fotofoto gallery

Aronda Xystris Richard Gardner
2020-05-09 - 2020-06-02
Artist Statement:Before COVID-19, SARS, and the Spanish Flu, the leading cause of death in many U.S. cities was tuberculosis. Reaching epidemic proportions in the early 20th Century, the need to treat tuberculosis coincided with public health awareness of tuberculosis as a communicable disease that required both improvements in housing and adequate isolation of the sick. This ultimately led to the founding of private and state-operated hospitals known as sanatoriums. Typically located in rural settings, mountains, or seaside locations, sanatoriums provided comfort and isolation where patients could breathe fresh air, rest, and have controlled access to sunlight – the very features that supposedly contributed to the cure for tuberculosis. Architectural innovations in sanatoriums such as fresh air porches, gardens creating a homelike setting, and majestic grounds for respiratory and cardiovascular stimulation, are still in use in America’s hospital designs today. But the reliance on them would end after WWII when microbiologist Selman Waksman discovered the antibiotic streptomycin. While most sanatoriums have been demolished or repurposed into modern facilities, the historical significance of the existing structures still show as symbols of progressive ideas and civic responsibility that were constructed by the like minds of physicians, philanthropists, and government officials. Bio:John Lazzaro is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Long Island, NY. Fascinated by history and storytelling, his documentaries address topics of social awareness. Hindsight (2010), offered a painful look at Long Island’s heroin epidemic. His first photo book, The Walls Still Talk documents the decades of neglect and decay of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center in Kings Park, NY as a result of deinstitutionalization. In his approach to photography, Lazzaro draws upon his experiences from documentary filmmaking in order to create a realistic, visual, and thought-provoking dialogue of the macabre. His main focus is capturing abandoned buildings and vanishing architecture throughout the United States. Lazzaro is also a member of fotofoto gallery in Huntington, NY and The Firefly Gallery in Northport, NY.

Your Best Shot Competition
2020-02-26 - 2020-03-28, 2019-02-27 - 2019-03-23

A Vanishing New York
2020-01-29 - 2020-02-22

Your Best Shot Winners
2020-01-08 - 2020-01-25

15th Annual National Photography Exhibition
2019-11-27 - 2020-01-04

Small Works Exhibition by Gallery Artists
2019-10-30 - 2019-11-23

Fall 2019 Art Walk
2019-10-06 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)

EXPOposure2
2019-10-02 - 2019-10-26

The New Members Pop-up Exhibition
2019-09-23 - 2019-09-28

Pamela Waldroup: City Perspectives Inside and Out
2019-08-28 - 2019-09-21

5th International Phoneography Exhibition
2019-07-31 - 2019-08-24

Mirror of the soul
2019-07-03 - 2019-07-27

fotofoto EXPOsure
2019-05-29 - 2019-06-29

Salon Pop up
2019-05-20 - 2019-05-25

In Absentia
2019-04-24 - 2019-05-18

Photographer: Aronda Xystris
2019-03-27 - 2019-04-20

Photographer: Bruce Cohen
2019-01-23 - 2019-02-23

2018 "Your Best Shot" Competitions Winners
2019-01-06 - 2019-01-19

14th Annual National Competition
2018-11-28 - 2019-01-05

Retro-perspective: a photographic journey by Susan Dooley
2018-10-31 - 2018-11-24

Sympathetic Sensibilities
2018-10-03 - 2018-10-27 | fotofoto gallery, 14 West Carver Street, Huntington, NY, 11743, United States

The Breast and the Sea
2018-08-29 - 2018-09-29 | fotofoto gallery, 14 West Carver Street, Huntington, NY, 11743, United States

4th International Phone-ography Competition Exhibition
2018-08-01 - 2018-08-25

Photo-Liminalism by Holly Gordon
2018-06-27 - 2018-07-28

Paul Mele - Return to Desolation: Within the Remains Pt. 2
2018-05-30 08:00 - 2018-06-02 17:00 UTC

JOINT VENTURE A Group Exhibition of Photography
2018-05-20 08:00 - 2018-05-26 17:00 UTC

The Knox School Student Photography Exhibit
2018-04-25 - 2018-05-18

Your Best Shot
2018-04-04 - 2018-04-21

Chasing the Light, Photographs by Lynn Saville & Kristin Holcomb
2018-03-07 - 2018-03-31
