Bio
Steve Giovinco is a New York-based photographer. Tracing environmental change, his work focuses on evocative long exposure night landscapes images. Public and private collections including his photographs are the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the California Museum of Photography. Exhibitions of his work include the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag; Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Winnipeg Art Gallery; White Columns, New York; Sadler’s Wells, London; Gyeongnam Art Museum, Korea. He’s a Fulbright Fellow Alternate, attendened artist residencies at Yaddo and received numerous grants. He was commissioned by one of the first blockchain art platforms, Monegraph. Giovinco earned an MFA from Yale University.
Statement
My night photographs at the edge of inhabited places trace evidence of epic but subtle change. Informed by the environment, history, and culture, my most recent work documents the extremely remote arctic Greenland with the goal of visualizing transformation since climate-related statistics can be difficult to grasp. I aim to capture the immensity of the space and photograph a feeling of loss and evidence of change in the landscape while making a visual representation of an unfolding emotional experience.
Working in darkness requires exposures ranging from several minutes to an hour or more, making it impossible to see through the camera’s viewfinder. Instead, I stand beside it “feeling” the image and intuitively framing it in the dark. This process can be meditative, revelatory, and sometimes terrifying in the primordial beauty.
Artistic inspiration is from the paintings of Frederick Church and Hudson River School; the photographs of Eugène Atget, Brassai; the films of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, Scandinavian and German cinema, movies my father would bring home as a child; Roman ruins and large abandoned industrial structures.