Robert Vizzini

Robert Vizzini was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952. When he was eight years old, he was exposed to the work of Edward Weston on an early edition of the Today Show. His poetic vision opened to me a magnificent world of the natural and ordinary beauty around us.

Robert had his moments of inspiration, building and designing model cars, planes, ships, and rockets. The space race was going full force in the 60’s and he was fascinated with it. Following all the flights, contacting NASA and the various aircraft companies even the Russian embassy about their space program and collecting photos and all manner of technical data about space flight. He was aching for the courage to express what was inside me, be who he really was.

Vizzini has become aware of how his earliest life experiences have shaped his visual sensibility. His childhood fears and isolation going unchecked for so long made him turn to the visual for satisfaction and comfort. That is why he feels he has been internalizing images his whole life. Seeing the beauty in the soft curves and the jagged edges of living. Through his gravitation to the solitude of the night and inspiration of the land, sea and sky, his search for the peace and spiritual connection with others that he has been hungering for his whole life. In a sense he looks to his art to be grounding, consoling.

Being out in the expanse of nature gives Vizzini the sense of freedom that he has been looking for since childhood, release from his inner demons and a trust in the eternal. Robert sees this now as much of the driving force for the way he does his photography and attraction for much on the subject matter he chooses.

Robert Vizzini
Photographer