David Aimone

As a musician and coming from a musical and creative family, David looks to make artistic images through photography. He loves to work with natural light, to find the beauty in subjects from people to landscapes. The use of old lenses, various types of film, and exploring image production through techniques from digital manipulation through digital negatives to handcrafted prints are all part of his repertoire.

As far as beauty is concerned, it can be found in the subject itself, the lighting which renders the subject, the textures of the images, or the patterns that make up the image. One of David's main goals is to portray a subject or a theme in a way that is not common or expected, through those aspects of beauty listed above. The blending of old and new, as well as traditional photography and other art forms, is something he is also very interested in. This began with shooting and developing film, continued with large format and the use of old, sometimes "imperfect" lenses (by modern standards). David is attracted to soft focus images and pictorialism. Pinhole and zoneplate cameras continued taking him in this direction, and now using alternative methods of printing on handcoated paper is another recent way for me to create images that are handmade, unique, and expressive.

David lives with his wife Ellen in Saratoga Springs, NY, photographing subjects in the area and in other locations during their travels. His works have shown in Saratoga, Albany, Glens Falls, Troy, New York City (multiple venues), Portland Oregon, Santa Fe, London (multiple venues), Rome, Rockland and Monhegan Maine and other locations.

He prints with the following methods and sell between $50-$6,500:
Platinum-Palladium
Toned Kallitypes
Silver Gelatin
Lith
Bromoil
Gumoil
Gum Bichromate
Cyanotype
Albumen
Argyrotype
Salted prints