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Anthony Herfort grew up in Williamsport, PA. He attended Antonelli Institute, outside Philadelphia, earning an Associate Degree in Commercial Photography. In 1998 he moved to Washington, DC and began the Fine Art Photography program at the Corcoran College of Art & Design, graduating with a BFA in 2002. While attending the Corcoran Anthony interned with Jason Horowitz. Herfort received the Corcoran Alumni Association Martin Chambi Award for Excellence in Photography in 2002 and placed Fourth in Photographers Forum 22nd College Photo Contest.
His work was published in Photographers Forum in 2002. He exhibited in popup galleries in 2002 & 2003, participated in Artomatic in 2008 & 2009. Anthony currently resides in Washington, DC, assists Commercial Photographers on shoots and with digital work, teaches photography, and provides consulting services to businesses in the photographic industry.
Anthony has been passionate about photography since high school. He first entered a darkroom around 1993 in Williamsport, PA, where his parents still live. When it was time to look at colleges he decided to look specifically at art schools with photography programs and ended up at Antonelli Institute, a two year commercial art school just outside Philadelphia. Although he enjoyed making portraits and working in a studio, Anthony realized that his true interests were in the Fine Arts, so after graduating he ended up at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, DC.
Anthony still lives and works in DC, assisting other photographers and shooting personal work. His main interests are in history and traveling. Although the majority of the work shot in recent years has been digital, film is still used from time to time. Anthony’s interest in shooting film has been revived and stimulated by joining the SilverCore collective, and by finding sources of more rare film, such as 110 slide film.
I was born and raised in Williamsport, a one-time “lumber capital of the world”, and the birthplace of Little League baseball. Having been exposed to the proud history of this city on the west branch of the Susquehanna and the homes of deceased historical figures on family vacations left a profound impression on me. I was unsatisfied with sanitized stories told on historical tours, the sterile preservation of founding fathers’ favorite rooms and the velvet rope separating me from them.
As I became interested in photography, I realized that I was documenting my own history and began looking for places and objects that told their own stories. I continue to shoot the places that are comfortable to me and the objects that I stumble across while in those places. I look for discarded items, abandoned buildings, and forgotten monuments. Through photography I am able to preserve my subjects in the state that I find them, and allow them to remain where they are, to continue age and build a patina.
Although I have adopted digital techniques for many things through the years, I still think analog photography has its place. I appreciate the aesthetics of analog photography; there is a big difference between images composed of pixels as opposed to those composed of film grain. Manufacturers continue to produce beautiful films in many formats and a wide variety of chemistry. Although many effects achieved by analog photography can be replicated by digital, there is a more tactile, craft-driven feel to analog methods. The uncertainty of experimentation is lost in digital; there is no “Undo” in chemical processes, if you make a mistake, it may not be recoverable. This is one of the many things that keeps me interested.
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