Background
Alison Ehrlich Wachstein was born on April 22, 1947, in New Jersey, United States.
Alison Ehrlich Wachstein was born on April 22, 1947, in New Jersey, United States.
Alison Wachstein received a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University (NU), Evanston, Illinois, in 1969. She has attended the Columbia Photojournalism Workshop of the University of Missouri in 1970.
A freelance and portrait studio photographer since 1971, Alison Wachstein also was an adjunct assistant professor of photography at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey (1976-1979), and a photography instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey (1976-1977).
Her photojournalism includes images of pregnancy and childbirth, and she specializes in multigenerational family portraits and candid photography albums.
Alison Wachstein belongs to NPPA, Connecticut Press Women, Professional Women Photographers, and the New Jersey Press Photographers Association.