Dignity — No Matter What!

My pictures are concerned with fundamental aspects of humanity. Loneliness, a search for an all-consuming faith, mortality, love, dignity, despair, and joy are the stories I attempt to show in a way that pleases the formal aspects of light and composition.~ Renato Rampolla

We all have a Light-within. Renato Rampolla finds, sees, and photographs that light to show that despite the state of humanity, there is dignity…No Matter What! We were introduced in an email by Dennis J. Pitocco, Founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of BizCatalyst 360°. I just had to interview Renato on the Kat Kanavos Show Video Podcast on New Earth TV which is posted at the bottom of this article for your viewing pleasure.

Renato is the son of a figurative artist and has been taking photographs since childhood. At an early age, he learned the basics of composition, photography, and sculpting from his father, then went on to study art further while in college. According to Artsy, Figurative Art is a general category for artworks that represent recognizable material in the visible world, as opposed to abstract art. The variety of approaches to figurative art is enormous and almost as diverse as the history of art itself. In painting, figuration ranges from Photorealism like that of Chuck Close to nearly abstract like Pablo Picasso’s Analytic Cubism.

Figurative painting was…