Donna Tramontozzi

Becoming Animal

To see a wild animal in the natural world is a sublime joy, but one not easy to attain.  While aquariums are not natural, I can easily wait for quiet moments when the animal has forgotten me and slips into its own concerns. I watch for flashes of innate awareness, of each animal’s essence.

These images fuel my fantasies where I swoop like an otter, lurk like an octopus, strive for the surface like a turtle, contort like a swan, gather like a school of fish, and sleekly fly though water.

While animals are sentient, theirs is not a human consciousness. How does what they sense affect their behavior? In this personal project, I search for hints as to the nature of that cognizance.

Artist Bio

Donna Tramontozzi is a nature and travel photographer based in Boston, Cape Cod and any other places her travels take her. She uses photography to explore the hidden worlds of natural phenomena, paying particular attention to fauna both in the wild and in captive places. The dreamy, often abstract quality of her images illuminates the secret enclaves inhabited by living creatures, providing an emotional visual language to describe their habitat.

Donna has studied at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts. Her solo exhibition Optical Shards has been shown at the Griffin-affiliated galleries in Stoneham and Easthampton. She has exhibited in multiple juried shows shown in New England.

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