About Us

Glen Serbin is a fine art photographer that works primarily with still life and landscapes. Inspired by the work of German photographer Karl Blossfeldt and American photographer Ansel Adams, Serbin is fascinated by how light transforms everything we see.

Serbin was born in Chicago Illinois in 1954. Photography has been at the center of Serbin’s life since he was a boy creating images in the darkroom.

Upon receiving a degree in History from UCLA in 1976, he decided to pursue photography as a career and enrolled at the Brooks Institute of Photography.

After one year at Brooks Institute, Serbin discussed the idea for a magazine devoted to publishing work by emerging photographers.

Glen Serbin sought the advice of Ansel Adams in 1978. Because Ansel Adams saw many magazines fail and Serbin had no publishing experience, Ansel was very cautious of the idea. If Photographer’s Forum was published, Ansel did agree to be interviewed.

In 1978 Glen Serbin secured funding to launch Photographers Forum magazine. Photographers Forum magazine was devoted to publishing professional and emerging photographers in the United States.

Serbin was the founder, publisher and editor of Photographer’s Forum magazine from 1977-2018. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. has archived Photographer’s Forum magazine from November 1978-November 2019.

In 1987 Glen Serbin and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Photography were invited by the Latvian Cultural Committee to visit Russia and curate a show of Soviet photography in the United States. The show, Comrades and Cameras, opened at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 1991. A companion book with the same title was published by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. 

In addition to publishing and editing Photographer’s Forum magazine, his forty year involvement with photography and the creative arts includes over fifteen titles published and edited in photography, commercial illustration, handmade jewelry, medical illustration and animation fields.

For almost twenty years, Glen Serbin was the creator of the AtEdge marketing program . The AtEdge program included the world’s top commercial photographers as clients.

Glen Serbin’s devotion and love for the art of photography led him to create Verso Limited Editions. The photography publishing imprint, Verso Limited Editions, was established in 2008 and draws on the traditional handcrafted book form to celebrate the work of significant photographic artists.

The photography titles Magnum Founders, A Celebration of 60 Years and Bruce Davidson, Central Park in Platinum were published through the Verso imprint are now part of the permanent collections of J. Paul Getty Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Library of Congress, the United States Federal Reserve Boards Fine Arts Program, Foundation Museum of Henri Cartier-Bresson Museum, Chrysler Museum,Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporay Photography at Columbia College in Chicago as well as numerous private photography collections throughout the world.

In 2009, The Lucie Foundation presented Serbin the Book Publisher of the Year award at the Lincoln Center in New York for the photography title Bruce Davidson, Central Park in Platinum.

In 2013 Glen Serbin was inducted into the Walter Williams Society at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Serbin is also a Detroit Institute of the Arts Fellow.

The publishing titles created by Glen Serbin (Serbin Communications, Inc.) were sold in 2018.