Biography

David Modica is a commercial and fine art photographer living in Louisville, Kentucky. He shoots a diverse range of subjects for his commercial clients from architecture and interiors to products and people. His personal work is expressed in black and white and printed in a traditional darkroom.

Combining his passion for personal work with commercial photography produces a synergistic effect evident in his work. He believes that fine art and commercial photography are not separate but very much related to each other. One feeds and influences the other creating an expression that elicits an emotional response rather than just an image on paper.

Modica’s work tends to be thematic and project-based. He enjoys capturing places and buildings of historical significance as well as the urban landscape. His affection for old buildings takes him west to photograph ghost towns to capture the energy of those once thriving towns and as a means of preserving their place in history. In addition to his ongoing project of western ghost towns, David completed a one-year project revealing the beauty of the Bourbon Stock Yards in Louisville just prior to its demolition in 2000.

David is represented by PYRO Gallery; an artist’s cooperative in Louisville, Kentucky. His work is in many private and corporate collections and at the University of Louisville Photo Archives.