Daniel Forster • The Providence Art Club
Two Eyes & a Band-Aid
Daniel Forster
Forster, Glaser, & Rotblat-Walker: Two Eyes & a Band-Aid
Maxwell Mays Gallery • 11 Thomas Street, Providence RI 02903
March 26th - April 14th
Sunday - Friday • 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Or By Appointment
Free & Open to the Public
Visit The Providence Art Club from March 26 through April 14, 2023 for this curated exhibition featuring a variety of artworks from photographer Daniel Forster, mixed media artist Scott Glaser, & photographer Howard Rotblat-Walker.
It will be on view in the Maxwell Mays Gallery, located on the second floor of the Clubhouse.
The artist's works will be available for purchase through our online gallery, or their portfolio website.
The galleries will typically be closed on Saturdays and may be closed at other times due to Club functions or private events.
For questions about exhibitions, email Gallery Manager Michael Rose at michael@providenceartclub.org.
Artist Statement
Daniel Forster was born in Murten, Switzerland on Valentine's Day, 1948. After an apprenticeship in a photo studio in Berne, he became a freelance photographer in 1974. He has since covered thirteen America's Cups, 1977 - 2017, and twelve Olympic Games, 1972 - 2016, one of them the Winter Games in Calgary.
His photographs appear in every major Yachting magazine in Europe, the USA, New Zealand, Australia, and general interest magazines like TIME and STERN.
America's Cups became stepping stones in his career: In 1986/87, TIME magazine sent him to Perth, Australia for five months and displayed his picture of winner Dennis Conner on the February cover.
In 1986 he did Uruguay to England leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race on board the real-time winning maxi yacht UBS Switzerland as a crew member and photographer.
In 1988 Daniel moved from Switzerland to Rhode Island, USA, to be closer to the Sea! Daniel was the official photographer for Bill Koch's America3 team in 1992, which successfully defended America's Cup, and in 1995 he photographed the "Women's Team plus One" quest for America's Cup defense. TIME magazine celebrated Team New Zealand's Victory in 1995 with one of his photos on the cover.
In 1999/2000, he spent the shortest five months of his life reporting about America's Cup in Auckland, working for Young America.
2002/2003 did mean another five months in Auckland documenting Dennis Conner's STARS & STRIPES challenge.
Maxi yacht owners like Bill Koch, MATADOR, Larry Ellison, SAYONARA, and Jim Dolan, SAGAMORE, have commissioned Daniel to document their yacht's participation at major sailing events in book format.
In 2001/2002, he worked with "illbruck Challenge" to photograph their victorious global circumnavigation during the Volvo Ocean Race by traveling to each stop-over twice for each leg's start and finish. Not a new job either; it is his third time covering that race and doing all the stop-overs for a client.
Daniel won the Dr. Stanley Summer Award for Photography in 2019 and 2021.
Now Daniel is one of the official photographers in charge of the Rolex Yachting events, which means covering regattas like the Rolex Miami Olympic Class Regatta, St. Thomas, New York Yacht Club events, Rolex Fastnet Race, Rolex Big Boat Series in San Francisco, Rolex Swan Cup, Rolex Middle Sea Race, and the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
This hectic schedule still leaves time for cruising stories like sailing the Beagle Chanel, including a Cap Horn round or a trip to the Galapagos archipelago.
Daniel Forster lives in Jamestown, across the bridge from Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He sails or goes fishing with his daughter Daphne during his time off.
