“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’ in the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson. In this way, I try to capture what I see.” 

Ever since my dad invited my eleven year-old self a look through the camera’s viewfinder, I developed a love for photographic images. Initially, this was a black and white world of lines and shapes and shades of light; silver compounds and chemical solutions to release them. Now, for me, photography has become a vast catalogue of both color and monochrome digital images and software capable of allowing me to better present these images as I “see” them.

As a self-taught photographer inspired by his Dad’s interest, Carmine has built a photographic life on various artistic and technical training opportunities dating back to Massachusetts College of Art, now MassArt (Boston, Mass.) darkroom experience in the 1960s, and Maine Photographic Workshops, now Maine Media (Rockport, Maine) in the 1970s. The latter, in fact, laid the groundwork for his first show, a black and white print exhibit, at the Brickmill Gallery in Ware, Massachusetts.

From there he has exhibited in juried shows in Western Massachusetts, here in Eastern Connecticut and, most recently, the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He has been an exhibitor at the Paradise City Arts Festivals in Northampton and Marlborough, Massachusetts since 2015, and is a member of the New Hampshire Art Association and the Art Guild Northeast.

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