Find new ways to play the old song. In a medium as commonplace as color landscape photography, this becomes the challenge. For 30 years John Todaro has been trying to capture images that are more than simply decorative. On one level or another, his goal with each picture is to find a way to startle the viewer. In landscape photography, especially in color, this often means finding images of profound simplicity or eventfulness. 

John's interest in photography began in Northport NY in 1975 after signing up for one of Anthony Nobile’s black and white workshops. His teacher had been a student of Minor White’s, and was a photographer with work in major collections. Over the next few years John continued to work in black and white and also worked as an assistant to the curator at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site where he catalogued thousands of historic photographs. From there he was hired as a ranger with the National Park Service on Fire Island. It was during the years he spent living on the beach that he began to take color photographs. In 1987 he moved to East Hampton on eastern Long Island to concentrate on color photography full-time.

Todaro's critically acclaimed work has won numerous awards, including five first place awards from The Art League of Long Island.  He has also won recent first place awards from The New Jersey Center For The Visual Arts, the Montauk Artist's Association and the Westhampton Beach Outdoor Art Show. His work has been exhibited extensively and hangs in many corporate and private collections. His published works are available world-wide.

His work has been published in The New Yorker, Men's Journal, Town And Country, Decor, Metropolitan Home, Crain's New York Business, Elle Canada and other magazines. In addition,  articles about John Todaro have appeared in The East Hampton Star, The Southampton Press, Newsday, Shutterbug and Blue Sand. He was selected as a VIP artist in 2007 by Long Island Pulse. There was a 2008 article on John's work in Hamptons Online and John has also recently appeared on Plum TV. In 2009 his work was selected to decorate the newly opened Wellness Center at Southampton Hospital. 

In 2010 John opened his blog Imagecurrent as a venue to discuss and show current work: http://johntodaro.wordpress.com/

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know”.  - Diane Arbus