The North American Nature Photography Association has published “Make it Work: The Business of Nature Photography” featuring articles by some of America’s most influential and successful nature photographers. Ron Rosenstock is included in this fascinating article.
Ron Rosenstock honored by NANPA with their Fine Art in Nature Photography Award
The North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) has announced that their 2021 winner of the Fine Art in Nature Photography Award is Ron Rosenstock. This award recognizes photographers that create fine art nature imagery and/or who educate and instruct other nature photographers about the techniques critical to fine art imagery.
He will be presented with the award at the 2021 Nature Photography Summit at the end of April in Tuscon, AZ.
"Be My Guest" Interview with Ron Rosenstock
Watch the latest interview on cable television with Ron Rosenstock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRBADcgEvs&feature=youtu.be
"We Talk Photo" Podcast Interview with Ron Rosenstock
October of 2019: Jack and John welcome to the show a fantastic photographer and all-around great guy, Ron Rosenstock. Ron is a world traveller who has amassed an amazing portfolio of images, both in color and in monochrome. He is currently exploring the world of infrared and how to interpret scenes with this cool twist on digital imaging. Listen in to the conversation as they discuss a multitude of photography topics.
Join us for our latest podcast on Nature and Landscape Photography
Photographer Ron Rosenstock's Sacred Places
Article by Joshua Lyford in Worcester Magazine, March 9, 2019
Photographer Ron Rosenstock needs little introduction. The Central Massachusetts talent has shown his work all over the world. While his imagery takes center stage, the man has spent 50 years bringing photography travel groups to faraway places like Ireland, Iceland and Italy. With the opening of his Sacred Places exhibit at the Sprinkler Factory, 38 Harlow St., Saturday, March 30, Rosenstock’s work comes home.
A Fund-Raising Irish Cookbook Receives Sponsorship from Photographer Ron Rosenstock
As many people know, recently Ron Rosenstock sold his lovely Westport, Ireland home of many years that was a home away from home for photographers touring the west country of Ireland. As part of the process Ron sold many of the photographs that adorned the walls of Hillcrest House and donated the proceeds to the Custom House Studio in Westport. It was an incredible boost for the fund raising project of a cook book to insure the continuation of the art program for people with learning disabilities. Ron recently received a copy of the cookbook as a thank you!
Read the article from the Mayo News by clicking here.
"Inquiry" Radio Interview with Ron Rosenstock: Fifty Years of Camera Work
To coincide with Ron's retrospective exhibition at the Worcester Center for Crafts, an interview on "Inquiry" with Mark Lynch presents some fascinating perspectives from Ron Rosenstock. Opening soon, this incredible presentation of the lifetime work of Ron Rosenstock shows images from every perspective, every continent, every season and with every camera!
Listen to the interview here:
"Photographer & Poet Pair Gifts in New Book", an article in the Wachusett Region Landmark Newspaper
Ron Rosenstock in front of his exhibition at the Worcester JCC on Salisbury St.
If you live in the Wachusett region, then you are lucky enough to be in Ron Rosenstock's neighborhood. You may have seen a lengthy recent article in the Wachusett Landmark about Ron's new project, "Emptiness".
"Each morning Holden resident, world traveler, and internationally recognized photographer Ron Rosenstock makes a conscious effort to enjoy the aroma of shaving cream on his face. It’s a tactic, he said, to tune into the present.
“People are always rushing, always trying to get ahead, but they are missing out on something special,” said Rosenstock, who has devoted his life’s work to creating a contagious appreciation of the earth through photography.
His most recent work and sixth publication, an eBook titled “Emptiness,” provides a kind of meditative experience for the reader. The book pairs his photographs with haikus written in English, Gaelic, and Japanese by internationally renowned poet, Gabriel Rosenstock (who coincidentally has the same last name)."
Read more of this article by clicking here.
"The Invisible Light" an article of Ron Rosenstock published in the Italian Literature magazine Margutte
A meaningful photograph is not a photo of something but is something in itself. A photograph that is only its subject matter is seen and quickly reduced to a memory of the particular subject. A meaningful photograph is so much more. As with a meditative and creative experience, there is no end to its possible depth.
For the complete magazine article in Italian or English, click here.
"The Invisible Light" an article of Ron Rosenstock published in
Raising consciousness through the medium of art
“Through photography I have sought to explore the space between the finite and the infinite. For me, infrared photography is on the borderline, the veil between the known and the unknown … a search for what is beyond the doorway of perception. What draws me—what speaks to me—is the mystery …”
Ron Rosenstock, teacher and photographer, has been leading photo tours in different locations throughout the world since 1970. A Massachusetts resident, he has had more than 100 exhibits of his work in the United States and Europe. The author of four books, his most recent publication, The Invisible Light, is a collaboration of photography and verse with Irish poet, Gabriel Rosenstock.
In this week’s guest post for The Culturium, Ron expounds his creative vision, his love for infrared photography and how art is a portal to recognizing our truest selves.
To read the entire article, click here.
"Life Lighting His Lens", an article in the Mayo News of Ireland
IT was on one of those early trips in the 1970s to Clare Island when American pho- tographer, Ron Rosenstock decided to impress the late Michael Joe O’Malley with his knowledge of the 18th century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. So there they are sitting drinking O’Malley’s homemade hooch (or mead, as he called it) in the shadow of his big open fire in the village of Ballytoughy Mór when the philosophy major from Worcester, Massa- chusetts quotes a short tract from the ‘Prolegom- ena to Any Future Metaphysics’, draws a breath and awaits a gasp of affirmation. Instead, the island philosopher – with his inimitable low-key delivery – simply continues reciting at least another two pages of the tract.
“I never tried that stunt again,” Ron Rosenstock tells The Mayo News.
To continue reading click on each page
Page 1 of Mayo News, County Mayo, Ireland, July 12, 2016
Page 2 of Mayo News, County Mayo, Ireland, July 12, 2016
United Haiku Society Features Ron Rosenstock as their Photographer of the Month
The United Haiku Society features Ron Rosenstock as their Photographer of the Month.
Read morePhotography That Inspires: An Article on Ron Rosenstock in Worcester Magazine
This cover story in Worcester Magazine features Ron Rosenstock and his latest exhibit, opening this week at the Briarwood Gallery space. Written by Jacleen Charbonneau 11/6/14.
Join Ron Rosenstock for the opening of his new The Light Within exhibition at the Briarwood Gallery space in Worcester, MA. Click here for more information.
You can also purchase Ron's The Light Within DVD at the online shop.
Press Release of Exhibit Opening at Briarwood, Worcester, MA
The Worcester, MA Briarwood Community will be celebrating its 30th Anniversary with a special exhibition of Ron Rosenstock's photographs from his recent book, Inspirations: Photographs of Iceland. For more information, download the Press Release.
"Ramona Interviews" Ron Rosenstock
Well-known interviewer Ramona Pokoly sits down with Ron Rosenstock for her Worcester CCTV arts and culture show Ramona Interviews.
Minister Michael Ring: Opening of Rosenstock Book Launch, Westport, Ireland
Book Launch at Westport Custom House Studio, Ireland 2012
Interview of Ron Rosenstock by Sue Swinand
Painter and Wellesley college professor Sue Swinand interviews Ron Rosenstock at his exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum.
Two Minutes With Ron Rosenstock: Worcester Magazine
Read the interview with Ron Rosenstock by Worcester Magazine. Click here to download.
Hymn to the Earth: Article in the Boston Globe
Ron Rosenstock's "Stone Circle at Sheeffry, County Mayo, Ireland"
Arts: PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW By Mark Feeney
In ‘Hymn,’ seeking a beauty beyond beauty
Boston Globe, January 24, 2012
WORCESTER - Black-and-white photography carries three associations. It’s generally considered more real, more serious, and more artistic. Serious and artistic are inherently subjective qualities. Ee-ther/eye-ther, serious/artistic, let’s call the whole thing off. Real, though, is hardly subjective. Viewed in objective terms, color is far more real than black and white is - if only because color is such a defining element of reality as experienced by the human eye.
It’s fitting, then, that the 42 images that make up “Hymn to the Earth: Photographs by Ron Rosenstock’’ are in black and white. The show runs at the Worcester Art Museum through March 18.
The effect Rosenstock strives for in these pictures, mostly taken in rural Ireland but also in places as diverse (and beautiful) as Italy and Maine, Morocco and New Zealand, is of a higher, purer reality. You could almost describe it as a kind of unreality, given that exaltation and ineffability are forms of reality so rare as hardly to qualify as real.That Rosenstock achieves his aim so often is as much a tribute to the depth of emotion he brings to his work as it is to exacting technique. Seeing for him becomes a form of feeling - and maybe even thinking. In that regard, he resembles Minor White and Paul Caponigro, both of whom he studied with.
Seeing becomes, in fact, a variety of religious experience. It’s not an accident that several spiritual sites are among Rosenstock’s subjects, though the presence of an abbey or monastery or tomb is, in a sense, redundant. There’s such a sense of the divine implicit in the style. Although Rosenstock’s most characteristic work is landscape, what may be the thematic epitome of the show is an interior. “Congregational Church, Holden, Massachusetts’’ is less light and religion than light as religion.
Rosenstock’s images manage to be both chaste and spectacular. That’s an impressive pair of qualities, impressive not least of all in how vast is the gulf that usually separates them. There’s a beauty beyond beauty in so many of these images. But so much in between gets left out. It’s telling that a person appears in only one of the photographs. Another one includes a horse. That’s it for flesh and blood. In both cases, it’s so startling to see a living creature - and then further startling to realize it’s so startling. Their presence makes you realize how often these photographs convey an under-glass quality.
The exceptions underscore this. A photograph of the roof of the Duomo, in Milan (another religious site), reveals a spindly, witty beauty. An array of thin stone pinnacles looks like religious stalagmites, which makes the cathedral top akin to a roofless cave. The image is striking and funny (in both senses of the word) and refreshingly uncategorizable.
Or there’s the matter of cloth, both figurative and literal. Rosenstock has been going to Ireland for 40 years now. His connection to the place is so palpable in these images that he’s surely earned the right to start calling himself O’Rosenstock. In one of his Irish landscapes, “Sheeffry Wood, County Mayo, Ireland,’’ the moss covering the trees is so luxuriant it could be fabric.
That’s the figurative cloth. The literal comes in “Monks’ Robes, Saint Antimo Abbey, Montalcino, Tuscany.’’ Three white robes hang on hooks on a dark wall. Nothing could be less mannered or more plain. Such plainness comes as something of a relief, frankly. There’s a charm and sense of mystery to this image unlike any other in the show. In the thick folds of the monks’ homely attire there resides such a sense of humanity, of lives lived. So many of the other photographs in “Hymn to the Earth’’ have the effect of making you want to step back, slightly awed. With “Monks’ Robes,’’ there’s a religious impulse, too, though it’s much more mundane. The urge is to get closer, to try to touch the hem of these garments.
Monks' Robes, Sant'Antimo, Italy