Lynn Karlin Photography

• Lynn Karlin Photography
• lynn@lynnkarlinphoto.com
• 207-338-4814
• Instagram @lynn.karlin

Originally from NYC, Lynn graduated from Pratt Institute. She lived the farm-to-table experience for 8 years after moving from N.Y.C to a farm in Maine in 1983 and photographing her life with the seasons. Lynn has an impressive list of employers and clients over her long career shooting fashion for Women's Wear Daily and W as the first woman staff photographer, as well as photographing gardens, food and interiors for Country Living magazine, House Beautiful, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Coastal Living, Gourmet, Design New England, BH&G, Garden Design, Organic Gardening, Yankee, Gardens Illustrated, Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, Taproot, Table, Ordinary, Edible, Zest, AAP, FotoNostrum, Rfotofolio, Faire Magazine, Femme Actuelle Jeux Délices, Random House, Rizzoli Books, Time & Life Books, L.L.Bean, Swans Island Company, Rockport Granite, and Veuve Clicquot.

Sole photographer of three award winning garden/lifestyle books, Lynn now adds fine art photography to the mix and works with clients in the food world. Her body of work is purely personal. It is about the obvious but often overlooked beauty of the harvest. Visits to photograph at local Maine farmer's markets took a new direction when she brought a stunning purple cauliflower back to her studio and placed it on an old white pedestal by an east-facing window, honoring vegetables by literally placing them on a higher level. Lynn triumphs in showing her reverence for the remarkable colors and forms in the garden. The Pedestal Series and The Tray Series evoke, through beauty that is also sustenance, a sense of connectedness to this planet. She has also added simple man-made kitchen objects to her still lifes, again showing good design can be found everywhere if you take the time to really look.

Lynn's newest portrait series Still Lives:Stories in Profile takes on human subjects this time and shows the side that is often not seen and observed - the profile. "Photographing a person in profile is like discovering that person all over again."

Lynn's limited edition prints are available from the artist, galleries and select specialty shops and are held by corporate and private collectors throughout the US and Europe. For more info see our Contact page.

BOOKS & CALENDARS:

Maine Farm, A Year of Country Life, written by Stanley Joseph; Random House.

Gardens Maine Style and Gardens Maine Style Act ll, written by Rebecca Sawyer-Fay; Downeast Books.

• Simply Raw wall calendars; Amber Lotus Publishing; 2013 -2019

• Super Foods wall calendars: Amber Lotus Publishing: 2019 - 2025;

• Lynn Karlin/ Food Stills, 2024 & 2025; Weingarten, Germany; Available Amazon.de; www.athesia-verlag.de

AWARDS:

2024- World Food Photography Awards; 4 food still lifes selected for online Commended Gallery.

2023- New York Center for Photographic Art; Juror's Selection; Botanicals

2023- 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award; Portraits; Honorable Mention

2023- 18th Annual Black & White Spider Awards; Honorable Mention; Still Life

2022- Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year; Shortlisted for 5 still lifes

2022- New York Center for Photographic Art; Juror's Selection; Still Life

2021- FotoNostrum Portfolio Competition; Portraits; Selected to be featured in FotoNostrum online magazine, issue No. 19, September 2021.

2021- tifa, Tokyo International Foto Awards; Gold and Bronze Winner; Still Life

2021-16th Edition Julia Cameron Awards; 2nd Place; Still Life Series

2021- LensCulture- Portraits Awards; Competitions Gallery; Editor's Picks

2020- tifa, Tokyo International Foto Awards; Silver Winner; The Pedestal Series

2020-Prix de la Photographie Paris; Bronze Award, Series in Portrait Category

2020-15th Pollux Awards, Series in Portraiture Category; Honorable Mention

2020- AAP International Photo Awards & Magazine #10; Merit Award; Portraits

2020- 15th Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Awards; Winner in Still Life Category

2020- New York Center for Photographic Arts; Juror's Selection; Botanicals

2019- Selected to be exhibited in Paris, France at the Edelkoort Gallery to represent Trend Union's "Green Wave" 2021 trend season; The Pedestal Series; Solo Show

2019- Circle Foundation for the Arts; Finalist for Artist of the Year Awards; Lyon, Paris; Still Life

2018- Maine Arts Commission Project Grant for Portrait Series

2018- Prix de la Photographie Paris; Honorable Mention, Portrait Category

2018- 2nd Robert Cornelius Portrait Award; Runner Up.

2017- The London International Creative Competition, Fine Art, The Tray Series

2017- Prix de la Photographie Paris; Gold Award, Fine Art, Still Life Series

2017- 10th Annual Pollux- Gala Awards- Winner in Portrait Category

2017- Center for Fine Art Photography; Winner in Portrait Category

2017- 12th Annual Black & White Spider Awards, Still Life

2016- International Color Award: Honorable Mention; Food Category

2016- 8th Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Award; Winner in Fine Art Category.

2015- 10th Annual Black & White Spider Awards; Outstanding Achievement in the Still Life Category.

2015- Prix De La Photographie Paris; Gold Award, Fine Art, Still Life Series

2015- Garden Writers Association; Gold Award for Best Photography.

2015- 7th Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Award; Winner in Still Life & Abstractions Category.

2015- 7th Pollux Awards; Runner- up, Still Life category.

2015- Griffin Museum of Photography's 21st Juried Exhibition; Winchester, MA.

2015- International Color Award; Honorable Mention; Food.

2015- ArtForward; Bronze Award Winner.

2014- London International Creative Competition Honorable Mention.

2014 - The Center for Fine Art Photography; Fort Collins, Colorado; International Still Life Competition; Best of Show.

2013 - San Francisco International Photography Exhibition, Gallery Photographica; Gold Medal Winner.

2013 - Photo District News, Objects of Desire; Food and Still Life Category.

2013 - Garden Writers Association Media Awards, Silver Awards of Achievement for Photography in 4 categories.

2012 - Merit Award, Color + B/W Magazine.

WRITE-UPS & INTERVIEWS:

Maine Arts Journal; Fall, 2024; Featured in Portrait Issue

Rotary Magazine; Germany; Still Life Selection; 2023

FotoNostrum magazine; Profile portraits featured; 2023

Femme Actuelle Jeux Délices #32; France; Still Life Portfolio; Dec. 2023

All About Photo; AAP; Profile Portraits featured; https://www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer/1023/lynn-karlin

Rfotofolio https://rfotofolio.org/2023/01/15/lynn-karlin/

Faire Magazine https://www.fairepress.com/journal/lynnkarlin

Maine Museum of Photographic Arts https://www.mainemuseumofphotographicarts.org/new-page-34

The New York Times http://tinyurl.com/nrs8h9a

Maine Mag. https://tinyurl.com/jt5pz3c

Bangor Daily News http://tinyurl.com/hrbdtwq

San Francisco Chronicle http://tinyurl.com/pulvcel

London's Sunday Telegraph http://tinyurl.com/lsjgu2

• REPRESENTATION:

• Leslie Curtis Designs - 8 Bayview Street; Camden

• Kingman Gallery - Deer Isle, Maine.
• www.kingmangallery.com

• Cygnet Gallery -322 Main Street, Southwest Harbor, Maine; www.thecygnetgallery.com

• Warm Springs Gallery- Warm Springs, VA.; www. warmspringsgallery.com

• Upstart Modern - Sausalito, CA.

• PAST EXHIBITIONS

• Maine Museum of Photographic Arts; Figurative - The Body As Language; 2024; 15 Middle Street, Portland, Maine.
• Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, Virginia; 2024
• Maine Museum of Photographic Arts; Traditional Painting Genres in Photography; 15 Middle Street; Portland, Maine. 2023
• Cygnet Gallery, Southwest Harbor, Maine; 2023; Solo Show.
• Maine Museum of Photographic Arts; Portland, Maine; 2022-3
• S.E. Center for Photography; Greenville, SC.; "Botanicals" ; 2022.
• PhotoPlace Gallery; Middlebury, Vermont; "Found Objects"; 2022.
• 6th Edition of the Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography; FotoNostrum Gallery; Still Life; Barcelona, Spain; 2022.
• Cove Street Arts- Portland, Maine; Harvest Seasons; Group Show; 2021.
• Frontier Restaurant; Brunswick, Maine; Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Vegetable Portraits; Solo Show; 2020.
• Edelkoort Gallery, Paris, France; Solo Show; The Pedestal Series; 2019.
• Thos. Moser Gallery, Freeport, Maine; 2019.
• Kingman Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine; Solo Show; Still Life; 2019.
• Maine Jewish Museum, Portland; Art of The Vegetable, Solo Show; 2019.
• Maine State House, Augusta, Maine; Vegetable Still Life; 2018.
• Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Glickman Library; Portland, ME; Contemporary Portraiture; 2018.
• Warm Springs Gallery; Warm Springs, VA.; Solo Show, Still Life; 2018.
• The Center for Fine Art Photography; Fort Collins, Colorado; Portraits 2018.
• 4th Biennial Fine Art & Documentary Photography; Berlin, Germany; 2016.
• Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast, Maine; Solo Show; October 2016.
• Griffin Museum of Photography; "Nourish"; Boston, MA.; 2015.
• Griffin Museum of Photography; Juried Exhibition; Winchester, MA; 2015
• Kingman Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine; "Inspired from Nature"; Solo Show; 2015.
• Islesford Dock Restaurant & Gallery; Little Cranberry Island, Maine; 2015.
• Vox Photographs; Portland, Maine; "Natural"; 2015.
• The Boston Print Fair at Boston Design Week ; 555 Gallery; 2015.
• The Center for Fine Art Photography; Fort Collins, Colorado; International Still Life Competition; Best of Show; 2014.
• Maine Farmland Trust Gallery, "Natural Beauties"; Belfast, Maine; 2014.
• James Beard House Greenhouse Gallery, The Pedestal Series; NYC; 2013.
• San Francisco International Photo Exhibition, Gallery Photographica; 2013.
• Gallery on the Green, Pawling, New York; (See Anne Raver's write-up in The New York Times above.) The Pedestal Series; 2012
• Ethel H. Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic; Bar Harbor, Maine; 2011.
• Palmina F. & Stephen S. Pace Galleries of Fryeburg Academy; Fryeburg, Maine; 2012.
• George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine; 2012.
• Anita Pegnini-Raber Gallery, Rehoboth Beach, DE.; 2011.
• Hammertown stores and galleries, Rhinebeck & Pine Plains, New York; 2010
• Carver Hill Gallery, Rockport, Maine; 2010.