Jeff Curto
@jeffcurto.bsky.social
Photographer • Educator • Storyteller
Passionate about creativity, human connection, and the inspiration found in remarkable places. Sharing my experiences by leading immersive photography workshops in Italy. https://linktr.ee/jeffcurto
Passionate about creativity, human connection, and the inspiration found in remarkable places. Sharing my experiences by leading immersive photography workshops in Italy. https://linktr.ee/jeffcurto
My latest Substack post - Rome, seen through windows – glass, shadow, reflections, and the small negotiations between inside and outside.
This set came from slowing down and letting the city arrive in fragments rather than scenes.
This set came from slowing down and letting the city arrive in fragments rather than scenes.
Rome, Through Windows
Thresholds, distance, and the spaces between
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February 6, 2026 at 11:26 PM
My latest Substack post - Rome, seen through windows – glass, shadow, reflections, and the small negotiations between inside and outside.
This set came from slowing down and letting the city arrive in fragments rather than scenes.
This set came from slowing down and letting the city arrive in fragments rather than scenes.
The Umbrian town of Orvieto sits high and a little apart. What stays with me is the balance between the monumental and the everyday, how easily they coexist here. These photographs and thoughts in my most recent Substack post come from walking slowly and feeling the shift from arrival to intention.
Striped Stone, Quiet Streets
Walking Orvieto
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January 30, 2026 at 5:20 PM
The Umbrian town of Orvieto sits high and a little apart. What stays with me is the balance between the monumental and the everyday, how easily they coexist here. These photographs and thoughts in my most recent Substack post come from walking slowly and feeling the shift from arrival to intention.
Winter has me thinking forward – to spring workshops, to Sorrento, to the languid calm of the Bay of Naples. The views, the air, the stillness of a cloister in the middle of the day. Some places warm you long before you arrive.
January 26, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Winter has me thinking forward – to spring workshops, to Sorrento, to the languid calm of the Bay of Naples. The views, the air, the stillness of a cloister in the middle of the day. Some places warm you long before you arrive.
Just booked my April flights back to New Orleans for French Quarter Fest and I’m already thinking in color. Looking forward to great music and a city that holds on tight to light, heat, and history.
January 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Just booked my April flights back to New Orleans for French Quarter Fest and I’m already thinking in color. Looking forward to great music and a city that holds on tight to light, heat, and history.
My latest Substack post brings together images and ideas about Rome – fragments of moments that live in the city’s contradictions. One minute you’re standing in front of something worn smooth by time and weather. The next, you’re distracted by the way light folds across a tablecloth.
Rome, in Fragments
How moments accumulate without a map
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January 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
My latest Substack post brings together images and ideas about Rome – fragments of moments that live in the city’s contradictions. One minute you’re standing in front of something worn smooth by time and weather. The next, you’re distracted by the way light folds across a tablecloth.
In the grayness of a Lake Superior winter, color takes on a new dimension.
Snow and ice absorb and return the atmosphere around them. Light skims the surface, never staying long.
Snow and ice absorb and return the atmosphere around them. Light skims the surface, never staying long.
January 12, 2026 at 7:58 PM
In the grayness of a Lake Superior winter, color takes on a new dimension.
Snow and ice absorb and return the atmosphere around them. Light skims the surface, never staying long.
Snow and ice absorb and return the atmosphere around them. Light skims the surface, never staying long.
My latest Substack post: Cortona and the lived weight of tradition - a combination of photographs and a short essay about attention, ritual, and the discipline of remembering. Archers, flags, and the moments in between.
The Moment Before Release
Cortona and the lived weight of tradition
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January 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
My latest Substack post: Cortona and the lived weight of tradition - a combination of photographs and a short essay about attention, ritual, and the discipline of remembering. Archers, flags, and the moments in between.
My latest Substack post sets aside color and lets light, shadow and texture take the lead. Stripping away hue changes how the hill town of Cortona feels – less about seeing and more about sensing. Stone meets shadow, glass holds quiet light and evening lamps simply hold space.
Cortona Passeggiata – Sesta
Photographs from my walks around Cortona, Tuscany (number 6)
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January 3, 2026 at 3:26 AM
My latest Substack post sets aside color and lets light, shadow and texture take the lead. Stripping away hue changes how the hill town of Cortona feels – less about seeing and more about sensing. Stone meets shadow, glass holds quiet light and evening lamps simply hold space.
My latest Substack post shares photographs of Italy’s Dolomite mountains and thoughts about how their vastness impacts our sense of what it means to be human.
The Earth's Unfinished Thoughts
Photographing the Dolomites, where stone and weather shape each other
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December 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My latest Substack post shares photographs of Italy’s Dolomite mountains and thoughts about how their vastness impacts our sense of what it means to be human.
My latest Substack post shares images and thoughts about photographing in the blindingly white towns of Italy’s Puglia region.
The Discipline of White
Tone, texture, and the pull of Puglia’s whitewashed towns
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December 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
My latest Substack post shares images and thoughts about photographing in the blindingly white towns of Italy’s Puglia region.
Rain changes Venice in a way nothing else does. The light softens, the colors deepen, and the whole place seems to ease back a notch. The melancholy that settles in isn’t sadness so much as a kind of tenderness — a reminder that beauty doesn’t always need sunlight to make itself known.
December 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Rain changes Venice in a way nothing else does. The light softens, the colors deepen, and the whole place seems to ease back a notch. The melancholy that settles in isn’t sadness so much as a kind of tenderness — a reminder that beauty doesn’t always need sunlight to make itself known.
My latest post Across the Silence (Attraverso il Silenzio in Italian) features images and a video in panoramic format - an interesting departure for me. I invite you to take a look.
Attraverso il Silenzio : Through The Silence
Influence, Awareness and Attention to the Edges
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November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My latest post Across the Silence (Attraverso il Silenzio in Italian) features images and a video in panoramic format - an interesting departure for me. I invite you to take a look.
A shaft of late afternoon light grazes Cortona’s clock tower. It’s not terribly dramatic, but it’s the kind of moment that reminds me why I keep bringing photographers here; not for the landmarks, but for these small, passing bits of time that change the way you see. That’s the real workshop moment.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A shaft of late afternoon light grazes Cortona’s clock tower. It’s not terribly dramatic, but it’s the kind of moment that reminds me why I keep bringing photographers here; not for the landmarks, but for these small, passing bits of time that change the way you see. That’s the real workshop moment.
My latest Substack post presents images and ideas about the beauty of November light on the Bay of Naples. I invite you to take a look.
What Remains of the Light
November Evenings in Vico Equense
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November 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
My latest Substack post presents images and ideas about the beauty of November light on the Bay of Naples. I invite you to take a look.
Water has this way of changing everything it touches. Sometimes it reveals details I’d otherwise miss; sometimes it hides them just enough to make the familiar feel a little mysterious.
#PhotographItaly #ColorAndPlace #AtHomeInTime #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #water #ItalyThroughTheLens
#PhotographItaly #ColorAndPlace #AtHomeInTime #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #water #ItalyThroughTheLens
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Water has this way of changing everything it touches. Sometimes it reveals details I’d otherwise miss; sometimes it hides them just enough to make the familiar feel a little mysterious.
#PhotographItaly #ColorAndPlace #AtHomeInTime #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #water #ItalyThroughTheLens
#PhotographItaly #ColorAndPlace #AtHomeInTime #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #water #ItalyThroughTheLens
When the Day Refuses to End
We’ve passed autumn’s solstice, so the days are growing longer bit by bit. My Substack post this week is about the glory of the Tuscan landscape in those languid days of June when the warm sun never seems to set.
We’ve passed autumn’s solstice, so the days are growing longer bit by bit. My Substack post this week is about the glory of the Tuscan landscape in those languid days of June when the warm sun never seems to set.
Where the Light Lingers
The season of long light-filled days in Tuscany's Val d’Orcia
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November 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
When the Day Refuses to End
We’ve passed autumn’s solstice, so the days are growing longer bit by bit. My Substack post this week is about the glory of the Tuscan landscape in those languid days of June when the warm sun never seems to set.
We’ve passed autumn’s solstice, so the days are growing longer bit by bit. My Substack post this week is about the glory of the Tuscan landscape in those languid days of June when the warm sun never seems to set.
Italian Yellows — Some colors seem to hold time itself. These ochres and golds soak in the day, releasing warmth long after the light has moved on.Color becomes a form of memory, a way of remembering the sun.
#PhotographItaly #ItalyPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #ItalyThroughTheLens
#PhotographItaly #ItalyPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #ItalyThroughTheLens
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Italian Yellows — Some colors seem to hold time itself. These ochres and golds soak in the day, releasing warmth long after the light has moved on.Color becomes a form of memory, a way of remembering the sun.
#PhotographItaly #ItalyPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #ItalyThroughTheLens
#PhotographItaly #ItalyPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #ItalyThroughTheLens
Amazing archeological find near Siena, Tuscany. The gifts the Etruscans give us, even 2 millennia later.
Archaeologists Find 24 Bronze Statues, Preserved in Tuscan Spa for 2,300 Years
The discovery provides insight into the transition from Etruscan to Roman rule
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November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Amazing archeological find near Siena, Tuscany. The gifts the Etruscans give us, even 2 millennia later.
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The Scale of Stone
My Substack post this week is about the way time, weather, and footsteps shape a staircase into a kind of record — each step both surface and story.
My Substack post this week is about the way time, weather, and footsteps shape a staircase into a kind of record — each step both surface and story.
The Scale of Stone
Italian stairs and the spaces between them
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November 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Scale of Stone
My Substack post this week is about the way time, weather, and footsteps shape a staircase into a kind of record — each step both surface and story.
My Substack post this week is about the way time, weather, and footsteps shape a staircase into a kind of record — each step both surface and story.
Sicily Blues
There’s the blue of the sea, and then there are the blues that become part of a place. Some days, everything seems to fall into rhythm — color, light, texture — and as I photograph, that harmony starts to hum a little louder.
#TravelPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive
There’s the blue of the sea, and then there are the blues that become part of a place. Some days, everything seems to fall into rhythm — color, light, texture — and as I photograph, that harmony starts to hum a little louder.
#TravelPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sicily Blues
There’s the blue of the sea, and then there are the blues that become part of a place. Some days, everything seems to fall into rhythm — color, light, texture — and as I photograph, that harmony starts to hum a little louder.
#TravelPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive
There’s the blue of the sea, and then there are the blues that become part of a place. Some days, everything seems to fall into rhythm — color, light, texture — and as I photograph, that harmony starts to hum a little louder.
#TravelPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive
My latest Substack post is the 5th in an occasional series of photographs from around my adopted hometown of Cortona, Tuscany combined with thoughts about place, light and season.
Cortona Passeggiata - Quinto
Photographs from my walks around Cortona, Tuscany (number 5)
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October 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
My latest Substack post is the 5th in an occasional series of photographs from around my adopted hometown of Cortona, Tuscany combined with thoughts about place, light and season.
Want to photograph in Italy? Here are 5 Essential Tips.
5 Essential Italy Photo Tips | Italy Photography Workshops with Jeff Curto
Here are the top 5 things that I've learned while leading photography workshop experiences some of Italy's most beautiful locations
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October 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Want to photograph in Italy? Here are 5 Essential Tips.
My latest Substack post, "Faces of Salt and Sun" is about fishmongers in Sicilian markets; men whose faces show lives of both hard work and pride. I hope you take a moment to look and perhaps subscribe to my Substack for weekly images and stories - free each week.
Faces of Salt and Sun
Portraits from Sicilian Fish Markets
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October 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
My latest Substack post, "Faces of Salt and Sun" is about fishmongers in Sicilian markets; men whose faces show lives of both hard work and pride. I hope you take a moment to look and perhaps subscribe to my Substack for weekly images and stories - free each week.
October 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM