Carol Stein is a photographer and visual artist based in New York and NW Connecticut. She works as both a fine art and documentary photographer.

In 2008 Carol will increase her domestic and international documentary work. At home she is now a part-time photojournalist for a local Connecticut newspaper. In the spring she will go to Tanzania and Mozambique to shoot health and nutrition projects for Helen Keller International.

Highlights of 2007 included a show of photographs and related paintings at The Harvard Club of New York City and Carol’s first book cover: John Fulton’s The Animal Girl, published by Louisiana State University Press.

In 2006 Carol shot for Connect-Africa, an NGO that works with AIDs orphans and microfinance projects in Uganda. In addition, in the Peruvian high Andes, Carol documented reforestation efforts sponsored by American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and associaciòn ecosistemas andinos (ECOÁN).

Carol’s fine art photography can be seen in her book, Accidental Paintings, recently described as “a must for photographers engaged in an artistic quest, important to all visual artists, and a provocative visual experience for all to enjoy.”

Introduced to design by Rudolph Arnheim at Harvard, Carol Stein later studied photography with Aaron Siskind at Illinois Institute of Technology and with Lisette Model in New York. Carol went on to medical school and a career in academic medicine: during the 1980s she was based at the University of Rochester Medical Center where her specialty was Preventive and Environmental Medicine. In the 1990s she founded a nonprofit that published information on environmental funding sources.

Carol’s return to the visual arts was by way of painting—she studied with Graham Nickson at the New York Studio School before rediscovering photography. In both her photographs and paintings she is a colorist: some of her fans call her “prismatic.” Carol recently published her first book of photographs, Accidental Paintings. Taken in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, this body of work consists of a series of highly saturated abstract color photographs that look like paintings. An exhibition of work from the book has traveled to several sites in the U.S. and Mexico.

2006

“Accidental Paintings—Photographs by Carol Stein.” Alan Cogan, Mexico Connect

2006

“Carol Stein at Authors’ Sala.” Atención, San Miguel de Allende, Feb 3-10

2005

“Carol Stein—Accidental Paintings: October Exhibit.” The Owl, Norfolk CT,
vol 14, no 4

2005

“Colorist Carol Stein at Norfolk Library.” Norfolk Now, Norfolk CT, vol 3, no 9

2005

Accidental Paintings, monograph published by Robin Hill Studios: Norfolk CT