Alan Friedman

Alan Friedman is an artist and astrophotographer who records our neighborhood star from his backyard in Buffalo, NY. He is a four-time recipient of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards hosted by the Royal Observatory and his solar portraits have been featured in the exhibition of the same name at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. His photography has been the subject of books, lectures, a TEDx talk, and featured on NASA’s popular website Astronomy Photograph of the Day (APOD). Alan’s work has been exhibited nationally, including a collaborative show Fire and Ice and a solo show Into the Light which was mounted at the Palm Court Gallery, Orange County, CA in conjunction with the Solar Decathlon. By day, Alan is president and CEO of Great Arrow Graphics, a greeting card publisher. He is a research associate at the Buffalo Museum of Science and a director of the Buffalo Astronomical Association.