Fontana, Roberto

His parents, Italian immigrants dedicated to the field of photography, imparted to him his initial knowledge and instilled in him a rich devotion to art. Starting in 1967, he began working in advertising photography, but in 1978, after attending the First Latin American Photography Colloquium in Mexico, he dedicated himself entirely to photography as an expressive language. This same experience also led him to participate, along with other colleagues, in the creation of the Venezuelan Photography Council in Caracas. In 1980, he did still photography for the film "Pandora," with patients from the Anare psychiatric hospital. He divides his life between Venezuela and Italy, and his work traverses the vast thematic universe of nostalgia, loneliness, and absence.