Stan Singer’s career as a financial advisor has inspired his perception of the world around him when creating photographic images. Looking at the big picture, communicating with individuals, reading between the lines, being alert to details, interpreting body language, comprehending the interaction between people and their environment, and using intangibles while leading efforts to a successful conclusion, guide his art. He tries to look into people, as well as at them. While pondering a scene, he not only is conscious of what the scene is, but what it is about. Composition, more easily falls into place as these elements direct his thinking.
His subjects are very varied and range from colorful and beautiful scenery, to street photography, to black and white candid portraits expressing emotion of the moment. His sense is that there are worthy images everywhere and enjoys the challenge of finding them. While traveling extensively with his wife, he seeks to interpret his current environment and sense of place, as well as the people that inhabit and create it. Beauty, sensitivity, exhilaration, loneliness, happiness, pride, and many of the emotional senses that we all experience, find interpretation in Stan’s images.
Stan has won numerous awards and received recognition for his images. His photographs appeared in the February and March 2007 issues of Shutterbug magazine and in the March 2007 issue of Cowboys and Indians magazine (billed as the premier magazine of the West). In the latter's 2007 annual photography contest, he won first prize in the portrait category for his black and white image of a cowboy. He has also been published in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Two of his images won Merit Awards and were published in the February 2008 special issue of Black and White magazine. His photograph, "Feelin' Jazzy" appeared in the March 2008 issue of Shutterbug magazine. Stan's image of "Winging It" appeared in the October 2008 issue of Shutterbug. His image of “George’s Lake” was published in the May/June 2008 issue of Pennsylvania magazine. Stan's image of "Help Me" won a Gold Award and "Dressy Lady" won a Merit Award and it is published in the February 2009 issue of Black & White Magazine. This issue highlights the winners of its 2009 annual international photography competition.
A solo exhibition of Stan's photographs was held at Abington Art Center (in the northern Philadelphia suburbs) from December 8th to December 22nd, 2007. From December 2, 2008 until January 8, 2009 Stan will be a featured artist when his work is exhibited at the Cosmopolitan Club in Philadelphia.