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Dante Crisafulla

The visitation of Suffolk County Community Colleges alum Dante Crisafulla was very interesting and informative. He talked about how he originally was introduced to photograph by his grandfather who shot officers and in the navy. Like myself, and many other people who live on long island he shot abandoned building such as Kings park Psychiatric center.

Dante also talked about his job out of high school in financing and how dissatisfied he was doing that which is what pushed him into going to school for photography, this stuck out to me because it stressed the fact that you could start your photography career at anytime. Dante also talked about how getting into video completely changed the game and opened up a ton of new doors.

Dante’s work is very powerful, especially the Right to Dream videos showing 2 soccer players from Africa Francis and Fati and their journey.