Deanna Camputaro

Deanna Camputaro is a freelance photographer and short film maker. She has worked on film sets for AFRI and is a photographer and filmmaker for Dancing Legacy. During the COVID crisis she created her breakout short film capturing, compiling and editing dance work of 60 dancers from Florida to New York. Her photographic work revolves around a broad definition of portraiture, the world of dance, equine photography, and a documentary style of land, sea, and city-scapes, many times capturing the effects of global warming. Deanna strives to capture moments in life as they happen and evolve over time. She wants to communicate the story of us all and the place upon which we live.

Deanna believes in the traditional forms of planning for photo shoots and film production, however, she finds the greatest parts of stories are in the unexpected moments of surprise. She marvels at how they can change the focus of the work. She believes development, pre and post production are not linear, but cyclical. This allows the subjects the space to drive the story through those unexpected moments.  

“I am an investigator with my lens. I want to find the story that unfolds. Sometimes this is very different from the one I planned.  It takes more time to float back and forth through the cycle.  To me it is worth it.  It feels much more authentic. The narrative really does not belong to me. It belongs to my subjects. It is a collaboration…what parts they are willing to let me capture and what parts I can bring together to honor the true spirit of the subject.”