George Forss, a native New Yorker, is a self-taught photographer who was discovered in 1980 by renowned photographer David Douglas Duncan. Duncan produced a book of his art called New York, New York: Masterworks of a Street Peddler. George's trademark is his black-and-white photography, which has been shown in some of the most prestigious galleries and museums in the world such as The New York Public Library in NYC on 5th Avenue, the Grenoble and Orange Museums of France, and the Brooklyn Museum and Park Slope Gallery in Brooklyn. He has been featured in major publications and has been the subject of two documentaries. Since 2007, George has been busy self-publishing books that are of his personal vein and three photography books, one that is a tribute to his mother, Norma Forss. Norma Forss' portraits in B&W, taken with a classic Box Camera, are her would-be claim to fame. George gets good Kirkus Reviews of his writings. George Forss is becoming a renowned writer even if he has to 'Forss' the world to acknowledge him. There is something very special about the way that he writes... in a natural/spiritual way... as he is apt to explain.