Jeff Curto

Jeffrey Curto

Career

Photographer Jeffrey 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.

He 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 http://www.jeffcurto.com/

Awards

He was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2007 Patron Saint of Photography/Teacher of the Year Award by Center in Santa Fe, NM

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