Gilman Contemporary

Michael Massaia master of the traditional gelatin silver printing process. A self-taught photographer Michael Massaia creates exquisitely luminous black-and-white images of New York City in moments of quietude. An insomniac, Massaia began taking large-format photographs on long, nighttime walks around his native New Jersey and became fascinated by the ghostly quality of metropolitan spaces devoid of people, leading him to build up a body of work that explores public places at night, as their patrons sleep. In his “Deep in a Dream” series, Massaia turned his lens toward the typically bustling Central Park in a state of early morning repose. “Capturing the park between the hours of 2am and 6am was my attempt to capture the city in its most haunting, desolate, and inviting moments,” Massaia says. The tonally rich images, which recall the photographs of Hiroshi Sugimoto or Brett Weston, express the sometimes otherworldly, isolating experiences of urban life. Michael works alone and is the sole craftsman from the instant the negative is exposed to the moment the final print is made. American, b. 1978, New Jersey

Michael Massaia has significant press coverage. Below is a list of just as few. Please contact the gallery for a complete list.

Quiet Lunch - 2017
Flavorwire-2017
Slate Behold-2016
La Boite Verte - 2016
The Guardian-2016
The Washington Post