Ken Marchionno Photography

08/19/2024

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08/01/2024

08/01/2024

beautiful cool night in the mountains

07/28/2024

Arsenal vs Manchester United

07/25/2024

I’m excited announce an upcoming exhibition of my project and its inclusion in the John Fante Festival, a literary festival in Torricella Peligna this August.

below a translation of the mention in “la Republica”.

“Also on the program is the exhibition “Verso Patria” by the Italian-American photographer Ken Marchionno, in collaboration with the magazine TNZ - Tnèmmz’ngundatt and the municipality of Colledimezzo. All events have free admission, subject to availability”

07/25/2024

from TNZ: The voice of Colledimezzo

We are honored to be quoted for the first time in the national headline Repubblica for its collaboration with the prestigious John Fante Festival “Il dio di mio padre” in organizing the photographic exhibition “Towards homeland”, by the artist Ken Marchionno Photography

➡️ Stay tuned to get all the details of the event.

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07/25/2024

La nuova edizione del Festival “Il dio di mio padre” a Torricella Peligna dal 22 al 25 agosto

06/19/2024

Happy Juneteenth

Two years ago we started “What’s Your Story?”. Everard Williams and I set up an ArtCenter booth at the Leimert Park Juneteenth celebration where students made and gifted portraits to over 50 attendees. Over the course of the next year Manjari Sharma joined in and we continued the project gifting hundreds of portraits at cultural events across the LA Basin. But we’re not done yet. The project took a hiatus while I was on sabbatical but we’ll be back this Fall. Look for us at events throughout the city and help us approach an equitable portrait of diversity that adds to the representation of our great city. Pictured above, from Juneteenth 2022:
Lakisha Mumford, Harper and Kortney Lucas, Mychel Scott and her son, and Ernest McRae

05/01/2024

My hotel is only five minutes from the Vatican. I thought I had booked a different location, closer to the Coliseum, but so it is. There’s a lot more Catholic iconography around me.
I was able to catch the Pope on the big screen make a statement regarding just before the rains started.
Then the statues along the Ponte San Angelo were in perfect light as the skies briefly opened up asI headed south toward Circo Massimo. Along the way, a downpour caused me to seek shelter in the Santa Maria in Campitelli where the relics of San Giovanni Leonardi are held.
The spectacle of the interior is stunning, perhaps designed to overwhelm any concern for Leonardi’s role in the brutal treatment of protestants in his fervor to stop the reformation.

04/30/2024

As I eat my pizza at an alley cafe off Borgo San Angelo, there’s a roving duet, accordion and guitar, playing a mashup of My Way and Somewhere Over the Rainbow. They skillfully transition between the two and if you didn’t recognize the tune, you’d think it was one song.

It’ll take a while to feel this is normal.

04/29/2024

As I have final meals, learn how to make chitara and wax sentimental, I know I will share this journey for the rest of my life. And while I hope to return, there isn’t a person here who hasn’t told me they know I will be back. Perhaps it’s obvious, I have never mastered the poker face.
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