Mantinieri

Fine Art Photography

 

 

I am a fine art, black and white photographer. I live and perform my art in the Southern area of Italy called Cilento. I have learned to master the Photographic Arts in the early 80's as a young assistant of a commercial photographer. During those years, I became familiar with the most sophisticated techniques related to the acquisition and the development of the photographic image on silver based films and papers. I, also, started to get involved into the Photographic Arts in its purest form. From there on, it has been a profound love with fine art Photography and with the process of transferring the image from film on paper. I have set-up a darkroom where I developed and printed my art, while also experimenting and mastering my own techniques. One of my primary goals, besides giving forms to my visions, has been the achievement of the highest quality of the prints. The only medium I used for was fiber based silver halide paper. The prints were produced in my darkroom, where I personally processed the exposed films and made the prints on fiber based silver gelatin paper.

Presently, I work as an independent art photographer. My artwork is printed almost exclusively in limited editions as Carbon-Gelatine prints (described in http://www.mantinieri.com/techniques.html) and is sold to private collectors directly or trough small dealers.

E-mail: info@mantinieri.com

Official Web site: http://www.mantinieri.com/index.html