Background
Fred Ward was born on July 16, 1935, in Huntsville, Alabama, United States.
Fred Ward was born on July 16, 1935, in Huntsville, Alabama, United States.
Fred Ward received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (1957) and a Master of Arts in Journalism and Communications (1959) from the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Fred Ward has been a freelance photographer/writer since 1960, previously having taught in the Radio-TV-Film Department of St. Petersburg Jr. College in Florida (1959-1960). He also taught photography at the University of Florida (1958-1959) and was a film director for WKNO-TV in Memphis, Tennessee (1959).
The photographer directed and photographed a film on biological control in 1978 entitled Why Spray, and he produced and directed two films for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1970: La Raza: The Story of Mexican Americans and Mexico: 12,000 Years of History.
Fred Ward has been a member of the White House News Photographers Association since 1962. He has also belonged to the U.S. Senate Press Photographers Gallery since 1962 and the NPPA since 1958, winning the latter's first prize in a contest jointly sponsored with the University of Missouri in 1970.