Michael Detto

My method is street photography; I use montage only for conceptual projects.
Through my work, I seek out compositions that explore the shadows, the margins, and the decay that often are borne out of guilt and neglect. The shadow does not represent nothing, it is for me more alive than its source.

2013 Photography Certificate Program, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
2012 “Type 25”, Typography class, UCLA Design Media Arts Department, Los Angeles, lecturer Noa Kaplan 2010.
1994–1996 postgraduate studies, film school in Łódź, Poland; final work was being producer, director, screenwriter of the film Żertwa, jeśli chcecie (35 mm, color and B/W, 35 min.)
1984–1988 major studies humanities, art history and Romance philology.

GROUP SHOWS
January/February 2025 LACDA Electron Salon
May-July 2023 "Life and Death - 2023", Biafarin/Exhibizone
June-July 2023 "Time - 2023", Biafarin/Exhibizone
2015 “Cabinet of Ghosts”, OCCCA, Santa Ana
2014 “Ghosts”, ARENA 1 Gallery, Santa Monica

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 “Cambodian Ghosts”, Meta House Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2001 “Auf der Jagd nach dem KSM” (Hunting the KSM), Literatur Moths, Munich
1997 “Der Groteske Raum” (The Grotesque Room), Domagk-Ateliers, Munich
1995 “Photo Works” on the occasion of the art convention “Candid Camera”, Łódź , Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Venice Art Walk”, invited since 2007 to participate in the yearly fundraiser
2011 “In the Electron Salon”, LACDA, Los Angeles
2011 “Energy”, juried group exhibition, OCCCA, Santa Ana
1997 Art Fair “Eigenart”, Wamsler Hallen, Munich