Wed 9/29 @ 5:30PM
Photographer Roger Mastroianni is best know for his work for performing groups, especially the Cleveland Orchestra, where he’s the official photographer. But during the pandemic when stages were dark, he decided to focus on something else: a city fallen silent because of the pandemic.
Roger Mastroianni’s Long View of Cleveland: Recent Poetic Images by a Master Photographer featuring dramatic black-and-white long-exposure images, is now showing at the Foothill Galleries in Cleveland Heights.
“When the pandemic shut down the city every shoot I had on my schedule was cancelled,” says Mastroianni. “The entertainment industry was hit especially hard and it would be 400 days before one of my favorite clients, the Cleveland Orchestra, would perform in front of a live audience. With this free time, I began to document the empty city using my Phase One XT technical camera which makes 200-700 individual exposures over a 2-7 minute period and averages them together into a single raw image.”
If you’d like to see the work AND meet the photographer, he’ll be doing artist talks on Wednesday September 29 and Sunday October 17. The show will be on view through Sunday October 31.