Jerry Howell Lecture Series: Pulitzer Prize Winner Matthew Lewis to Speak at Randolph Community College Jan. 21

Matthew Lewis' photo of Martin Luther King Jr.

Randolph Community College’s Photography Department will present its next Jerry Howell Lecture Series event on Tuesday, Jan. 21. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Matthew Lewis will speak from 7-9 p.m. in the Photography Imaging Center on the Asheboro Campus.
           
Matthew Lewis began his professional photography career freelancing for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper in the early 1960s, covering historic figures and events including Martin Luther King Jr., the 1963 March On Washington, and President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.

Lewis joined the Washington Post in 1965 as a staff photographer covering the Civil Rights marches, Democratic National Conventions, Super Bowls, and celebrities for the Washington Post and the Post’s Potomac Sunday Magazine. Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1975 for his series of photographs in color and black and white, a first in the category’s history that color photographs won. Later, Lewis was promoted to assistant managing editor of photography.
           
After retiring from the Post in 1990, Lewis moved to Thomasville, N.C., and became a staff  photographer for the Thomasville Times.
           
The Jerry Howell Lecture Series honors the memory of Randolph Community College Photography Program co-founder and long-time chairman Jerry Howell. The series is funded
by the Photography Challenge Fund administered by the Randolph Community College
Foundation.
           
RCC’s Asheboro Campus is located at 629 Industrial Park Avenue. Take the McDowell Road exit from 220 Bypass and follow the signs.

The event is free and open to the public; please register at www.rccphoto.blogspot.com in order to assure sufficient seating.