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“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.”

Carmine Angeloni is a self-taught photographer living in northeastern Connecticut. He regards his dad as his early influence, and the iconic Argus C3 rangefinder camera as his early obsession, at a time when black and white pictures were still predominant. Carmine is primarily a landscape and cityscape photographer inspired by 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. His 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, the latter, leading to his first show, a black and white print exhibit at the Brickmill Gallery in Ware, Massachusetts. Since then, he has participated in juried shows throughout Western Massachusetts and, most recently, in Eastern Connecticut where he resides. Beginning in 2015 he has been an exhibitor at the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton and Marlborough, Massachusetts. He is a current member of the Art Guild Northeast and the New Hampshire Art Association, and has recently completed an Artist Residency at the Edwin Way Teale Trail Wood Sanctuary in Hampton, Connecticut.

Again, Cartier-Bresson said it best, “For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously.”