Sherry Rubel- Photographer

Sherry has been immersed in photography since childhood, beginning in her father’s dark room. He was a professional, award winning photographer, as well as a leader in New Jersey theatre as a director, actor, and filmmaker. She essentially grew up in the darkroom, as well as on and off the stage. While participating in CAPA, the Creative and Performing Arts camp created by her Mother, she was introduced to a wide variety of visual arts, dance, theatre, and music on a daily basis for ten summers. She attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University as a Dance and Theatre major; followed by work with the Institute for Arts & Humanities holding a variety of positions for a period over 10 years. She has owned her own photography studio since 1990 earning a reputation for her keen eye for black and white portraits both as a fine art photographer and a photo journalist. Sherry enthusiastically states, “ART has been her life.”

Sherry's work has been exhibited in and around NJ. A collection of 25 "Living Legacies" portraits was purchased for permanent exhibition at the Actors' Fund Home in Englewood, NJ and her South America Portraits are in a variety of private collections in New Jersey, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania .

Currently staff photographer with the award winning CROSSROADS THEATRE, in New Brunswick, New Jersey she continues a tradition her father started. Sherry has photographed celebrities such as legendary singer Melba Moore, international mime, Yass Hakoshima and dancer Maurice Hines

PHOTO JOURNALISM

She looks to an extended trip to Rio de Janeiro, Salinopolis and Belem, Brazil, and Cacao, French Guyana roughly 30 years ago as her beginning interest in photo- journalism, although at the time it did not register as such. She was radically affected and deeply touched by those who had almost nothing, whether living in the Favelas on the hillsides crushing the city landscape, or homes on stilts sitting over water in San Annopolis to the tiny Hmong village cut out of the forest. At that time Sherry created a series from Belem and another series from Cacao. It is these images that continue to influence her work today.

With marriage and family limiting her ability to travel far from her home in New Jersey, her work shifted to photographing artists (musicians, dancers, writers, visual, and theatre artists). She completed a series of 25 portraits of these luminaries entitled, “Living Legacies.” Since then Sherry has continued to develop her “Living Legacies” series, photographing New Jersey's Veterans.

Sherry is called upon to document a variety of events such as behind the scenes of video projects within the NYC music & dance industries. Sherry's long term goal has always been to return to those places where her yearning to photograph the peoples’ story propelled her into her career as a photographer.http://www.sherryrubelphotography.com/Index.html