Gerry D’Onofrio discovered 35mm film photography in the early seventies and saw it as an extension of his black and white pencil drawing, having fun with the dodging and burning or “painting” with light in the darkroom.
Mr. D’Onofrio is an award-winning photographer who exhibits regularly in Northern Virginia. His fine art images are part of corporate and private collections.
“My photography comes from striking a balance between being one with the place before I capture it and recognizing a decisive moment and embracing it.”
Gerry has a vast collection of nature and domestic and international travel photographs in film negatives and slides. After transitioning from film to digital, he is now enjoying the creative as well as the technical aspects of the digital “darkroom” to produce his photographic work.
A solo exhibit emerged as he scanned negatives and slides captured while living in Seoul in the 1990s called "South Korea Through the Lens of a Miguk" (American). He has also compiled the images in this collection and more in a book with the same title.