Jesselli Oval Hole Canvas Print

I photographed Joseph Jesselli's guitars for the artist's portfolio when he was still living in West Virginia.
Jesselli guitars are a seamless blend of modern technology and the classic aesthetics of Art Deco and Art Nouveau. Each instrument is designed and built by Joseph Jesselli, and they are hand-made in the truest sense. As a result each instrument is unique. However they all share a design philosophy that has matured over the course of three decades of guitar-making.

Photography, to me, involves seeing the light and capturing the moment: the colorful illumination in the sky just before sunrise; bright sunlight dancing on the bubbling current, the glint in the eye of a mockingbird, soft reflected light caressing the face of a child, the dynamic reflection of the setting sun on the beach. As a photographer, I use my camera to share with others my vision of the world. I have been making photographs for as long as I can remember. From images of nature and my surroundings growing up in northern Germany, to photo-journalism in Hamburg, Germany. I always gravitated toward a career in photography. Immigrating to the United States in the 1970s, I built a reputation in portrait photography, and ran a...