Mike Decesare

I began taking pictures as a child, using a Kodak film camera. Soon after, I started developing film, realizing that post capture was as important and creative as taking the picture. Analog made perfect sense to me, despite its chemical messiness, such as it is.

Over the years, I tried to put photography aside, but it never worked. After all, there was life and responsibilities; surely, you know what I mean. Unspoken, but always quietly present, and enormously influential, was self-doubt. So, while I never stopped taking pictures, I was like the friend we all have, who talks out loud in gibberish to drown out what’s being said inside.

After a career in television and a few other stops, always involving photography, there was no avoiding it. By now, digital was slowly, inextricably, replacing analog – and I didn’t like it. I knew and trusted medium format photography and film. Finally, it occurred to me: Don’t leave analog behind; rather, take everything I know and love in film and apply it in digital. And so, I did.

University of Illinois, Bachelor, Communications
New York Institute of Photography, Graduate

Art Spirit Gallery, US, March, 2025
New Moon Gallery, US, April, 2025