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Ed Siarkowicz (Shar-Ko-vich) grew up in the Hamlet of Bayport, a small seaside community on the south shore of New York’s Long Island. With nearby Fire Island National Seashore his playground, he established an early relationship with the outdoors and wildlife. His love for photography began when he was nine years old and won a Kodak Instamatic camera.
At 15, with a commercial clamming license, Ed became a local “Bayman” piloting his craft, with camera in hand, to local rivers, estuaries, marshlands and pine barrens.
His photographic vision broadened in 1988 when he traveled to central Montana working as a research assistant with Paleoichyologist Dr. Richard Lund. Montana’s “Big Sky” landscape and its rugged people captivated his heart. His photographic appreciation of the West deepened two years later during a trip to northern California.
His love and appreciation of Nature set the stage in 2012 for him becoming the photographer of Florida’s “Rising Sea Level in the Matanzas Basin” study, and in 2014 as the photographer for both Flagler County’s Chamber of Commerce and Tourist Development Council.
A chance encounter with Pierre Matisse revolutionized his concept of photography. The two became fast friends and joined with John Olivo traveling throughout Florida in search of impressionistic water reflections. Some of Ed’s fondest memories came from watching his mentors magnify each other through the work and listening to their photographic “war stories.”
Ed’s photographic art is on display in offices of famous people, including George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, U.S. Rep. Michael Maltz, Gov. Ron DeSantis and others.
Ed Siarkowicz (Shar-Ko-vich) grew up in the Hamlet of Bayport, a small seaside community on the south shore of New York’s Long Island. With nearby Fire Island National Seashore his playground, he established an early relationship with the outdoors and wildlife. His love for photography began when he was nine years old and won a Kodak Instamatic camera.
At 15, with a commercial clamming license, Ed became a local “Bayman” piloting his craft, with camera in hand, to local rivers, estuaries, marshlands and pine barrens.
His photographic vision broadened in 1988 when he traveled to central Montana working as a research assistant with Paleoichyologist Dr. Richard Lund. Montana’s “Big Sky” landscape and its rugged people captivated his heart. His photographic appreciation of the West deepened two years later during a trip to northern California.
His love and appreciation of Nature set the stage in 2012 for him becoming the photographer of Florida’s “Rising Sea Level in the Matanzas Basin” study, and in 2014 as the photographer for both Flagler County’s Chamber of Commerce and Tourist Development Council.
A chance encounter with Pierre Matisse revolutionized his concept of photography. The two became fast friends and joined with John Olivo traveling throughout Florida in search of impressionistic water reflections. Some of Ed’s fondest memories came from watching his mentors magnify each other through the work and listening to their photographic “war stories.”
Ed’s photographic art is on display in offices of famous people, including George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, U.S. Rep. Michael Maltz, Gov. Ron DeSantis and others.