Carmine Angeloni

“In the words of the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, ‘Much of photography is observation, to tell a story, or record a moment; to place head and heart and eye along the same line of sight’. This well describes the way in which I try to capture what I see.” I am a self-taught photographer living in northeastern Connecticut. I regard my dad as my early influence, and the iconic Argus C3 rangefinder camera as my early obsession, at a time when black and white pictures were still predominant. Primarily a landscape and cityscape photographer, I would say that I take inspiration from a wide-range of work, including that of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, the acclaimed Joel Meyerowitz, and the Italian abstract landscape photographer, Franco Fontana. My artistic and technical training experiences date back to darkroom work at the Massachusetts College of Art, now MassArt (Boston, Mass.) in the 1960s, and Maine Photographic Workshops, now Maine Media (Rockport, Maine) in the 1970s. I am fortunate to exhibit in juried shows, and have been an exhibitor at the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton and Marlborough, Massachusetts. I am a current member of the Art Guild Northeast and New Hampshire Art Association, and have recently completed an Artist Residency at the Edwin Way Teale Trail Wood Sanctuary in Hampton, Connecticut.