Neil Forlberg, a former student and colleague of the late Ansel Adams, is widely known for his large and medium format color photographs that infuse landscapes and "built environments" great drama and beauty. Born in San Francisco and raised in the mid-west, Folberg has lived with his family in Jerusalem since 1976.
"The deserts of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan seem never to have sat for a lens quite as magical as Neil Folberg's. Since 1979, Folberg has been focusing on the arid lands of these Mideast countries, capturing not only their dramatic contours but the dazzling light shows produced at night by the skies above them. . . Spectacular is not too effusive a word . . ." --Grace Glueck, "The New York Times" ." . . a photographer who recreates the visceral sensation of walking around the countryside at night: conveying that moment when your body becomes extra sensitive to the soft sounds and movements." --"The New York Times," November 3, 2002 "With his latest series of images, Folberg's superbly conceived and executed photographs capture the wondrous beauty, mystery and ecstatic grace of the nighttime desert bound under the celestial canopy of the heavens." --"Black & White Magazine," October 2002 "But what makes Folberg's night skies so dazzling is the same thing that gives deep-sky astrophotographs their scientific worth: long exposures that record hundreds if not thousands of stars that are invisible to the naked eye." --"American Photo," November/December 2001 "The genius of these images is not in the revelation of any new truth, but in the expression of unsolvable equations. We are shown both realms of the visible universe, Earth and sky." --"Astronomy," June 2002 "Like his teacher, Ansel Adams, the American photographer Neil Folberg is an evangelist of nature." --"Conde Nast Traveler," October 2001
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