Stanley M. Kolber

A Brief Artist's Statement

I practiced law in New York City for many years. I was drawn some eight years ago to photography as a full time artistic undertaking. My work began in the natural world (of which I had long been a passionate observer). I had no interest in recording its well known and often documented predation and violence. Instead, I looked closely: I trained my lens on its inner and often overlooked beauty. Much of this work tends toward an abstract rendering of natural forms. This work has been purchased for corporate and private collections, selected for a book cover, jury selected for the new wing of Children's Hospital in Boston, and, in the Summer of 2008, juried by Ms. Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, along with thirteen other artists from among 400 submitting artists nationwide, into an all media show of twenty one works, two of which were mine, at Pleiades in Chelsea.

I continue to photograph wildlife. Three of my bird images were for two months in early 2009 on exhibition at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex, Connecticut.

In mid 2007 I also began shooting on New York City's West Side, often after dark and in the quieter hours. I brought to this work the shooting style and sensibility honed in the natural world.

Old Lyme, CT

February 2009