Sherry Rubel

 SHERRY RUBEL has been immersed in photography since childhood, beginning in her father’s darkroom. He was a professional, award-winning photographer and filmmaker/editor as well as a leader in New Jersey theatre as a director and actor. 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 over 10 years. Sherry enthusiastically states, “ART has been my life.”

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. Formerly, a staff photographer with the award-winning Crossroads Theater and freelancer for Patch.com.

Contributing photographer for the NYC Jazz Record, and developing other music-oriented photo projects, Sherry has worked most recently on independent projects stemming from her time documenting Tent City, a controversial homeless encampment. She was 1 of 6 out of 100’s of applicants to be chosen for Solo Exhibit at New Jersey Emerging Artist 2015 - Monmouth Museum, had Galleries 1 & 2 for a Solo Exhibit at Ocean County Artist Guild in June 2016 and had a Solo Exhibit - "Stolen Dignity, Latent Souls" at Camden Fireworks  –  April 28-May 10 of 2019.  A collection of 25 "Living Legacies" portraits was purchased for permanent exhibition at the Actors' Fund Home in Englewood, NJ.  

The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and Sherry are developing a photographic exhibit and book addressing the narrative of women playing jazz. Shifting the Jazz Narrative: photo essays of women instrumentalists, we seek to contribute to the corrective work of reshaping the way jazz is perceived and presented.

"Beneath the Underground" is a photo-journalism project documenting the free jazz, post-punk and avant-garde community of music, literary, visual, and theatrical artists within outsider NYC. Birthed on social media, plans are being laid for the publication of a book featuring photography of Sherry Rubel and prose and poetry of John Pietaro, amplifying the hidden stories and faces within the creative experience.  

Sherry has been called upon to document a variety of events such as behind the scenes video projects within the NYC music & dance industries. 

She is an award winning photographer who's work has landed in publications ranging from the New York Times to regional media. 

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