Cary Sol Wolinsky 1947 - 2023

There are no words to express the depth of this loss for all the people who loved him and were loved by him.

Cary was a man defined by his generosity: he was generous with his time and talent, his joy and enthusiasm, his trust and his respect. He was capable of truly seeing a person and treasured every unique and wild soul he encountered. He was a lover of the absurd, and his curiosity was as big as the whole world. He always stopped to examine what others passed by. If there was beauty in any moment or any place, Cary would find it.

The light that he always looked for, the light that inspired him as an artist, is the light that he brought into our lives.

VISUAL MEMORIES & LIMITED EDITION, ARCHIVAL PRINTS

NamibiaN Sandhouses

The Namib, the oldest desert on earth, preserves the exquisite corpse of the German West African diamond-mining town called Kolmanskop.

Garfield Projections

Evidence of the brief existence of glass, metal and wood sculptures created solely to conjure evocative images by projecting and diffracting sunlight.

Threads

Each piece of fabric unwittingly holds a piece of the very story of civilization, and the part of the world that gave it life. —Issey Miyake, 2012

triiibe

Photographs created by Cary Wolinsky and artists Alicia, Kelly and Sara Casilio (identical triplets) during their intense, five-year collaboration.

Anatomy of a story

The Cotton Project explores one article's creation. Focusing on the photographer's role, it looks at the project's inception as an idea through to a finished article in the National Geographic.

TORAH

Hundreds of laws govern the most minute details of the materials and the writing of Torah.

Portraits

Cary loved finding and making portraits of people and animals—and even plants.

green australia

Australia is dramatic, difficult, magnificent, unpredictable and hard to manage, and when it comes to protecting it or using it, Australia’s people are the same.

to be human

Our bodies are a mosaic of features shaped by natural selection over vast periods of time—both exquisitely capable and deeply flawed. — Jennifer Ackerman

MY USA

Iconic images from Cary’s travels throughout the United States

Quest for Color

Sources of color were jealously guarded. Pigments of purple, saffron, and utramarine were at times worth their weight in gold.

Sichuan

Deng Xiaoping’s experiment in modernization took place in Sichuan after the cultural revolution. Cary was there to photograph it.

CARY’S PRINTS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AT PUCKER GALLERY