Large Framed Lolly Koon (Charleston, b. 1981) Photograph. Signed and dated 2005. Professionally Framed and Matted. Image Sight 19 1/2"x14 1/2". In frame measures 29 3/4"x37"x1". Weight 9 pds 5 oz. PROVENANCE: A Private Charleston SC Estate. Lolly Koon was born in 1981 in Charleston, SC. During high school she studied photography at the Gibbes Art studios. She also traveled with humanitarian aid to Romania where she took documentary photographs for the group as well as for accompanying doctors. Koon attended college at Rochester Institute of Technology where she studied Fine Art and Advertising Photography. In the spring of 2002, Lolly traveled to Cuba to embark on a new photography project. Also in 2002, Lolly received a scholarship from Fuji Film in exchange for a portfolio of her images. The summer before her senior year in college, she lived in the British Virgin Islands on a sailboat and and worked as a photographer for a sailing company brochure. She graduated with honors in May 2003 with a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration and a minor in Literature. Later that summer, Koon took a position as a photographer at a commercial photography studio in Portland, ME and continued to shoot her own personal work there. She has traveled to Japan, Portugal and China and settled in Brooklyn with her photographer husband, twins and cats.

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