J.A. Quattro has produced several 111 page, 12x12 inch, lay-flat photo books of Jerusalem, Israel; the PA & Jordan; Galicia, Spain; NYC & the USA. The photographer specializes in panoramas, cityscapes, landscape, architecture & ancient locations of spiritual significance. Images often feature stone arches, alleyways & ruins, some portraiture & journalistic subjects. The photographer-artist creates, designs, & edits their original, digital photo paintings of their original photographs.
Early personal influences on Quattro’s development, besides a musician father & a legal professional mother who could draw & who taught religion, were two neighbors. One was a photographer named Artie Van Blarcum, who was featured, along with Quattro’s childhood home, in a photo biography by photographer George Tice. The other was a ceramics maker & painter named Jackie, with whom the young photographer & future digital artist began a weekly class for neighborhood children. Quattro & Jackie had both been born to Ashkenasy Jewish mothers, but were raised as Christians, which has come to shape the uniquely mixed experience and perspective evident in much of Quattro’s work featuring images that have meaning to many peoples’ identities and many people’s own identities.
As a 17 year old Catholic High School student, in 1995, Quattro took part in the administering of the Eucharist, documenting the Papal Mass given by Pope John Paul II, at Giants Stadium. While taking early admission college credits from Saint Peter’s University, Quattro simultaneously attended night & weekend classes at Orthodox Jewish Seminary, going on to study at a Yeshiva College, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. There is where the artist’s identity & interest in capturing images converged & emerged as a calling, combining history, spirituality & visuality. Quatto continued involvement in organizations that offered opportunity to combine learning, traveling, volunteering and devotion to developing as a photographer and as a person, which included working for Madonna’s children’s charity, in 2007.
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Artist Value Painting 2023 | €800.00 ($861.44)
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I’ll be adding many photographs, from my extensive archive, along with my completed digital photo painting versions of each. My original intent of promoting peace through understanding & inspiration, by sharing my images of Israel’s, Jerusalem’s & Monotheism’s 3000+ years of Jewish national identity, along with its 2 millennia of Christian religious presence, and the art & architecture from the past 1400 years of Muslim imperial rule over the region, has suddenly & shockingly become more poignant than I would ever want to imagine was possible. The negative consequence of feeling hatred towards others is feeling hatred within yourself, at all, making the hater the source of their own misery, because depriving others of peace becomes more important than anything else. My friend was murdered at the peace rave & I’m being targeted relentlessly, but I can only feel hurt & pity for those who choose to hate us, because I love them & think we all deserve to share in the magnificent blessings of life.
Drake reposted my photos of him smoking on stage, with Lil Wayne, on his “On The Road” Instagram account, 6.28.2014, in NJ.
Bobby Shmurda’s manager is the person I recorded recording the rapper who he represents, and he’s also who reposted this recording of mine on his official website.
Machine Gun Kelly pays $50,000 to perform longer, as Iann Dior exists Madison Square Garden, 6.28.2022.
Coldplay covers BTS, on their duet, “My Universe”, at MetLife Stadium, NJ, 6.5.22.
Coldplay performs, “Adventure of a Lifetime”, at MetLife Stadium, NJ, 6.5.22.
Taylor Swift exists Madonna’s 10.12.2019 Brooklyn, NYC, Madame ❌ tour, after partying with the Queen of Pop.
A covered up, tipsy Madonna almost hits her head on her SUV door, exiting her 10.12.2019 Brooklyn, NYC, Madame ❌ show, after partying with Taylor Swift.
Madonna sticks her tongue out, exiting her 9.28.2019 Brooklyn, NYC, Madame ❌ show.
Bruce Springsteen performing as a special guest of Coldplay, at MetLife Stadium, 6.5.22.
Michael J. Fox joins Coldplay, to reprise his scene in Back to the Future, playing guitar on the songs, “Earth Angel”, and “Johnny B. Goode”. NYC radio station Z100 published my recording.
Madonna invites Ariana Grande to try something new.
Awarded me runner-up for best international photo
Published my concert recording of Coldplay
Published several of my concert recordings
Published several of my concert recordings
Publish several of my concert Recordings
