BIOGRAPHY

Rich Klein is an accomplished, award-winning photographer based in northeast Pennsylvania and Parma, Italy who specializes in creating timeless portraits that can be cherished today and by future generations.

In late 2024, he will publish a book “30 Women Over 50” From One Town” based on portraits he made from 2018-2024 of women from his hometown of Massapequa, NY.

His background as a landscape/cityscape photographer comes in handy when he and his clients are searching for bucolic locations for outdoor portrait sessions.

In September 2021, he won first place in photography at the Roselle Park NJ Arts Festival and second place in photography at the 30th Annual Art & Music Festival hosted by the Edgewater NJ Arts Council.

Klein's The Catskills of Sullivan County: A Photography Journey is the first volume of its kind to depict the splendor of upstate New York region in the 21st Century. He is also co-author of Massapequa: A Pictorial History Through The Eyes of Baby Boomers.

His works are permanently displayed at the Northwell Health/GoHealth Urgent Care Center and the Central Avenue Public Library in his hometown of Massapequa, New York.

In upstate New York, a selection of his Catskills book's prints are on exhibit at the Sullivan County Government Center in Monticello and were displayed for five years at the Villa Roma Resort in Callicoon.

In 2024, he was one of five artists in an exhibition at the Narrowsburg Union that ran for three months.

Klein also has a love for street photography and has captured locals in the Catskills, New York City, Budapest, multiple cities in Italy and Paris.

Klein is a member of the Professional Photographers of America, the Wayne County, PA Arts Alliance, Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau, the Liberty NY Museum and Arts Center, The Fort Lee Artist Guild, and was previously a member of The Fort Lee Regional Chamber of Commerce, Creative Bergen and Bethel, NY Council of the Arts.

Born in Manhattan, Klein grew up in Massapequa Park, NY but spent all his childhood summers in the Catskills and Poconos at sleepaway camps.

He graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a degree in Journalism - and won a national sports reporting award in 1985 for his work at The Ithaca Journal. He spent most of the past three decades working as a public relations/crisis communications consultant.

He and his wife, Carol Brooks, recently relocated from Fort Lee, New Jersey to The Hideout in Lake Ariel, PA. They also spent a few months a year living and working in Parma, Italy.