PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION
1958 Commercial Photography Workshops – New York Institute of Photography, NY
1958-59 “Esthetics, Techniques and Other Concepts in Photography” Workshop, Harold Feinstein Studio, New York, NY
1960-61 “Photography Made Difficult: Photojournalism, The Construction of Picture Stories and Pictures Essays”, W. Eugene Smith (Instructor), New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1961-63 Advanced Photojournalism, W. Eugene Smith Studio, New York, NY
1968 Apprenticeship as still photographer and assistant cameraman, Jymie Productions, New York, NY
1969 Apprenticeship as director of photography, assistant cameraman, key grip and producer, various film productions, New Paul Caponigro Zone System Workshop, New York, NY
1984 Color Printing Workshop – Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
1989 Photo I Workshop/Symposium for Photography Educators – Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
1996 Digital Imaging, Mercer County Community College
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1960 Image Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Lou Draper Photographs, The First Time Gallery, The Photo Workshop Center for Photography, Neptune, NJ
1989 Louis Draper: Black and White Photographs, St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center, Lawrenceville, NJ
Enter the City: Photograph by Louis Draper, Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ; traveled to Johnson & Johnson Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ
1995 Louis Draper: Photographs, Mariboe Gallery, The Peddie School Hightstown, NJ
1997 Kirby Art Center, The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
1998 Louis Draper, May Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1959 Photography at Mid-Century, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1961 Four Photographers, Image Gallery, New York, NY
1964 Danbury Academy of Art, Danbury, CT
1965 The Negro Woman, Kamoinge Workshop, New York, NY
Market Place Gallery, New York, NY
Theme Black, Kamoinge Gallery, New York, NY
1966 Perspective: An Exhibition of Photographs by the Kamoinge Workshop, Countee Cullen Branch, The New York Public Library, NY
1969 Amherst College, Amherst, MA
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
1972 Kamoinge Workshop, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1973 Kamoinge Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1974 Kamoinge Workshop, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1975 Kamoinge, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1980 CAPS Grant Recipients, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
1983 Contemporary Afro-American Photography, Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
15th Annual Visual Arts Faculty Exhibitions, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
1984 Earth, Wind and Fire: Tiso, Draper, Colavita, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Alternative Visions, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
1989 19 Black Artists of the Capital County, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Daughters of Rachel, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
1990 Southern Visions III, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Photographs: Louis Draper & Aubrey J. Kauffman, Ridler University, Lawrenceville, NJ
From a Certain Perspective: Photographs by Five Americans, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, The Library Gallery, Mercer County Community College
TAWA in the USSR, Soviet Artists Gallery, Moscow
1991 Reframing the Family, Artists Space, New York, NY
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
1993 Recent Perspectives in Landscape, Ellarslie, The Trenton City Museum, NJ
Diverse Representations II, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
1994 Kamoinge 1994, Countee Cullen Branch, The New York Public Library
Artists in Celebration of Racial Harmony, Pavillion Galleries, Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, Mount Holly, NJ
Exhibition and Auction, Sunshine Foundation, Hamilton, NJ
1995 Mel Leipzig & Louis Draper: Faculty Exhibition, The Gallery, Mercer County Community College
Trenton Takes – 24 Hours in the Life of a City (May 3, 1995), Trenton Artists’ Workshop Association (TAWA) Project, Ellarslie, The Trenton City Museum
When Trenton Baseball Roared Like Thunder, Ellarslie, The Trenton City Museum
1995-96 As Seen by Four: Mel Lepizig, Lou Draper, Marge Chavooshian, Tom Malloy, ArtWorks, Trenton, NJ
1999 Jazz Plus: An Exhibition of Photography, UFA Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Crossing Over: Computer-Inspired Art, The Gallery, Mercer County Community College
2001 Earthline Landscape, The Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ
2002 Ties That Blind: Images of Celebration, Adversity and Identity, Robert B. Merschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
2002-03 AS ONE: Kamoinge Acts Together, Institute of African-American Affairs, New York University, NY
2005 The Human Face, The Gallery, Mercer County Community College
PUBLICATIONS
Photography at Mid-Century exhibition catalogue), Rochester NY: The George Eastman House, 1959, p.41
Camera Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 7 (July 1966), Lucerne, Switzerland: CJ Bucher Ltd., cover, pp. 1,4 (original poem), 18-19, 21
Photography Annual 1971, Popular Photography, New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1970, pp. 72-73
“The Essence of Woman”, Essence, Vol. 2, No. 6 (October 1971), p. 38
“The Accused”, Essence, Vol. 2, No. 7 (November 1971), pp. 58-61, 70
“Jackie Jackson”, Essence, Vol. 2, No. 8 (December 1971), p. 39
“Essence Woman: Delores James: Barbara Fouch”, Essence, Vol. 3, No. 11 (March 1972), p. 25
The Black Photographers Annual 1973, Brooklyn, NY: Black Photographers Annual, Inc., 1973, pp. 63, 122-126
Exposure: Ten Photographers’ Work, New York, NY: Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Program, 1976, pp. 50-59
“Joyce Bryant: A Classic Story,” Essence, Vol. 9, No. 1 (May 1978), p. 74-75, 108, 111, 115-116, ` 118
The American Rag, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall 1978), New York, NY: Black Photographers Annual Inc., 1973, pp. 38-41, (photo-essay)
The Black Photographers Annual 1980 – Volume 4, Brooklyn, NY: Another View Inc., 1980, p. 19
“Will we lose Harlem?” Black Enterprise, Vol. 11, No. 11 (June 1981), pp. 191-200
The Langston Hughes Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1982), cover and p. 11.
Kelsey Review 1988, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (Spring 1988), Trenton, NJ: mercer County Community College, p. 43
Deborah Willis-Thomas, An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers 1940-1988, New York: Garland, Inc., 1989, pp. 245-248
“Draper Show Get Raves” Mercer: A Publication for Alumni and Other Friends of Mercer County Community College (Spring 1989), p. 2
Wendel A. White, “Enter the City: Photographs by Louis Draper” (exhibition catalogue), Stockton State College, 1989
South Trenton Review, Winter 1991, Trenton, NJ: Impacto Press/Co-Works, cover, pp. 1, 15-20
Trenton Takes: 24 Hours in The City. A photo documentary, Trenton NJ: Trenton Artists’ Workshop Association, 1995, pp. 19-28
From the Fire: Sculpture of James J. Colavita, Ewing, NJ: Colavita Retrospective Organization (principal photographer), 1998
Nueva Luz: Photographic Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2001), Bronx, NY : En Foco, Inc., pp. 8-9, 32
Nueva Luz: Photographic Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2002), Bronx, NY : En Foco, Inc., p. 45
Light Work Annual 2002, Syracus, NY: Light Work
Giles R. Wright, “A Civil Rights Turning Point: Fannie Lou Hamer in Atlantic City, 1964. Teacher’s Guide, Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 2005, frontispiece, pp. 1, 4, 12, 17, 19, 23 (Also video with same title.)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Afro-American Museum of Art and Culture, Chicago, IL
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Harlem Art Collection, the Harlem State Office Building, New York, NY
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library, NY
University of Ghana
University of Mexico, Mexico City