Pucker Gallery

Cary Wolinsky

Represented by Pucker Gallery since 1988

BORN: 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
DIED: 2023 Massachusetts

Cary passed away unexpectedly on Friday, June 16, 2023.

His family writes, “We want to share the passing of our beloved husband and father, Cary Wolinsky. There are no words to express the depth of this loss for all the people who loved him and were loved by him.

Cary was a man defined by his generosity: he was generous with his time and talent, his joy and enthusiasm, his trust and his respect. He was capable of truly seeing a person and treasured every unique and wild soul he encountered. He was a lover of the absurd, and his curiosity was as big as the whole world. He always stopped to examine what others passed by. If there was beauty in any moment or any place, Cary would find it.

The light that he always looked for, the light that inspired him as an artist, is the light that he brought into our lives. 

He will always have our love. We will miss him every day.

Babs, Yari and Amber

We ask that donations in his name be made to the North and South Rivers Watershed Association, the local environmental advocate that protects the places Cary loved to walk the most.

Cary Wolinsky worked as a news photographer for The Boston Globe in 1968 while completing a degree in photojournalism at Boston University. Soon after graduating, Wolinsky received assignments from national publications including Natural History, Smithsonian, Newsweek, and International Wildlife.

In 1972, Wolinsky began his 35-year career as a National Geographic photographer, producing picture essays in Europe, Africa, Russia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Peru, India, China, and Japan. His photographs have been published in books and magazines throughout the world. His photographic prints have been acquired by museums and private collectors in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia.

Wolinsky co-founded the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University and TRIIIBE, an artists collaborative. He worked with his son Yari, a filmmaker, and his wife Babs, a graphic designer, making documentary films. Their company, Trillium Studios Films, produced Raise the Roof, a feature-length documentary about the reconstruction of an 18th-century Polish wooden synagogue. The film has been featured at more than 150 film festivals and is currently being broadcast on public television stations across the US.

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