Hello! My name is Timothy Eugene Saccenti. It is lovely to make your acquaintince.

I got my first camera when I was 16 years old [Nikon F3].  In 2007 I directed my first motion piece.

Music has been a very important part of my life since I can remember first hearing it.  I grew up in the suburbs outside of New York City in the 80’s and was lucky enough to be influenced by the musical culture transmitted to there via Radio. My parents are both from New York so we could visit regularly, but most of my nights were spent lying on the floor of my bedroom in the dark listening to [New York City Based Urban Radio] KISS FM on my boombox.  This was the age of electro based hiphop, wildstyle breakdancing music, it was extremely futuristic and motivating. The first record I bought as a child was “Rockit” from Herbie Hancock.  It was an amazing time for music and that future–thinking aesthetic hasn’t left me since.  Music has always been a motivating factor in my life and through music I became a photographer.  I wanted to express what I saw when I heard the audio, almost in a synethesatic manner, seeing sounds.  However my drawing skills were not up to snuff.  Once I discovered I could get a machine to do the recording of the images, I was free to express myself, and the Idea of technology being a part of my communication fit in with the overall future-thinking ideals I grew up on.  

I was a child of early hip-hop, the first wave of home computers, Atari 2600, the invention of Techno music.  Technology wasn’t only just an ancillary aspect of your life, it was the lens through which experienced your life.  For school I moved to downtown New York City.  By being immersed in the audio arts realm, but having no inkling to make music myself, I came in contact with many musicians who became close friends in New York, which led to my first portrait commissions.  Up until this point my work was mainly experimental, Kirlian [electromagnetic photography], abstract still life and landscape.  Applying what I had developed in those fields to portraiture was a unique experience, and my first commercial images of people was for my friend Marcus Lambkin who had an amazing techno party at the time, he is now know as Shit Robot on the NYC based DFA record Label.