Manuel J Branco

I'm a Boston-based artist working in multiple media and genres including painting, digital work, photography and sculpture. I'm currently working with a Nikon D610 & D810 cameras/lenses as well as HD cell cameras such as the Motorola one hyper 64 MP. My digital manipulations and post-production photographic work, I use a variety of digital tools such as Adobe Photoshop Elements and Irfanview. I'm working increasingly with cell cameras to produce images - especially candid and street photography. Cell phones are so ubiquitous now you can get away with a lot more. People aren't so intimidated by their use even in more intimate locations. I've been using a moto X pure with a powerful 21 MP rear camera and have just upgraded to their new 64 MP rear camera in the Motorola one hyper edition.

I've made a good part of my living as an R&D lab technician for high tech firms but have always been a struggling dedicated artist.

My strongest influences are Francis Bacon / Cy Twombly / Antony Gormley / Sigmar Polke / Hans Hofmann / William de Kooning / Rauschenberg / Jasper Johns / Thomas Struth just to name a few.

I specialize in abstraction and demolition/disaster porn as it has been referred to - as in the ruin porn genre.

I'm ...

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston / Tufts University

I'm a freelance independent artist. I am not represented or affiliated with a gallery. For a more comprehensive view of my art please visit my Flickr galleries and profile:

https://www.flickr.com/people/manuelbranco/

If you see something there you would like uploaded here at Saatchi for purchase, please email me a request for the particular image (title or url) you're interested in at mbmanray@msn.com or request it directly from saatchi. Identify the piece by it's url page from my Flickr galleries. example:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/manuelbranco/39496950645/in/photostream

Thank you for viewing my art.

MB