Alan Friedman: Starlight

Alan Friedman is an artist and astrophotographer who records our neighborhood star from his backyard in Buffalo, NY. The photographs in this exhibition were recorded from his Buffalo backyard using a small telescope. Filters placed in front allow only a small fraction of the sun’s energy to reach the camera. Varying filters reveals different aspects of solar energy.

Alan is a four-time recipient of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year award hosted by the Royal Observatory, and his solar portraits have been featured in the exhibition of the same name at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. His photography has been the subject of books, lectures, a TEDx talk, and featured on NASA’s popular website Astronomy Photograph of the Day (APOD). Alan’s work has been exhibited nationally, including a collaborative show Fire and Ice and a solo show Into the Light which was mounted at the Palm Court Gallery, Orange County, CA in conjunction with the Solar Decathlon. By day, Alan is president and CEO of Great Arrow Graphics, a greeting card publisher. He is a research associate at the Buffalo Museum of Science and a director of the Buffalo Astronomical Association.