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HOME PAGE:
www.JasonACina.com
WORK BY MY STUDENTS:
www.flickr.com/photos/ahrcnyc
BIO:
I grew up in New York City on Roosevelt Island and currently reside in Woodside, Queens, NYC. I studied the visual and performing arts vigorously throughout my childhood and went on to major in theatrical scenic and lighting design. Shortly before dropping out of graduate school I had returned to photography something serious and abruptly altered my path by spending the subsequent decade mastering my use of the 35mm camera.
I hocked my trade and talent as a means of nominal financial sustenance by designing lighting and painting scenery throughout the bowels of Off-Off Broadway, Off-Broadway, some TV and Summer Stock as well as national tours with stage companies and later spent six years traveling with a Jazz sextet all the while taking advantage of those opportunities to refine my photographic POV.
For the past five years I have been working primarily as a teaching artist (painting, sculpting, photography and stage design) in middle and high schools and since 2008 have been working extensively with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities [ their works in a variety of media is itself most worthy of mainstream exposure ] while continuing to freelance as a scenic painter and photographer in theaters and Jazz clubs in venues across the city.
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Testimonials (1)
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Julius Bernhardt says:
"Hi, Jason. Thanks for discover my work on flickr, it allowed me to have the privilege to get in contact with yours, that I appreciate as very intense, magic. When I was teenager I tryied to do exactly what You did, in the outskirts of my town, Milan, in the north of Italy, and maybe, the inconsistence of my photos at the time, gave me later the platform to try to rebuild that intensity on the stage. I'm not only speaking about the saturation of the forms, but mainly about the signs of the all lives that went away in that forgotten working places, almost without leaving traces to us. Bravo, many thanks again for sharing the experience. Giulio Bernardi, Zurich - Switzerland"
16th February, 2009
- Name:
- Jason A. Cina
- Joined:
- July 2007
- Hometown:
- N.Y.C.
- Currently:
- N.Y.C., USA
- I am:
- Male and Taken
- Occupation:
- Photographer / Painter / Teacher
- Website:
- JasonACina.com
- Email:
- jc [at] jasonacina.com