assc, Birmingham, Alabama
2013 DanielDay Gallery, Flora and Fauna, Birmingham, Alabama
2013 Dairy Art Center, Sand and Snow: Inner Mongolia, Boulder, Colorado
2012 DanielDay Gallery, Group Show, Birmingham, Alabama
2012 Hoover Public Library - Bluff Park Artist, Hoover, Alabama
2011 Durbin Gallery at Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama
2011 Jill Celeste Gallery - Atlanta - Past and Present, Atlanta, Georgia
2011 Hoover Public Library - Bluff Park Artist, Hoover, Alabama
2009 Lite Box Gallery, Pepper Place, Birmingham, Alabama
Principle Awards
Pulitzer Prize Runner Up - 1982, Feature Photography
Electra Awards - 2014, 2nd Place Visual Arts, Alabama Power Co/Birmingham Arts Journal 2014
World Hunger Award - 1986, Project Picture Editor
Pictures of the Year (Univ of Missouri) - 1980, 2nd Place, News Picture Story, Mariel Boat Lift
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar - 1988, 2nd Place, Portrait / Personality
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar - 1991, 3rd Place, News Picture Story
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar - 1980, Honorable Mention, News Picture
Teaching / Lecturing / Judging
2013 - Judge, 70th Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Competition, Univ of Missouri
2012 - Photo Coach Weekend Photojournalism Workshop, University of Georgia
2012 - Grandfather Mountain Camera Clinic, Grandfather Mtn, North Carolina
2011 - All in Focus Forum, Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama
2011 - Landscape Forum, Xiang Sha Wan, Inner-Mongolia, China
2008 - Photo Coach Weekend Photojournalism Workshop, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga
2007 - Photo Coach Weekend Photojournalism Workshop, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga
2006 - Photo Coach - The Mountain Workshops, Western Kentucky University, Madisonville, Ky
2001 - Photo Coach - The Mountain Workshops, Western Kentucky University, Hopkinsville, Ky
Publications or Online
2014 The Birmingham Arts Journal, Inaugural Electra Awards Issue
2013 PhotoPlace Gallery - Middleberry, VT, The Edge of Night: Dawn and Dusk
2013 May - “H” Life Magazine, Hoover, Alabama, Profile: The Pieces of a Panorama
2011 Xiang Sha Wan Life, a travel book on Xiang Sha Wan, Inner-Mongolia, China
2011 May - aCurator.com, Featured photographer, online magazine edited by Julie Grahame
2011 April - Chinese Photographers Magazine
2011 March / April - Lenswork Magazine
2011 March / April - Lenswork Extended
2010 December - Featured photographer in Fine Art Photographers Blogspot, by Matthew Pace
2010 Dec - Rhythmic Sensation-Visual Sensation, Still Point Online Art Gallery
Photojournalism
July ’98 - Oct 2012 The Birmingham News - Director of Photography
Jun ’95 - July 1998 The Chattanooga Times - Director of Graphics and Photo
Oct ’87 - June 1995 Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Photographer / Picture Editor
Jan ’84 - Sept.1987 The Providence Journal-Bulletin - Picture Editor / Designer
Sept’78 - Dec.1983 Florida Times-Union / Jacksonville Journal - Projects Photographer
Jan ’74 - Aug.1978 The Chattanooga News-Free Press - Photographer