The Awards Collective was created to feature the works of artists who have received either a Juror’s Award or Director’s Award in ASG’s Online exhibitions.  Glen Serbin’s image Dune Study received the Juror’s Award in the elsewhere exhibition juried by Kevin Tully.  Glen’s exhibition Ice and Sand is discussed in this GalleryTalk.

Artist Statement

“Photography has been a lifelong pursuit for me—a way of seeing and connecting with the world. My work focuses on uncovering the forms, shadows, and intricate patterns that nature reveals through its constant shaping and reshaping.

Over the past two years, I have concentrated on documenting the compositions embedded in glaciers and sand dunes across the globe. Though ice and sand are vastly different elements, both serve as canvases for the forces of wind and weather, which carve out strikingly similar rhythms of line, structure, and pattern.

In September 2024, the Lucie Foundation sponsored an exhibition of my series Fire and Ice at their gallery in Budapest, Hungary. The exhibition later traveled to Athens, Greece, in June 2025. At the conclusion of the Athens showing, select images were donated to Greenpeace in Budapest in support of their fundraising efforts.

I work exclusively in black and white to strip away the distraction of color, allowing viewers to experience the sheer intricacy of these environments—shapes, textures, and tonal subtleties illuminated by natural light. The influence of German photographer Karl Blossfeldt and American landscape photographer Ansel Adams is deeply present in my vision. Like them, I am compelled by the way light defines a subject’s form, atmosphere, and presence.

For decades, I worked as an editor and publisher in both commercial and fine art photography. Today, I am fully committed to my practice as a fine art photographer, with a devotion to monochrome landscapes and still life subjects.”

Glen Servin
December, 2025

Bio

Photography has been at the center my professional and creative life for almost half a century.

I am inspired by the work of German photographer Karl Blossfeldt and influenced by the American landscape photographer Ansel Adams. For me, it is essential to relay how an artist sees and uses light-it is what interests me the most about any photo. I am always interested in the quality of light that defines the shape, feel and detail of each subject.

From 1977-2018, I was the founder, publisher and editor of Photographer’s Forum magazine. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. has acknowledged Photographer’s Forum magazine’s importance by archiving all issues from November 1978-November 2018. The University of Missouri, School of Media Arts and Journalism library has archived all editions of Photographer’s Forum magazine.

In 2018 my publishing company was sold. I am now dedicated, full-time, to fine art photography, and as such, devoted to monochrome images of landscape and still life.

website:  serbin.com

instagram:  @glen.serbin

link to online exhibition