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Pellegatta says, “While I was doing that I went to Baltimore one weekend. I went to visit a couple guys who lived in Remington, Md. It was 1985, but it felt like going back to the 50’s.”
“Probably the newest car on the block was a ‘65 Chevy. The whole block was related, just a little Italian enclave. I was so taken away by what that place felt like.”
“I borrowed a camera from a woman I was dating and went back a couple weeks later to photograph.”
“When I got the film back, what I was seeing and feeling came across in the film. I was kind of surprised. I hadn’t had any experience with a camera.”
“I just started taking pictures and curiosity became an obsession and the obsession became a passion. Now, 15 years later, I’m still a photographer.”
“And I don’t own a camera.”
Three gifts become
tools of the trade
The camera Pellegatta borrowed to photograph Remington, Md. was lent to him by his girlfriend at the time. She told him to go ahead and use it.
Pellegatta remembers saying to her, “If you ever want it back, I’ll give it to you.”
But she moved to Paris, France and he never saw her again.
The next camera, a Canon EOS, came into Pellegatta’s life by way of a customer, Bob Nailer.
Nailer came into Pellegatta’s gallery with a camera bag and said, “This stuff has been under my bed for six months. I’ve been so frustrated trying to take pictures like you do.”
And he gave the bag and equipment to the photographer.
The third camera came from a woman in Rappahannock County who had purchased a Canon F-5.
Pellegatta says, “It was too much camera for her. She never learned how to use it. I asked her about the camera. She said, I’ll bring it to you. You can learn how to use it. And then she said, just keep it.”
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