his attention to teaching art and filmmaking. After receiving a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he began the Artist Filmmaker in the Schools program in Tampa, FL. During this time, Lee met his wife and started a family. Lee became an influential and driving force in the Tampa art scene; founding the Artists and Writers Trust and the Florida Photographer's Workshop and co-founded the annual Artists and Writers Ball. Stroke In August 2003, Lee suffered a severe stroke and his left side was paralyzed. While some recovery occurred, from September 2008 he was resident in a nursing home. Lee and his family and friends championed the causes of people in nursing homes and the issues and problems they face. He died on June 11, 2015. Exhibitions Soho Gallery, Cnr Prince St. and West Broadway, January ?–February 27 1972 Bud Lee: America, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, USA, 17 Nov 2011 – 8 Jan 2012 References External links Bud Lee Picture Maker (official website) American photojournalists 1941 births 2015 deaths Photographers from Florida Photographers from New York (state) People from White Plains, New York 20th-century American photographers People from Plant City, Florida The New York Times visual journalists Civil rights in the United States