Life has afforded me unique experiences and opportunities. From childhood in post-war Italy, where I was born in 1944, to San Francisco college-student in the vibrant 1960s, by way of adolescence in Caracas, Venezuela, my life in Southern California, as a photographer and family man completes the picture.
Marco Ruggiero's extensive collection is comprised of a variety of images of locales, men, women and children, and the span of photographs on locations in the States from Beverly Hills, San Francisco, and Chicago to New York City., Rather than trying to capture them in portraitures or controlled environments, which tend to result in more staged and less revealing of their personality and being fortunate to be able to make people very confortable with me, I have been able to capture them in spontaneous moments, reflected on a multitude of surfaces, and in a play of light and shadows. Lastly, the human presence is palpable even when the images are void of their physical being.
