About

Fernando Gaglianese is a Philadelphia photographer and digital retouching artist.

The obsession with photography and image-making started at a very young age. I can remember very fondly my first photographs, always vying for a chance to look through the viewfinder and press the button. Every bookshop I went with my mother, I would always look for any books in photography. My mother had been a school teacher and loved books, so she indulged any passion even for books beyond my six year old reading level.

Photographers by necessity have always been technologists and my love of cameras and images easily dovetailed into my love of gadgetry and technology. Just before senior high school I put my love of photography to the side. Sadly, I had the notion that I could never make a living for myself doing what I loved. I pursued first engineering, and then information technology — the former without any success, the latter to eventual disillusion.

And then the digital revolution in photography hit, and without realizing I saw my way back to that early love. It wasn’t until a good friend gave me an old Canon AE-1 and I started exposing film for the first time in many years that it all started falling into place again for me. I returned to school and after many sacrifices I earned my photography degree.

Honed skills as a digital retouching artist.

Even while pursuing that other life, my interests held me gravitating to digital imaging. I have spent more than a decade using and learning the different tools of digital manipulation and retouching.

Since 2007 I have been working with location and architectural photographer, Greg Benson. Greg is a fellow Philadelphia area photographer that specializes in shooting places and people on location. For the last few years I have been retouching Greg’s environmental portraits and architectural photographs.