patrizia menton profile
Italian- born Patrizia Menton grew up in Italy and Germany before moving to Canada in her twenties. Her keen interest in the visual arts led her to study photography and printmaking in Vancouver, B.C. in the eighties, allowing her to seriously pursue her own photographic vision.
She values traditional darkroom skills, and her work in fine art photography includes black & white and colour, with particular focus on Cibachrome printing.
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Patrizia's work has been extensively exhibited both in Italy and Canada for the last 13 years. She has co-produced 2 photographic books: "John's Garden", and " Recipes & Rapscallions", and her images have been shown in numerous architectural magazines such as: Wood Le Bois, and Canadian Architect.
Patrizia Menton's home-based studio, Chiaroscuro Photographic Gallery, is located in Hills B.C. on Slocan lake, where her current work is always on display.
Mainly she shoots in medium format, and two of her favorite subject matters are architecture and the natural world.
Some thoughts on these subjects.
Architecture: I am fascinated with the Italian landscape, and its architecture- not so much the grandness of monuments, as rather the beauty of more intimate architectural details, and the way these testaments of the past reach into present- day life.
Frequent travel to Italy has allowed her to produce an extensive archive of images.Nature: Nature lets me view the mysterious and ethereal with a meditative eye. The richness of form in Nature in its kaleidoscopic variations, always fusing function and beauty into one, leaves me forever in awe.
My photographs reflect the way I see and feel.