Daniel Centofanti is a student of the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
This work depicts a family owned company where my grandfather and father have worked and where my brothers and I have spent summers working. It is part of a larger series of works documenting steel fabrication labor.
In the summer of 2010, I happened to meet the daughter of the man whose family owns the factory. Through our conversations, I learned that her father was planning on retiring. Months later, he announced to the company that he was moving to Florida to work in sales. Shortly after that the company announced that it was now majority owned by an investment firm and that they would then be selling the company after 5 years.
Through this series, I have given the workers a chance to articulate their frustrations and concerns about the changes happening. I have also photographed the structures in detail ,the physical and visceral changes that are happening at the company thus exploring issues that I confront on a daily basis, be it searching for jobs to be able to pay rent or to pay off my student loan debt. Through this work, I reinstate the value of the human labor.
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Paris Photo Los Angeles 2015
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1st to 3rd May, 2015
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