Interview: Leigh Bongiorno And The Importance Of Portraits In Our Digital Age

In our digital age, we are surrounded with more and more faces than ever. Every social media you open will instantly project selfies and pictures of people, friends or strangers in front of your eyes. But, unfortunately, we are also living in an age where we avoid looking at other human beings in the streets we’re walking everyday. Empathy is what makes us human, beautiful. So we need to take time to stop and learn to look at others again. And Art is a good training, a good way to open our eyes, our ears and our hearts again to the many stories that are building humanity. We recently wrote about the photorealistic paintings of Leigh Bongiorno. Their heartwarming power pushed us to talk with the American artist about the gorgeous crowd that lives under … Continue reading Interview: Leigh Bongiorno And The Importance Of Portraits In Our Digital Age