Hs Ray

After leaving the U.S. to live in the home town of my immigrant mother from Italy, I departed for a world-travelling adventure that took me for extended periods of time through 40 countries during the span of 15 years.
I always returned to Italy, where I still today stably work from. After conducting business in various sectors tied to foreign trade, I set my sites on exploring the field my maternal grandfather worked in: marble. In fact he operated a quarry in Carrara and I wanted to use this extraodinary material to create unique artworks and architectural elements. This I did through the creation of my own artistic studio and of a de-facto consortium comprised of some of the finest artistic artisans and artists in the city of Pietrasanta, where I reside, along the northern coast of Tuscany.
My passion for photography grew constantly through my using this medium to document the artworks and architecture created by my studio and the consortium. Finding the ideal settings and views of these works became my mission and this sparked the idea I developed of Art Photography concentrated on photographing unique art.
From that moment on, I photographed the works of internationally acclaimed artists as well as the up and coming. The...