John Paul Caponigro (born June 23, 1965 Boston) is an Environmental Fine Art Landscape Photographer. He is the son of the American photographer Paul Caponigro and Eleanor Caponigro a graphic designer. John Paul attended Yale University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz where he was trained as a painter and later as a photographer. After college John moved to Maine and became an artist in residence at The Center for Creative Imaging. John now works with photo-based digital imaging as his primary medium. Dan Steinhardt of Epson considers John Paul “…one of the great mentors of the photographic medium”. The American photographer Joyce Tenneson has said, “John Paul Caponigro is the rare combination of gifted artist and master technician. He works from the heart to create images that are poetic and evocative, and at times, mystical. He is someone whose sensitivity and intelligence work to break new ground, and someone I will enjoy watching in the years to come.”. He has been awarded membership into many photographic organizations including the Photoshop Hall of Fame, the Epson Stylus Pros,[6] Xrite Coloratti,[7] and the Canon Explorers of Light.[8] His work crosses the lines between photography and painting and displays knowledge of painterly composition and color theory, coupled with content of modern science, psychology, primal cultures, and the environment. The photographer Arnold Newman stated,”…Caponigro’s mysterious and magical images go beyond reality or surrealism. He has created a wonderful new world of his own”.[9] John Paul Caponigro lives in Cushing, Maine with his photographer wife Arduina, and their son.
From 1990 to 2011 John Paul Caponigro has had over 110 group and solo shows.[10] He has shown internationally in Italy at the Museo Archeologico Regionale, Val d’Aosta,[11] and the VIR, SpA, Milan. John has shown his work in the United States in galleries and museums such as the Palm Beach Photographic Centre Museum, Delray Beach, FL and the Pingree Gallery in East Hampton, NY, and the Pasadena Museum of California Art, CA. He has a yearly gallery showing of his newest work each August at his gallery/studio in Cushing, ME.[12]