Ira Wexler

Ira Wexler, an award-winning advertising photographer, has been creating compelling images for more than forty years. A native of New Jersey (the “Jersey shore”), Wexler has lived in the Washington, D.C., area since the early 1970s, working with clients such as Citibank, Coca-Cola, Exxon, Hilton Hotels, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett-Packard, Miller Beer, and McDonald’s. Prior to establishing his studio, Wexler was personal photographer to guitarist and singer-songwriter Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Founding president of the D.C. chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and a national board member, Wexler is the author of The Business of Commercial Photography (Amphoto Books, New York) and is a frequent college lecturer.

Wexler's photographs appear on Teddy Bear (1998), Purple Heart (2003), Hanukkah (2009), and Purple Heart with Ribbon (2011).

Wexler lives on a mountaintop in Maryland near Camp David with his wife, Paula, and their three Pugs.