Neil Folberg was born in San Francisco in 1950, but
spent most of his childhood in the Midwestern United States, becoming
interested in photography around 1966. In 1967 he began studies
with Ansel Adams, the American landscape photographer. In 1968 Folberg
enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley which led through
a program of individualized study with William Garnett to a B.A.
in Photographic Field Studies. He was married in 1975 and in 1976
he and his wife settled in Jerusalem.
In 1979, Folberg began photographing in the Sinai,
working there until Sinai was returned to Egyptian control. His
desert landscapes have been collected together along with a text
that Folberg wrote in a book titled In a Desert Land: Photographs
of Israel, Egypt and Jordan by Neil Folberg published by Abbeville
Press of New York in 1987. He had a major retrospective exhibition
at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saone,
France in 1990/91. In 1992, he was commissioned by the Aperture
Foundation to photograph synagogues all over the world, published
by Aperture Press, New York. The book, And I Shall Dwell Among Them:
Historic Synagogues of the World was accompanied by travelling exhibitions
in Europe and the United States and publication of a portfolio of
EverColor pigment transfer prints by Aperture Press and Vision Editions.
He has returned to black-and-white work with his new series of photographs
of starry night landscapes set in ancient ruins and scenes of the
Middle East. This works has been collected together in the book,
Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land (Aperture Press, New
York 2001) He is often found in Vision Gallery in Jerusalem.
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