ACTOR & EDUCATOR
Heyooooo, my name is Chris Garofalo and I am a Native New Yorker, Actor, Photographer & Teaching Artist. After earning a BFA in Acting From the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, I decided to move back to NYC to pursue the creative field of performance and photography. While trying to sustain my own professional acting career, I seek to work within arts education outreach programs around the city. My ongoing mission in the classroom is to inspire confidence and comfortability, and I find sharing with younger students to be one of my most vital jobs as a performance-maker.
FILM PHOTOGRAPHER
There is something special about film. Maybe it's the fact that you snap a photo and don't have the ability to instantly zoom in and over analyze it like you would on a smartphone or DSLR. You look through the lens, find the moment, capture it and then immediately have to remove yourself from it until it's developed. I think that is my favorite part about this type of photography. It's always thrilling to turn in film for development not remembering what exactly is on the roll. It's that element of surprise that makes the memory of the photo even more visceral for me. For Inquiries: ChrisJGarofalo@gmail.com