Highland Mills photographer launches exhibit

Highland Mills - Highland Mills photographer Kenneth Lipston says he has a unique vision of reality and he wants to share it with others. Lipston’s subjects include nature, the human form and photo-journalistic views of cloistered societies. His new exhibit will be opening on Oct. 1 at the Link Gallery, located in the Ellenville Public Library and Museum, 40 Center Street, Ellenville. A reception will take place on Oct. 6, from 12:30 to 2.30 p.m. and the pictures will be on exhibit through Oct. 30. “I try to point out to people through my photography the surreal and beautiful within the vistas and sights around us that are often missed,” Lipton says. “I strive for realism within my work, and try to recreate in two dimensions what I originally saw.” Kenneth Lipston was born and reared in Brooklyn and had an early fascination with capturing images of his world. At the age of 10 he started his journey by buying photographic paper and exposing contact prints using sunlight. At that time he was an avid user of a Brownie Starlet Camera. Several years later he acquired an Edixa 35mm rangefinder camera and became a self-taught student in the many aspects of photography. Today, Lipson says, his quest continues, as his equipment evolved through many generations of 35-mm reflex cameras and several digital cameras. Today he uses a Canon 20D digital camera and a full digital workflow producing archival prints. He offers limited prints, made by the artist himself, using this museum approved process Exhibitions include “Phantasm on Film”, The Korby Gallery, Cedar Grove, NJ; “Amish Life”, Soho Photo Gallery, New York City; IPOSA (International Photo Optical Show Association) international exhibitions and various group shows.