Sandy Luger, a freelance documentary photographer born in Newark, NJ in 1936. His becoming an amateur photographer was serendipitous. As a teen, his oldest son had demonstrated talent for photography while at summer camp. Sandy bought him a Canon AE 1 SLR and built him a darkroom. However, his interest waned almost immediately and so Sandy inherited the camera and began his passionate affair with photography.

However, because he had a family to support and a full time professional career as a pharmacist, his making of pictures was time limited.  Recognizing his need to explore the medium, he spent the next decade taking workshops working with some of the best professional photographers he could find.  He studied with Miguel Gandert, Ernesto Bazan, Arlene Collins among others. At workshops in Maine, New Mexico, Mexico, Ireland and France. This way he was able to recognize his strengths and limitations. 

After retirement, photography became his central pursuit –his essential way of communicating his vision of the world, of life, social justice, sadness, pain, suffering, injustice and beauty.

Sandy has been in 3 Group shows in Manhattan and most recently had a one man show at the Library of the International Center of Photography (ICP). He is a patron at ICP, serving on several key committees and sponsors a partial scholarship for full time students in the General Studies Program or Documentary & Photojournalism programs.