Montalbetti and campbell photography boston

Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell have been working as an artistic partnership for decades. In that time they have developed a unique approach to image making that has garnered them an international reputation for excellence. Award-winning masters of the studio and of post-production, they harness the full potential of digital technology to create images with a nonetheless timeless quality.

With a practice that spans commercial, editorial and fine art, they remind us that many of the artists of the past created their greatest works to commission and for a purpose. They are truly visual artists. These visual fragments arrive from the ether unannounced — in a contemporary take on the classical notion of the muse, they describe these moments of inspiration as being delivered by the 'Cosmic FedEx'.

The images are developed through the symbiotic disciplines of the studio costume, hair, make-up, setting, lighting and post-production, where new layers of imagery are fused to the original photograph and the real and the imagined synthesis a new possibility. Ideas emerge from the purely visual, evolve through the act of making and find meaning in their dialogue with the viewer.

Creator: Montalbetti+Campbell · Date Created: (printed ) · Provenance: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Purchased

These are images that remain open for those that come to gaze upon them. They seduce but do not instruct. Once drawn into their imaginary realm the viewer is free to spin their own story; to follow their own path.