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Editorial, Fashion, & Portrait Photography of Women

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Available for assignments, photographer Frank Petronio specializes in black-and-white, film-based portraiture.

Hire Frank to make editorial and advertising photographs, as well as exhibit, consult, lecture, and teach.

See My Portfolio

Your website gave me pause. It’s candid, refreshing, a bit crass & ballsy....

PDF Portfolio

Download my 160-page portfolio, in the Adobe PDF format (9.9 mb) (get the free Adobe Acrobat Reader).

iPhone/Cell Phone Website

See hundreds of photos on your cell.

Blurb Book

160 pages, 151 images, "as nice as a Blurb book could ever be."

RSS Syndication

Add my site to your news reader.

Stock Photography

Most of my work is model released and available for rights-managed purchases at competitive rates.

Travel

I travel fast and light. LAX next.

Morning Affirmations

You produce photography orgasms. every picture is just like eye lust candy. aha!

OK, I have just spent, I don’t know — maybe an hour of time I really don’t have reading your website. I just thought, hey, this is interesting, and funny, and honest and human — and then I was in the archive reading everything — and having a fantastic little time... and then it was 11:00....

Hey man, just took a little trip through your site and I detected an evil sense of humor, something that is revealed in your work.

I ended up looking at your new work and I gotta say man, you made a leap in a good direction. There’s a lot I like about what your doing in 4x5, but it’s late and I’ll heap praise another day. Up until today I thought you were an OK pro photographer and now my opinion has changed for the better.... Superlatives to other photographers don’t exactly roll off of my tongue when even I’m rested, truth be told ;-)

I really enjoy how you tell stories with your camera. I love how you incorporate irony and the fact that you still shoot film. Beautiful work.

I’ll keep it simple. I love what you do and the way in which you do it. You make me have hope for the future of art because what you do obviously comes not from greed or lust or anything negative, but from your heart. At least that’s the way it seems.

Looking at your photos and listening to Brian Eno's “Baby’s on Fire” is probably the best....

I came across your site by chance and have been absolutely enchanted by your large format photographies, absolutely impressive and very original, by the way gaining very well the confidence of very pretty and exotic girls from whom you draw all of their photographic potential, because in my opinion you choose very well the most suitable girls for your type of photographs.

The world definitely sucks, but some of the young women you’ve photographed help make it more bearable.

It strikes me that he really lets the narcissism of his subjects show... it’s kind of fun and campy.

Three hours with Frank passes like 20 minutes with some other guy.

Critic Shirley Dawson of Rochester’s City Newspaper

And they are boring compared to Frank Petronio’s “Cristina, 2006,” the show’s stand-out work. more

Fleshbot

Fine art and editorial portrait photographer Frank Petronio does many things very well, including taking some of the most tender, intimate, playful, and sexy shots of amateur and professional models we’ve seen in a while. more (NSFW)

The Koreans Have Good Taste

And I’ll take it: An article about my work in Korea’s Monthly Photo magazine.

The Artery Magazine

Frank Petronio couldn’t be anything other than a photographer, and he has tried — role of husband, father, teacher, web designer. Almost as if he can’t escape the lure of an irreverent beauty. He’s abrupt, with a dark sense of humor and raw honesty that develops in uninhibited photographs. more

Thanks. I get all warm and tingling after reading these each and every morning. It gets me so pumped up that I go for a run up the Courthouse steps and punch frozen sides of beef.

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Send Some Love

• f@frankpetronio.com
• AIM fspetronio
• cellular/text (585) 259-0189

Print Sale

Someday, if I am lucky, a good gallery will pick me up and sell dozens of my images for thousands of dollars apiece. Until that time, you can purchase almost any image on this site as a fine-art display print for only $75 plus shipping ($9 domestic or $27 international). Please pardon the following geeky description of my process — rest assured these are good looking black-and-white and color gallery-quality prints. They are most often 11x14- or 9x13.5-inch images printed from a Harrington RIP on to 13x19 Harman FB Gloss inkjet paper. Their color is a warm neutral without any metamerism but with a slight bronzing when the print is viewed from an low oblique angle. I use an older 7-color Epson 2200 printer but I figure it is fine for greyscale prints compared to the newer printers with more heads (which produce finer color prints). Of course I can make smaller prints but I won’t charge any less as the material costs are minimal and the cost of the print is really based on the content itself. I sign the verso in pencil and ship prints between two sheets of sturdy foamcore. At these prices you should buy several... PayPal is the easiest way to pay me but USPS Money Orders work too.

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