Biography – Adrian Panaro
Adrian Panaro became a photographer while traveling extensively throughout Afghanistan, India and Nepal. After attaining an undergraduate degree in Anthropology he decided to continue with photography. Relocating to New York City, he soon found employment with the renowned portrait and fashion photographer Richard Avedon.

With Avedon, he learned the fine points of studio lighting, participated in book design, served a stint as studio manager, and assisted in the mounting of a major retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

After three years with Avedon, Panaro worked with fashion photographer Bill King in Paris and New York. He then branched out on his own and became a free-lance editorial and advertising photographer. A partial list of publications that featured his work includes  Actuel (France), American Photographer, Architectural Digest, Attenzione (Italy), Barrons, Details, Donna (Italy),  New York Magazine, The New York Times and The Village Voice.

Some of the many people he has photographed include the British novelist Martin Amis, the French actress  Emmanuelle Béart, the American novelist T. C. Boyle, Oscar winner Linda Hunt, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe  and legendary rock and roller Chuck Berry.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 rendered Panaro’s residence/studio uninhabitable and in 2002 he and his wife decided to move with their two young sons and begin a new life in New Mexico. For the past several years Panaro has been devoting his efforts in photography to documentary based snapshot and street photography using the instincts that originally led him to be an artist working in photography. One of these recent works was accepted into the collection of the Albuquerque Museum of History and Art and others are in private collections.