Frank Morgillo

stands among the greats. Frank is slim figure, contained sized, almost fragile, like the perfect moment that would break into banality if shot the moment after, or before. His sensitivity impacts on reality the same way the developer  chemical does to photographic paper, his humour fixes the image to the scene and confers unicity. His work focuses on particular areas of the world, southern Italy, Milan, Usa, rural USA Cappadocia, on primitive gestures of forgotten people and their interaction with places, tradition and nature. His perspective as much as his technique is innocent: he sees the scene before it happens and decides to make it immortal. He takes care of the image throughout the whole production chain from its conception in the viewfinder to the final print in the darkroom. He lives half secluded in his atelier in a small village in southern Italy in company of his 9 cats. Once he found himself in the course of a robbery. The criminal went up to him, pointed the gun to his eyes and demanded his camera. Frank replied with his calm, seraphic voice: you’ll have to shoot brother. Frank is a rare kind soul. 

J.B. Chalomot is a film photographer who mainly shoots on Leica m3