Prices and Availability Subject To Change Without Notice

Jody Forster's base price for his 20" x 24" color prints is $800. Exceptions are noted below for the following prints:

"Peppermint Iceberg, Antarctica" $ 1000

Jody Forster's base price for his 20" x 24" silver prints is $800. Exceptions are noted below for the following prints:

"Acropolis and Storm, Superstition Mtns., Arizona" $ 900
"Alto Alto, Sierra Blance, Mexico" $ 900
"Ford Point, Monument Valley, Arizona" $1,000
"Gyachung Kang, Khumbu, Nepal" $1,000
"Iceberg, Palmer Station, Antarctica" $ 900
"Inner Gorge, Grand Canyon, Arizona" $1,000
"Moonrise Chukkung Glacier, Khumbu, Nepal" $ 900
"McDowell Portal, Mesa, Arizona" $1,200
"Shiprock, New Mexico" $1,800
"Sumner Butte, Grand Canyon, Arizona" $1,000
"Thunderstorm, Havasu Canyon, Arizona" $1,000
"Weaver's Needle (in shadow), Superstition Mountains, AZ" $1,000
"Winter Storm Clearing, Superstition Mountains, Arizona" $1,000

20" x 24" Silver Print Edition Numbers Price Tiers
1-50 $800
51-75 $900
76-100 $1,000
101-125 $1,200
126-150 $1,400
151-175 $1,800
176 -200 to be announced


Jody's black and white silver prints are selenium toned and mounted on acid-free museum board.

Albuquerque based photographer Jody Forster has achieved an impressive reputation as one of the finest landscape photographers working in the southwest. His spectacular, large format silver print photographs of southwest deserts, northern Mexico mountains and coastline, Nepal and Thailand, reveal him to be a master of vision and technique. Forster's dedication to the art and craft of photography is matched by his activities as an adventurer and outdoorsman.

Forster was born in Chicago in 1948. Following a commission in the Armed Forces he began to devote himself to photography, attending Ansel Adams' Yosemite workshop and studying with Oliver Gagliani. After 1976 he moved to Arizona to concentrate on photographing the Sonoran Desert, the Pinacate Mountains of Mexico and the Superstition Wilderness near Phoenix.

In 1978 Forster photographed Shiprock, New Mexico, the triangular crag of rock in northwestern New Mexico that is sacred to the Navajo. In what has become one of his most frequently printed photographs, three layers of cloud float within a dark rectangle of sky above the pinnacle of rock. Translated by the silver print into gradations of luminous whites, light greys and rich blacks, the composition consists of strong geometric forms set in exquisite balance.

Forster sometimes returns to a place ten to twenty times to secure the right photograph. In the darkroom he spends hours trying to recreate the energy and breadth of the landscapes. His prints contain a rich vocabulary of values ranging from strong black and white contrasts to subtle grey tones that describe the way natural forms interact with one another.

In 1984 Jody joined the American expedition to climb Mt. Himalchuli in the Himalayas. Though not a professional climber, he packed in 180 lbs., of which 80 lbs. was large format camera equipment. Fifty to one hundred mile an hour winds and constant storms restricted Forster to working at 16,000 to 18,000 feet. Often days or weeks passed before a break in the weather made photographing possible. During his nine months in Asia, Forster hiked 500 miles, climbed 150,000 vertical feet and covered three mountain ranges; the Annapurnas, the Gorkas, and the Khumbu.

In 1992 Forster was chosen by the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Program as Artist-in-Residence. He spent three months photographing Antarctica's vast landscape of crystalline shapes sculpted by the elements. Unstable weather made this Forster's most difficult photographic endeavor. Forster sailed more than one thousand miles along the Antarctic peninsula in the NSF research vessels. Among the many spectacular photographs he made on the trip is the dramatic Lallemand Fjord where snowcapped mountains rise 6000 feet above glassy waters. Forster's photographs made on this trip so impressed the National Science Foundation that he was invited back to Antarctica in 1995.