Apr 22 2006
About Jeff Curto
Photographer Jeff Curto is Professor and Coordinator of the Photography Program at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he has taught since 1984. Courses frequently taught include History of Photography (which has its own podcast), Tools & Techniques for Digital Photography, Advanced Digital Imaging and Extended Photographic Projects. His teaching efforts earned him an Honorable Mention in the Santa Fe Center for Photography’s annual Teacher of the Year - Patron Saint of Photography award for 2007.
Prior to employment at College of DuPage, Jeff worked extensively as a freelance photographer, specializing in event and public relations photography, architectural interiors and exteriors, portrait and product photography. Further, Jeff spent time in the photo-processing industry, working primarily as a custom photographic printer in both B&W and color.
Illinois Wesleyan University awarded Jeff a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1981 and a he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Bennington College in Vermont in 1983. Additionally, he attended Ansel Adams’ last workshop in Carmel, California in the summer of 1983.
Jeff has photographed extensively in Italy since 1989. He’s fascinated with the evidence of the hands of those men and women who have, for centuries, shaped the visual splendor of Italian structures and landscapes. Those hands have established a casual coexistence with antiquity; a subtle layering of the ancient and the everyday, informed by the famed Italian sense of proportion, beauty and attention to minute details of life and living. His photographs are responses to the way that the Italian landscape and the structures it contains represent layers of time and time’s passage.
By eliminating people in the photographs of structures, Jeff creates a sense of timelessness in the images; the hands that made them could be from any age. His use of the large format view camera, which produces a negative 4×5″ in size, combined with the choice of black & white materials gives Curto great control over the photographic process, allowing him to make prints of subtle detail and tone.
Jeff exhibits his work regularly in both group and one-person shows. His glowing black and white and color prints are contained in numerous private and corporate collections.
Examples of Jeff Curto’s work can be found on his website at www.jeffcurto.com
Email Jeff at: jeff@cameraposition.com
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Jeff
Your Camera Position and History of Photography podcasts are keeping me sane as I look after my elderly Mum and slowly save for my first DSLR. Thank you.
David Rogers
Brisbane, Australia
PS. I listen to your podcasts late at night when everyone else is in bed—my flatmate says you have a very nice voice to go to sleep to…
David;
Glad I’m helping your sanity! I sometimes feel a bit insane when I’m sitting talking to my self and making these things, so it probably all evens out.
At least a few of my students would probably agree to the “he has a nice voice to go to sleep to”….
-Jeff
Jeff,
I’ve just discovered your highly interesting podcasts via iTunes. After downloading about 5 randomly I have found the contents and discussion points of immense interest. I have now subscribed but will use the holiday season to catch on on the back catalogue….
Keep up the great work
Kevin Goodchild ( UK based enthusiast )
Thanks, Kevin…
I appreciate your interest and support!
I’m hoping to use the holiday season to record new content, so once you catch up, there will be new episodes!
-Jeff
I just found you at iTunes and now your web site. At iTunes your first 8 issues of Camera Position are not listed but I see that your web site goes all the way back, with support information.
I like to start at the beginning, guess I am weird or something, but I find that it is going to take a lot of clicks on the next button at the bottom of each page to get back to issue #1 where I would like to start.
So, is there any way that you can put an Archive list on your website so that I can choose which cast I would like to listen to, rather than having to click all the way through each time I visit your site?
Thanks in advance
JH, Ontario Canada
Hi, John;
Thanks for your comment and for your support!
An archive is a great suggestion; you’ll now find one in the “sidebar” of every page. I didn’t want the iTunes list to get too darn big, so I limited the number you see on the iTunes store.
I’ve had a terrible time of late with my WordPress blog theme (the thing that provides the “look and feel” of the site) reverting back to a “default” look, which totally messes up the “sidebar” on the left side of the page. So, the theme might get messed up again and remove the Archive list that I’ve now added, but… that’s life with technology, right?
Thanks again… keep listening and keep shooting!
-Jeff
Thanks, you are doing a great job!!!!!
a hug from DOminican Republic… you have a fan club here!!
Ciao Jeff,
Thanks for this and your History of Photography podcasts. Your podcasts have been instrumental in reigniting my interest in photography.
Keep up the great work… please!
Thanks, Elio!
I appreciate your support!
Glad to hear you’re listening to the History of Photography podcasts, too!
-Jeff