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AMATO Magazine
Welcome to the inaugural issue of AMATO
52 pages,
67 photographs
8 beautiful men
Free and Uninhibited
Provincetown Summer 2024
Available December 2024
Artists of Provincetown
This beautifully crafted art book highlights artists working in the oldest art colony in the United States at the beginning of the 21st. century. Made over a period of eight years, Amato has created 84 deeply penetrating portraits that illustrate the breadth and depth of the community. The book includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham, who is also a subject of the book.
100 -
Members Only -
Vol. 1
Thirteen years in the making, this beautifully crafted, limited edition book is finally available. It contains 100 images from my Members Only collection, printed with an archival duotone process. The book has a hard cover of black linen with gold metallic embossing. It is 8.5x11 inches. Culled from over 10,000 images, this selection is edited to bring you a rich and unique experience. Each copy of this limited edition will be signed and numbered.
For a limited time I am offering 3 different book/print bundles at a reduced price. All prints are limited editions of 3, signed and numbered.
Playing in the Sunlight: Provincetown 1999-2022
Exhibition at E. Lesh Gallery, Provincetown
July 2023
The Box
Focused on themes of isolation, desire, conflict and empowerment, Ron Amato’s photographic series and book, The Box, speaks to human experiences of self-discovery and community building. Using a series of boxes to create visual metaphors, Ron echoes his development from adolescence to adulthood through over 100 color, and black and white photographs. Evoking first his youth in Brooklyn, New York during the 1960s and 1970s, moving through his coming out as a gay man and to his present position as a respected professional photographer and teacher, Ron creates a vivid portrait of struggle and triumph.
Gay In Trumpland
Beginning with the selection of a running mate who is unabashedly anti-gay, to a series of presidential nominations of people with histories of anti-gay agendas, the former president and administration of the United States engaged in a war against the LGBTQ community that continues today. After years of our community making steady gains in employment, housing and education rights, as well as legal recognition of same-sex relationships, this administration is continually dismantling those gains.
Kirkpinar: Images of Turkish Oil Wrestling
In July of 2001 I traveled to Edirne, Turkey to photograph the ancient sport of oil wrestling. This was the 640th year of Kirkpinar, a tournament started by the Ottoman army pitting soldier against soldier.