calethia deConto

"Calethia DeConto’s warm, blurry photographs mounted on wood conjure up Maya Deren’s experimental film masterpiece, Meshes of the Afternoon, with its poetic evocation of inner experience."

-Jesi Khadivi

Whitehot | November 2008

"Memories and the past figure largely in her inspiration. An aficionado of all things vintage, she appreciates "old dusty things...antiques and yard sales and the junk someone threw out."

-Miles Harrigan

ISM | March 2008

"She reminds me of being that teenager again, where just seeing something perfectly captured in time was enough. Criticalness always comes with age, and although we’re often better in our chosen fields for it, our overanalyzing can sometimes be more of curse than a blessing. Calethia gets it both ways. As a writer, she’s always moved me. And as an editor, she’s always satisfied me."

-Seth Combs, editor & writer

January 2008

"some of your pictures are such wonderfully executed documents that really my first thoughts after seeing them were, my god, this belongs in a nasa archive for sending into deep space. after the sun collapses and robots inherit everything, some alien traveler will find it and have a sense of what the heart of man was like. or woman i guess."

-Tony the Truck Driver, artist

November 2007

"Her daddy must have been a carpenter, 'cause she sure is built."

-Ike Turner

Sometime in 2004

"You are leaps and bounds better than most still photographers on set.  Good luck."

-Michael Peluso, Producer

April 2009, Los Angeles