PAIGE DE PONTE
Fine art and PHOTOGRAPHY
Fine art and PHOTOGRAPHY
Welcome to Paige DePOnte' art and photography
Paige De Ponte's career spans twenty years and around the globe as a visual artist.
An award winning photographer, publisher, writer, producer and filmmaker.
It all began shooting high fashion 1990 in Europe for Versace who gave her the first big break from there to High Fashion editorials...
At 29, a single mother of two, she packed herself and family off to Italy to pursue her dream of photography. She worked in Paris at Elle Studios alongside such greats as Jean Louis Sieff and Patrick Demarchelier who mentored and inspired her to shoot in black-and-white.
In 1996, Paige moved to New York and was published in over 200 fashion editorials and campaigns.
She founded GAIA (GLOBAL ART IN ACTION), in the hope of inspiring awareness and change on critical world issues and in 2000, her first project was released. ‘Journey Into Vanishing Worlds’ is a fine art photography book consisting of 244 toned images shot in eight bio-diverse areas in danger of irreversible destruction.
GAIA donated the proceeds from the book to Conservation International’s ‘Campaign To Save The Hotspots’.
A second book, ‘Song of the Vanishing Tribe’ won a publishing award from the Publisher Marketing Association and was nominated for the prestigious Nautilus Award.
Paige donated books and proceeds from this work to the areas and tribes photographed. Today, Paige continues her charity work and sits on the board of FM World Charities.
Currently Paige's Editions hang in the worlds largest and most valuable art collections:
The Niarchos Collection -one of her elephant prints hangs in the Greek shipping magnet's family home in NYC
The Buhl Collection
Nicklas Collection
(Henry Buhl and Brent Nicklas are both members of museum boards in New York)
Boston University Library Collection.
Paige also wrote, directed and produced two documentaries in Africa including the Award-Winning ‘Xai Xai, Voice of Our Ancestors’.
An accomplished Director - Writer in theatrical feature film arena, her current film goes into production late spring 2012, be released in 2013.
Quote from Paige “I have always felt that my talent and experiences have a higher purpose, film offers the maximum medium and exposure. I want people to be riveted in the theatre, have an overall experience, visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. I want them to walk out feeling they got more then they expected.”
“…one of the most exciting new visual artists of the twenty-first century”. Michael Eric Stein, Columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Films in Review.
Paige fine art and prints are currently represented by: Asymmetrikinc Inc: http://asymmetrikinc.com/photos/?f=Paige_de_Ponte
and ...
THE WORKS
http://www.theworks-gallery.com/works/artist/paige_de_ponte
and ...
An award winning photographer, publisher, writer, producer and filmmaker.
It all began shooting high fashion 1990 in Europe for Versace who gave her the first big break from there to High Fashion editorials...
At 29, a single mother of two, she packed herself and family off to Italy to pursue her dream of photography. She worked in Paris at Elle Studios alongside such greats as Jean Louis Sieff and Patrick Demarchelier who mentored and inspired her to shoot in black-and-white.
In 1996, Paige moved to New York and was published in over 200 fashion editorials and campaigns.
She founded GAIA (GLOBAL ART IN ACTION), in the hope of inspiring awareness and change on critical world issues and in 2000, her first project was released. ‘Journey Into Vanishing Worlds’ is a fine art photography book consisting of 244 toned images shot in eight bio-diverse areas in danger of irreversible destruction.
GAIA donated the proceeds from the book to Conservation International’s ‘Campaign To Save The Hotspots’.
A second book, ‘Song of the Vanishing Tribe’ won a publishing award from the Publisher Marketing Association and was nominated for the prestigious Nautilus Award.
Paige donated books and proceeds from this work to the areas and tribes photographed. Today, Paige continues her charity work and sits on the board of FM World Charities.
Currently Paige's Editions hang in the worlds largest and most valuable art collections:
The Niarchos Collection -one of her elephant prints hangs in the Greek shipping magnet's family home in NYC
The Buhl Collection
Nicklas Collection
(Henry Buhl and Brent Nicklas are both members of museum boards in New York)
Boston University Library Collection.
Paige also wrote, directed and produced two documentaries in Africa including the Award-Winning ‘Xai Xai, Voice of Our Ancestors’.
An accomplished Director - Writer in theatrical feature film arena, her current film goes into production late spring 2012, be released in 2013.
Quote from Paige “I have always felt that my talent and experiences have a higher purpose, film offers the maximum medium and exposure. I want people to be riveted in the theatre, have an overall experience, visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. I want them to walk out feeling they got more then they expected.”
“…one of the most exciting new visual artists of the twenty-first century”. Michael Eric Stein, Columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Films in Review.
Paige fine art and prints are currently represented by: Asymmetrikinc Inc: http://asymmetrikinc.com/photos/?f=Paige_de_Ponte
and ...
THE WORKS
http://www.theworks-gallery.com/works/artist/paige_de_ponte
and ...
New Works in progress ..THE LAST FRONTIERA New Paige De Ponte book depicting KANAIO a little know regeion of Maui where her organic cattle and horseback riding ranch is located .. check back for more ....
