Anthony F. Chiffolo

Artist, Author, and Editor

Photography

Anthony is also a published photographer, having photographed nature from the glaciers of Alaska to the coral reefs of St. Thomas for more than thirty years. His photos of flowers, wildlife, and landscapes have appeared on the covers and in the pages of books such as Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Shrines of the Holy Land, Marian Shrines of the United States, Sadhana, and Affirmations from the Heart of God. His photography has also been published in pamphlets, brochures, catalogs, and magazines such as Bugle, Turkey Call, and Liguorian. He has exhibited and sold his photos at the prestigious Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland; the Fire Island Pines Art Project Biennial Art Show in the Pines, Fire Island, New York; the Hudson River Wildlife Festival in Kingston, New York; and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's "In Celebration of the Bay" in Annapolis, Maryland.

Artist's Statement

When I paint animals, I'm inspired by the great wildlife painters of our day--Robert Bateman, Bonnie Marris, John Seerey-Lester--and of previous eras--Carl Rungius, Louis Agassiz Fuertes--as well as photographers Art Wolfe and Jim Brandenburg. But when painting men, my inspiration tends to come from modern photographers like David Gray, John Edward Fink, Matthew Papa, and the Mascular Studio collective--photographers who depict male beauty in its many real-life manifestations, showing the magnificence (and often erotic energy) of men of every shape and size. And in line with my love of nature, I tend to place my men (yes, when I paint them, I think of them as "mine") in natural settings--after all, as we need to remember, we are all natural beings, part of nature ourselves. So I think there is a deep connection between my paintings of men and my paintings of wildlife.