Beautiful, poignant and often unsettling, Frank Noelker’s  photographs of animals have enthralled viewers for over 20 years. Of Animals: Photographs by Frank Noelker is a retrospective of images from his Captive Beauty, Portraits and Farm Sanctuary series.  The exhibit opens Friday, June 12 at the Sheldon Art Galleries and runs through September 5.

A Lunchtime Lecture in Photography will be given by Frank Noelker on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 11 a.m. in the Gallery of Photography. Admission is free.

Noelker works in the tradition of the “Concerned Photographer” – documentary photographers who use their images to invoke and inspire social change. His black and white and color photographs of animals in captivity and in sanctuaries do much to make us think about our relationship to the natural world.