Zafarana, Santino: - Santino was born in Polizzi Generosa, Sicily, Italy in 1954. He was introduced to photography by his uncle Salvatore Dolce, who gave him his first camera -- a Kodak brownie. Later he received a Rolleiflex for his 15th birthday. For more than forty-five years Santino Zafarana has simply photographed "the magic of light." He realized early in his photographic career that understanding how to control and capture the essence of light with his camera can make amazing photographs when it illuminates an object or a person. His artistic aspirations sent him on a quest to understand the quintessence and authenticity that led to a workflow and language that has allowed him to help thousands achieve their dreams of taking great artistic photographs. Santino's work moves smoothly and with great subtlety between abstraction and surrealism, constructivism and humanism.

Santino currently teaches and mentors at the Creative Photography Workshops school in Los Angeles, where he has taught at for more than eighteen years, and which he owns with his wife Tracey Landworth--an accomplished photographer in her own right.