Paul d'Amato

Paul d'Amato was born in 1956, graduated from the Yale School of Arts. Lives with his wife, an Anne Harris painter, and their son in Chicago and works as a professor at College of Columbia. The works of D'Amato are in constant collections of several museums, including the capital's museum of art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Modern photography at Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Portland Museum of Art in Mena, and the reader review collection. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts Partnership, the Maine Grant, Grant of the Council for Culture and Art of Illinois, etc.

The photographer does not try to objectively and from all sides to document the people surrounding him. Instead, he seeks to express a simple drama of everyday life, enclosed in the urban environment.

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