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"Scoppettone possesses more charisma than a cult leader, fiery brown eyes, and a big smile" - Metro News, May 2001

About Dina Scoppettone

As an ocular centrist, a trained academic, and a former award winning fashion model, making pictures is an obsession that Dina Scoppettone intends to feed as long as she lives. The vibrant nature of her work at once evokes the glamour of Mario Testino, Annie Liebowitz, and Helmut Newton, while expressing a nascent understanding of contrast in visual composition which is all her own.

For seven years, Scoppettone practiced deconstructing images. Now, she makes them, actively composing and capturing fashion and portrait photography in digital format. Hailing from Greater Silicon Valley, Scoppettone is tuned into the latest trends in digital imaging technology, which she credits for the 30,000+ photographs she’s made since her debut four years ago in the wet and colorful Limahuli rainforest on the North Shore of Kauai.

Before completely turning to the camera, Scoppettone conceived and produced a cultural project with the Cuban Government, attracting one hundred renowned international artists to paint on a 20 x 30 foot canvas in the center of Havana for the opening of the 2000 Havana Biennial. The resulting mural was a breathtaking perspective on the turn of the century in post-revolutionary Cuba. This production was the climax of her Master’s degree in Modern Visual Culture which she earned from the University of London’s esteemed Courtauld Institute.

In an effort to build a foundation of historical reference, Scoppettone received a B.A. in Art History from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spending most of her time studying abroad in European universities, libraries, museums, castles, abbeys, archives, discothèques, and sporting arenas. Accordingly, Scoppettone speaks several languages fluently and has first hand knowledge of many uncharted set locations throughout Western and Central Europe.

Based in the California Bay Area, Scoppettone has a studio in her home at Sunset Beach and in the Santa Cruz Mountains at the former estate of Alfred Hitchcock, another ocular centrist. With a penchant for location work, Scoppettone travels easily and often.