Photographer Angelo Abate’s career spans over forty years as a fashion photographer in New York City. His work has been published in major fashion magazines; Bazaar, Vogue and Glamour, to name a few. Angelo taught photography at the Center for Media Graphics and Germain School of Photography and was guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Over the years, Angelo has had the opportunity to photograph many of the top models in the industry, which resulted in thousands of 35mm slides. A sudden illness in 1988 ended his career as a fashion photographer, but he decided to explore and expand upon his prior works by using portions of the photographs, adding various textures, filters and other elements, manipulating and enhancing the image, thus creating an entirely new and exciting form. This form, greatly enlarged, is then printed on Kodak Type C paper.

Body Parts, the theme and name for this body of work is the result of this process. Two works from this series were recently on exhibit at the Art of Women, a group multimedia show at the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts.

Angelo lives in New York City but often works in his studio at his second home in Sherman, Connecticut, where he finds the serenity that is so necessary for his work.



angelo@abate-curry.com