Gary Green is an American photographer and teacher who grew up on Long Island, New York. He received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. He has taught photography at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, since 2007, where he built the photography program, and he lives in Maine.
From 1976 he photographed the downtown music and art scene of New York City for about ten years, starting at Max’s Kansas City and CBGB, while working by day as a photographer’s assistant. These pictures were published 44 years later as When Midnight Comes Around (Stanley/Barker, 2020). His other books include After Morandi (L’Artiere, 2016) and Almost Home (L’Artiere, 2024). Since 2019 he has been photographing the Long Island town where he grew up.
His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Amon Carter Museum, the Portland Museum of Art and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
