Salutations! My name is Jamie Delle Monache and I am a photographer. Like my father, my life has been wrapped around the graphic arts. My start came in the early 1970s, when the mediums of photography and lithography gelled and created an era of high-quality printed matter. We worked a darkroom back then, and graphic artists needed to be part chemist. Making printed work on paper required an understanding of how things like tonal scale, and the color of the camera original translates into half-tone and then into ink on paper. The process was magical to a grade schooler. The alchemy that happened in the darkroom, the manipulation of light sensitive material to make an image which was going to be reproduced literally hundreds of thousands of times, it was Walter Benjamin's worst nightmare; I loved it.
A lot has happened between a kid working in their father's printshop and now, a lot of classical education, and a lot of practical working experience, specifically in the world of monthly magazines where I made my livelihood for the last twenty-five years, for more info on that, you can click here. But this website is not about what I do for money. It's about the photography I do. Although I do admit, it was my travel as a publishing workflow consultant that allowed me the opportunity to pursue my street photography in some of Europe and Asia's greatest cities. So, to some degree one enabled the other.
Click on the maps to get into the galleries. The carousels are only a smattering of the pictures in the portfolios. When I get my copy stand setup again, I will add to them, and more galleries will be coming. As one would guess just by the homepage, this site is slim on navigational links. As I get more time to develop it, moving around will get easier, but for now the back button is sometimes the best choice.
The written entries that follow are a collection of musings, rants, and ideas about the photographs presented here. I see these entries as a collage of thoughts mostly strung together chronologically. I'm going back through a lot of old notes from when I was traveling, trying to refine ideas. So, entries will be popping up. Any of the writings which are directly related to specific bodies of pictures will be linked accordingly. I ask you not to judge my writing to harshly, I am a photographer not a journalist. I promise to try to make my words coherent. Oh, and did I mention there is a guest book?
