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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 |