Hudson River Photographer Celebrates 50 Years
On Saturday, March 22, the Beczak Environmental Center will celebrate photographer Joseph Squillante. This year Joseph Squillante is celebrating his 50th anniversary of photographing the Hudson River. This collection travels 316 miles from its source in the Adirondack Mountains to New York Harbor.
Well-respected by the Hudson River community, he works with organizations such as Riverkeeper, Clearwater and Scenic Hudson who has recognized him as a “Hudson Valley Hero.”
His mission is to foster an awareness of the river’s visual magnificence through photography. To this end he and his wife, Carol Capobianco, have founded the Hudson River School of Photography; cultivating an appreciation for the Hudson through workshops, lecture presentations, in-classroom talks, lessons, exhibitions, and note cards and prints.
A number of his photographs are in the permanent collections of the New-York Historical Society, Museum of the City of New York, Albany Institute of History and Art, The New York State Museum and Hudson River Museum.
In celebration of Joseph’s anniversary the Hudson River Museum has granted him a solo exhibition from May 6th to October 19th.
Joseph’s work also includes portraiture, still life and abstraction and is sold internationally through Getty Images, and through his own Silver Ink® studio, in Peekskill, NY.
He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers, ArtsWestchester Teaching Artist Roster, Peekskill Arts Alliance and is a current Board Member of the Peekskill Herald. He formerly served as Vice-Chair of the Historic and Landmarks Preservation Board for the City of Peekskill.
