{"id":460,"date":"2022-02-18T05:28:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/?page_id=460"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:18:19","slug":"digital-photography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/?page_id=460","title":{"rendered":"Digital Compositing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pietronigro&#8217;s projects are not merely conceptual or interpretive; they are direct, intentional uses of art to confront social injustices, foster dialogue, and build community. He actively leverages art to intervene in societal issues. While many artists explore social themes, Pietronigro&#8217;s consistent, direct, and collaborative engagement with specific, often challenging, social issues (LGBTQ+ rights, bullying, equality) distinguishes him as a highly effective and committed social practitioner. His art serves as a vehicle for tangible social change and advocacy, moving beyond critique to active participation in community development and justice movements. This proactive, interventionist approach is a key differentiator for this artist especially when expressed in the forms of digital compositing and video projects that are abstract, surreal and joyful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Wedding-Liberty-by-Frank-Pietronigro-COPYRIGHGT-2008-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Wedding-Liberty-by-Frank-Pietronigro-COPYRIGHGT-2008-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Wedding-Liberty-by-Frank-Pietronigro-COPYRIGHGT-2008-1-300x300.jpg 300w, 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data-id=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Equality-and-Justice-For-All-Offset-Print-2422x1822-Frank-Pietronigro-New-Media-Artist-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-780\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/I-Want-You-For-The-US-Army-by-Frank-Pietronigro.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-509\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I Want You For The US Army<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1625\" height=\"1080\" data-id=\"782\" src=\"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Biophilia-Pigment-Print-2022x3022-Frank-Pietronigro-New-Media-Artist-1625x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-782\" 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He actively leverages art to intervene in societal issues. While many artists explore social themes, Pietronigro&#8217;s consistent, direct, and collaborative engagement with specific, often challenging, social issues (LGBTQ+ rights, bullying, equality)Continue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-thumb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions\/1117"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pietronigro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}