Vincent Frazzetta
21 Beaver Dam Rd.
Bristol ME 04539
vincentfrazzettaphotography.com                                   
vfrazz@tidewater.net

Though late to photography, it has become a joy and passion for me, and as a full time care giver, it is truly a respite.  Choices in photography abound, and I have journeyed through cameras and themes, and from color to black and white.  I am now firmly settled on the challenges of black and white film photography, including once-a-month darkroom sessions in our Bristol bathroom.

With no formal art education (but with years of wandering through art galleries and museums), I am a constant reader and photographer, most influenced by the NYC work of Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans' Farm Security Agency projects, David Plowden's splendid contemporary photographs of rural and working America, and lately by William Eggleston's "beauty in the ordinary".

My primary effort is to record local scenes, architecture and details, work and waterfront...attempting a creative interpretation in strong, high contrast compositions with ironic or complex features.  A second key subject is my wife, Barbara, as I softly record her struggle to live with Alzheimer's.

In addition to juried and solo shows and exhibits over the past five or six years, I was awarded the Ike Royer Memorial Scholarship for Traditional Black and White Photography for 2009.