Louis Henri Pingitore

Color Scape Studio offers original photographic compositions that reflect the fluid nature of light, color, shape, and line—when stripped of form. Founded in October 2012 by its principal, Louis Henri Pingitore, and located at 5 Pemberton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, its mission is to inspire a more expansive way of perceiving reality, by juxtaposing what we see with what can be imagined.

The process employed is an in-camera technique, using a single exposure and natural directional light. Minimal editing of color saturation and balance has been done post-production, and no Photoshop is used.

The captured moments reveal a parallel universe in which reality and possibility commingle playfully. In this world, the opposites, color/tone, line/shape, light/dark, and push/pull, merge and clash to create dynamic tensions that resolve into peaceful, life-affirming, harmonic images.

The son of a U.S. diplomat, Pingitore was born in 1963 in Paris, France. His childhood was spent living in far-flung outposts such as Mogadishu (Somalia), Oran (Algeria), Peshawar (Pakistan), and Port-au-Prince (Haiti), alternating with a year’s post at home base in Washington, D.C. As an adult, Pingitore has also traveled widely, visiting countr...

An avid photographer since childhood, Pingitore had a breakthrough in 2009 when he developed a new photographic expression of light. He has studied extensively under the artist-instructor Remy Dubois at FACIL-Art, a Cambridge-based, French-American language and art collaborative. Dubois has praised his work as “hauntingly beautiful,” and declared that Pingitore “has created a new form of photography.”

2015:
Groton Public Library, Groton, MA, solo show
Elephant Walk Restaurant, South End, (Boston, MA): Solo Show
Norris Cotton Cancer Center (Manchester, NH): “Healing with Art,” Group Show
Roberts Gallery, Lesley University (Cambridge MA): “In Sight,” Group Show
Eclipse Mill Gallery (North Adams, MA): “Berkshire Salon,” Group Show
University Place Gallery (Cambridge, MA): “Photography Now,” Group Show
Boston Properties, 99 Broadway, Kendall Square, (Cambridge, MA): Solo Show
Project: Teams with Colors In Motion to create “Light Beings” video, an audio-visual
installation for public spaces. On May 8th, “Light Beings” was a TEDX performance at Piscataqua River, NH.
2014:
Panopticon Gallery (Boston, MA): “Abstract (Photo) Expressionist,” Group show
Gallery Seven (Maynard, MA): “Chroma," Group show
Wellesley Public Library (Wellesley, MA): Solo Show
Gauvin Gallery, Mount Auburn Hospital (Cambridge, MA): Six-Month Solo Show
Boston Properties, Google Lobby (Cambridge, MA): Year-Long Solo Show
Elephant Walk Restaurant (Cambridge, MA): Rotating Collection on Exhibit
Award: “Degage” wins Purchase Prize at the Cambridge Arts Council 2013-2014 Invitational Juried Exhibit.
2013:
Photographic Sculpture “The Sensitometric...