Jo Ann Santangelo photographer

Bio

Austin-based documentary, editorial and portrait photographer.

My obsession with documenting life began when I was a child, growing up in Boston’s "Little Italy, the North End” where everyone knew everyone else and everyone’s business. It hung flapping between buildings on clotheslines. Whether they liked it or not, they were connected, a community.

After relocating to Austin, Texas in August of 2006, feeling community-less and disconnected. I hopped on my bike and started photographing my new surroundings and the people that I passed by. To support me and my film habit I worked weekends as a pedicab driver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhAYXIvhPtw

I moved to New York City in August, 2008 to attend my first formal education program at the International Center of Photography (www.icp.org), where I was awarded The New York Times Foundation Scholarship and interned with Eugene Richards.

This past December, I relocated back to Austin.

- Available for assignments and commissions.

Exhibitions

CURRENT/UPCOMING
December-January 2012 "Austin Faces AIDS" - Falcon 5- 1000 E. 5th Street, Austin, TX
Exhibit CLOSES on JANUARY 2nd

November - Dec 2011 "A Fine Line: Private Lives for Public View"- Clifford Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

PAST

June 2011-August 2011 “Proud to Serve” – The Q Center, Portland, OR

June-July 2011 “Walking the Block” – B.Hollyman Gallery, Austin, TX

November 2010-January 2011 “Proud to Serve” – The LGBT Center, Manhattan, NY

June-July 2010 "Gallery I/D presents Rise: New Work by New Artists"- Miami, FL

June-September 2010 “Walking the Block” – The LGBT Center, Manhattan, NY

July-August 2009 “Pluperfect” - International Center of Photography Manhattan, NY

June/July 2008 ”Arms of Progress Analog I Dialogue” - Progress Coffee - Austin, TX

May/June 2008 ”Austin Seen” - Pro-Jex Gallery - Austin, TX

self portrait

Testing for Austin Faces AIDS: 08/26/11