Artist’s Statement
Hilary Neroni lives in Burlington, VT. She has been photographing since she was a young girl, but her first serious work began in college when she became enamored with what the world looked like through a macro lens. After college, where she majored in theatre but spen...
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Hilary Neroni lives in Burlington, VT. She has been photographing since she was a young girl, but her first serious work began in college when she became enamored with what the world looked like through a macro lens. After college, where she majored in theatre but spent as many hours in the dark room as on stage, Neroni deepened her technical skills in medium and large format photography classes. Neroni’s fascination with the image led her on a parallel investigation into film through a Ph.D. in the Cinematic Arts from USC and a subsequent career as a professor teaching film and television studies at the University of Vermont. And though the early demands of this career were somewhat time consuming, Neroni never stopped photographing. Recently, she has rededicated herself to her photography.
These days she finds street photography a style that brings together her early fascination with abstraction and her more current interest in the documentary tradition. Influenced by the traditions of French and American street photography, Neroni’s ongoing project focuses on the way that our public gestures can be both documents of our culture and intimate portraits. She is most drawn toward creating character studies even in the instantaneous encounter.
SPECIALTIES:
Black & White, Documentary, Fine Art, Macro, Portraits, Street Photography
