The Nelson Fund for Social Justice at the Portland Museum of Art will present a lecture by noted educator and photographer Wendy Ewald on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 6:30 p.m., at the Eastland Park Hotel in Portland. Admission is free and doors open at 6 p.m.

Ewald is a writer, photographer and teacher who has dedicated herself to children’s issues around the world for more than 30 years. Her documentary projects probe questions of identity and cultural differences, and she encourages children to use cameras to record themselves, their families and their communities, and to articulate their fantasies and dreams. In 1989, she created the Literacy Through Photography programs, of which she is still Creative Director. Ewald’s photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, and Harper’s, among other publications, and are included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography. She has received numerous prizes for her work, among them a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Fulbright Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. She is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. A book signing will immediately follow the lecture in the Museum’s Great Hall. The lecture is being held in conjunction with the exhibition “American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America” at the Portland Museum of Art through Jan. 7. For more information, call 207-775-6148, ext. 3227.