PAIGE DE PONTE

PAIGE DE PONTE
Paige De Ponte's career spans twenty years and around the globe
as a visual artist. An award-winning photographer, publisher,
writer, producer and filmmaker. It all began shooting high
fashion in 1990 in Europe for Versace who gave her the first big
break from there to High Fashion editorials...
At 29, a single mother of two, she packed herself and family off to
Italy to pursue her dream of photography. She worked in Paris at Elle
Studios alongside such greats as Jean Louis Sieff and Patrick
Demarchelier who mentored and inspired her to shoot in black-and-white.
In 1996, Paige moved to New York and was published in over 200 fashion
editorials and campaigns.
She founded GAIA (GLOBAL ART IN ACTION), in the hope of inspiring
awareness and change on critical world issues and in 2000, her first
project was released. ‘Journey Into Vanishing Worlds’ is a fine art
photography book consisting of 244 toned images shot in eight biodiverse areas in danger of irreversible destruction.
GAIA donated the proceeds from the book to Conservation International’s
‘Campaign To Save The Hotspots’. A second book, ‘Song of the Vanishing
Tribe’ won a publishing award from the Publisher Marketing Association
and was nominated for the prestigious Nautilus Award.
Paige donated books and proceeds from this work to the areas and tribes
photographed. Today, Paige continues her conservation work on her own
ranch Triple L Ranch in Maui, Hawaii with " The Kanai'o Native Hawaiian
Reforestation Project ".
Paige also continues to donate works to raise funds and awareness for
ARC African Rainforest Conservancy. And ACE for the Homeless in NYC.
Currently Paige's Editions hang in the worlds largest and most valuable
art collections:
“Phillip Niarchos Collection” - One of her elephant prints hangs in the
Greek shipping magnet's family home in NYC
The Buhl Collection - Board of MOMA
Brent Nicklas Collection
(Brent Nicklas member of multiple museum boards in New York)
Boston University Library Collection
Paige also wrote, directed and produced two documentaries in Africa
including the Award-Winning ‘Xai Xai, Voice of Our Ancestors’.
An accomplished Director - Writer in theatrical feature film arena, her
current film K2TK (Keys to the Kingdom) promises to propel her
audiences with her unique visual prose this gritty raw true story of a
professional water man will reach into your soul and bring you out the
other side of the crashing wave.
Quote from Paige, “I have always felt that my talent and experiences
have a higher purpose, film offers the maximum medium and exposure.
I want people to be riveted in the theater, have an overall experience,
visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. I want them to walk out
feeling they got more then they expected.”
“…One of the most exciting new visual artists of the twenty-first
century”. Michael Eric Stein, Columnist for the Los Angeles Times and
Films in Review.
2013 Jan 9-­27 2013 Topanga Canyon Juried Group Show -­ LA CA 2012 Dec 19-­Jan 6th 2013 Topanga Canyon Pop-­up Group Show – LA, CA. 2012 July 18 “Solo Exhibit Benefit SALOMON ARTS GALLERY, Tribeca NYC “
WEBSITE: www.paigedeponte.com Contact : PAIGE DEPONTE 808-­280-­7070 E: paigedeponte@yahoo.com Galleries Salomon Arts Gallery
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