Marco in Tuscany
Marco A. photographed by Ron Amato.
Ron Amato has been making photographs since his childhood in Brooklyn, NY. His early influences were fashion and portrait photographers of the Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Francesco Scavullo. Most of Ron's adult work centers around the male figure. In the 1990s and early 2000s Ron photographed for fitness and sports magazines including Men's Health, Men's Fitness and Sports Illustrated.
In 2004 Ron began teaching and is currently an Associate Professor and the Chairperson of the Photography department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC. He has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally and have been published in a number of anthologies. In June of 2014 a selection from his Armor series was exhibited in Berlin, Germany. Ron has a BFA from School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Long Island University.
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