Chandler Michael Culotta is a fine art photographer from Southwest Florida. As an artist, his work has explored a multitude of genres. Working both in studio and within the natural environment, Chandler works to bring his visions and experiences to the viewer, pulling them into the way he sees the world around us.

Chandler has extensive experience in the world of photojournalism and commercial photography. He has worked with publications such as Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, QRO Magazine and the Florida Trident, photographing and writing on live concerts, music festivals, protests, and local news and events with over 50 published articles. He has worked closely with clients within studio and event settings, photographing global and national conferences, providing photographic material for bands and album covers, and product and advertising photography.

With his fine artwork, Chandler works extensively in vocalizing his support for our planet’s natural environments. He explores the landscape, inserting himself deep within its territories, creating photographs that allow these intricate worlds a platform to speak on their own preservation and importance.

Chandler’s current on-going project, Among Cypress and Sawgrass, explores the world of his backyard, the Florida Everglades. The Everglades region is a place he has come to call home and love, vocalizing his support for its continued and improved protection. The series is created using a one to one ratio mural that immerses the viewer into the landscape with images placed upon it. These smaller images mix together photographs of the natural and human worlds, showing how human development has disrupted and harmed this ecosystem. The series is printed on paper made from recycled materials and byproducts of green-harvested sugar cane, reflecting the sugar cane industry of South Florida that has extensively damaged the ecosystem through harmful fertilizers and burn harvesting. The project was first displayed in Rochester, New York at Rochester Institute of Technology’s William Harris Gallery.

Chandler received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Tampa and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Related Media from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Chandler currently teaches courses in photography and digital arts at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, Florida. In his courses, he implores students to examine conceptual and contemporary artwork and designs to create their own artwork that examines thematic concepts and approaches to contemporary art.

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