When it comes to photographic dynasties, the name Caponigro holds a privileged position at the top of the list. The father / son duo of Paul and John Paul Caponigro are masters of their respective crafts, spanning many years and a broad reach, from the muted tonalities and classical elegance of Paul’s large format landscapes to John Paul’s complex, ethereal digital composites.
In 2016, B&H Photo hosted father and son as invited speakers at the B&H OPTIC Conference, where they both presented their work to great acclaim. Off stage, they also chatted about art, nature, and spirit with the Explora podcast team. After recently drawing inspiration from this archived content, we decided to take a deeper dive into the family history and respective working methods of these legendary artists in celebration of Father’s Day.
We caught up with John Paul Caponigro in a conversation over Zoom, and we present excerpts from our chat below, with their 2016 OPTIC presentations and podcast audio interspersed with the text.
Jill Waterman: Your father discovered photography as a young boy by watching his grandmother take a picture with a box camera. What’s your earliest memory of your father’s photographic practice?
John Paul Caponigro: When Dad got his first Guggenheim grant in the mid-’60s, he was thinking about going to Egypt, but it was dicey back then, and Mom said, “You know, Ireland has these great megalithic monuments, maybe we should try those.” So, we went, and he fell in love with the whole place.
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