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Photography & Film

The following photographers had their work selected by the editors. Thanks to all who shared their work.
CLICK ON PHOTO to go to the artists' individual pages.

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© Alex Ferrone
Alex Ferrone (July 2022 Featured Artist) is based on the North Fork of New York. As a female commercial and fine art aerial photographer, her works have been published widely, including in Wine Spectator, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Pinhole Journal; have been highlighted in numerous online magazines; and have been featured on TV. Alex has exhibited her fine art photographs in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums nationally in New York, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, and Colorado as well as internationally in Italy and Spain. Her works are held in private collections in the United States, Italy and France. She is also an independent curator and juror as well as owner and director of Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue, NY.
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© Erica Higgs
Erica Higgs is primarily a nature photographer inspired by the hundreds of miles she has wandered with her daughter on trails throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond. Erica and Abby have explored over 850 miles together on both easy and advanced trails. Erica’s work has appeared in several publications and in local galleries. Her photography has been featured on a billboard in NYC, and she won several first place awards. Erica curated a homeschool art show and is currently teaching art at a co-op. 

PHOTOGRAPHY 2021
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Feature Film: Sirena's Gallery
Photo Courtesy: Christine Sloan Stoddard
Christine Sloan Stoddard is a writer, artist, filmmaker, and theater-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. She is also the founder of Quail Bell Press & Productions, including Quail Bell Magazine. A few recent credits include: writer/director of the comedy play Cyber Cinderella at the Broadway Comedy Club in NYC; co-writer of A Chorus Within Her at Theater Alliance in Washington, D.C.; and assistant director of Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story at the Gene Frankel Theatre in NYC. Her latest book, Heaven is a Photograph, is a collection of narrative poetry and photography about a young woman's journey transitioning from the world of photojournalism to fine art photography. Sirena's Gallery is Christine's first feature-length film.
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© Pamela Waldroup
Pamela Waldroup (March '21 Featured Artist) is an award-winning photographer and president of fotofoto Gallery in Huntington, NY. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited extensively in the metropolitan area in galleries and museums including: the Alex Ferrone Gallery, Salmagundi Art Club in NYC, 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, fotofoto Gallery, East End Arts Gallery, Patchogue Arts Council Gallery, Mills Pond House Gallery, Main Street Gallery, Art League of LI, Long Island Museum, b.j. Spoke Gallery, the 2018 Long Island Biennial at Heckscher Museum and smaller local galleries. 
She is a member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) in New York City.

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© Nikki Hung
Nikki Hung is a New York-based photographer whose passion for the arts started at a young age. She pursued various mediums and methods, including illustration, painting, ceramics, graphic design and photography. Currently, she is focused on photography, especially concerning the following themes: nature, people watching, taphophilia and tombstone tourism. Her work has been exhibited in New York City and throughout the Hudson Valley region. She resides in Poughkeepsie, NY with her husband, daughter and their dog, Davey.
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© Lauren Curtis
Lauren Curtis is a New Jersey-based photographer and mixed media artist who graduated with a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and has been creating ever since. Lauren has participated numerous exhibitions. Her artwork has been sold throughout the U.S. and abroad and displayed in private collections, healthcare centers and galleries. Lauren’s work was selected for a solo exhibit at Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters in 2009. She was a featured artist on the Science Channel‘s TV show Oddities (2011-2012), on Germany's TAFF TV (2015), and on several New Jersey and New York City television and radio shows.   ​

PHOTOGRAPHY 2020
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© Belinda Greb
Belinda Greb (April '20 Featured Artist) is an Oregon-based, landscape and wildlife photographer. Her work has been exhibited at New Zone Gallery in Eugene, Oregon and has sold internationally. Belinda’s work has also been featured in numerous online publications. One of her photographs, “Cougar Reservoir on a Snowy Day,” was published in the UK Sunday Times for a featured interview with the environmental writer, Barry Lopez. ​
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© Janene Bouck
 Janene Bouck is a professional photographer based in New York. In addition to fine art, she also creates fashion and décor at the Silent Jane Studio in Broadalbin, NY using vintage and salvaged items. Janene's awards include a juror’s choice award at “The Art of New York” Annual Juried Art Show (2016), an honorable mention for the Mary Cleland Art Award at the 2016 Statewide Summer Art Show, and best in show at the Winter Art Show (2018). 

PHOTOGRAPY: 2016 - 2019
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© Carol Roullard
Carol Roullard (February '19 Featured Artist) is a California artist who uses a high-powered microscope to capture photographs of tiny crystals. Carol has sold her unique art nationally and internationally. Her work has received numerous awards, and she has released a clothing and accessory line called Crystal Art Outfitters.

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© Rebekkah Ziel
Rebekkah Ziel's photographs help to tell the story of her illness and the joy of moving past it. Her work focuses on the life around her in the Adirondack Park and the peace it brings her. She is a Working Member Artist at Micropolis Collective in Gloversville, New York and has exhibited in Albany and Syracuse, NY.
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© Cheryl Thorson
Cheryl Thorson is a photographer from Florida. Her specialty is macro photography. She enjoys photographing insects and flowers, portraying snapshots of nature's incredible beauty that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

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© Rachel Morrison
Virginia photographer, Rachel Morrison, shoots nature, people and architecture with a major emphasis on Colonial Williamsburg and the Historic Triangle region of Virginia. Rachel is also Sanctuary's masthead photographer.
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© Catherine Hyde
Catherine Hyde enjoys traveling the world, hiking and photographing nature's stunning landscapes and unusual wildlife. She is also the author of Pay It Forward and several other novels.

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© Cindy Archbell
Virginia photographer, Cindy Archbell, shares her wildlife and landscape photographs as well as some examples of her infrared photography.
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© Kim Vuozzo
New York photographer, Kim Vuozzo, captures red-shouldered hawks nesting and then finding their wings in her wildlife series.

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