Photography is something I do every day like eating and sleeping. Sometimes it sustains me. At other times it wears on my body. It mostly wears on me.
exhibitions
Hunting and Recreation, MFA Gallery, 1395 René-Levesque Blvd. W., Montreal, H3G 2M5, May 9 - May 14, 2023.
Italian Montréal, March 2021 – January 2022, Pointe-a-Callière Museum, Montreal, Canada.
L'édition comme finalité, Les Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, curated by Serge Allaire, September 11 - October 10, 2021.
Maureen VI, A Decentralized Exhibition and Publication, MFASASA, Concordia University, July 15 - August 1, 2021.
Points of View: A National Human Rights Photography Exhibition (Curator: Jeremy Maron), Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Winnipeg, Canada, 2017.
Future Perfect, Yellow Fish Art Gallery, Montréal, Canada, 2014.
Conditions of work, MayWorks, May 17, 2014. In collaboration with the Immigrant Workers Centre, CEDA, 2515 Rue Delisle, Montréal.
Cantina, Italian Week, National Congress of Italian Canadians, at Casa D’italia, August 9-18, 2013. 505 Jean-Talon Street East, Montréal.
Cantina, Casa d’Italia, Vendemmia Exposition, October 20-21. 2012. 505, Jean-Talon Street East, Montréal.
Simulacra, Galerie Nota Bene, June 27 to July 15, 2011. 3416 ave. du parc, Montréal.
In Between Spaces, VAV Gallery, November 29 – December 9, 2010. René Levesque W., Montréal.
publications / press
Comité pour les droits humains en Amérique latine CDHAL, video production including pictures from series “7 migrants,” 2022.
Campaign for regularization of migrants, including pictures from series “7 migrants.” Amnistie internationale Canada francophone, 2021.
F-Stop Magazine group exhibition, pictures from the series "you and me," June 2020 issue, www.fstopmagazine.com.
Célébrons 5 années d’Art et des Luttes de.s Travailleurs.es Im/migrant.e.s!!! Immigrant Workers Artist Bloc, Immigrant Workers Centre, June, Montreal, Canada, 2018.
¿Tiene el tema de la inmigración toda la atención que merece? Pulso Newspaper, September, 2018.
Points of View: A National Human Rights Photography Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue by Maron, J., June 23, 2017 - February 4, 2018, Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Winnipeg, Canada.
FotoEvidence, FotoWitness Stories, “Conditions of Worth” by Luigi Pastò, September 2017, www.FotoEvidence.com.
A Exhibirse Fotos de Dos Trabajadores Guatemaltecos, Diario Tijuana, May 16, 2017, Tijuana, Mexico.
Luigi Pastò part of Human Rights Photography Exhibition, Milton Reporter, May 16, 2017. Milton, Ontario.
Conditions of Worth: The Experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers. Social Documentary Network (SDN), Spotlight, No. 174, June 2017.
"Trabajadores temporales latinoamericanos en el Museo canadiense de derechos humanos," Radio Canada International, March 23, 2017. (http://www.rcinet.ca/es/2017/05/23/trabajadores-temporales-latinoamericanos-en-el-museo-canadiense-de-derechos-humanos/)
"Retratos de la Migracion," Prensa Libre Newspaper, 19, 2017, Guatemala.
"Ferrea Oposicion a comercializacion de Radio Cedntre-Ville," Pulso Newspaper, April 2017, number 37.
"Tomatazo juridico," Pulso Newspaper, April 2015, number 19.
"A kind of "super-stress": The experiences of a temporary agency worker," la voix des migrant(e)s, November 30, 2014
"Quebec migrant workers organize to push back against racist policies, corrupt employers," The Guardian Newspaper, , Summer/fall, 2014.
"The Quebec Immigrant Workers Centre Experience: Fighting Precarity," Canadian Dimension, volume 48, number 3, 29-32, 2014.
"le loro cantine," Panoram Italia Magazine, volume 8, number 3, 20-22, 2014.
"Body Shop," Silvershotz: The International Journal of Contemporary Photography, volume 7, edition 3, 66 - 77, 2011.
collections
Bessner, Gallay, Kreisman: Accounting, Consultation and Finance, Montréal, Canada.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Winnipeg, Canada.
Centre culturel de la Petite Italie Casa d'Italia, Montréal, Canada.
Private collection, Toronto, Canada.
education
BFA (2020), MFA (2023) Studio Arts (photography), Concordia University, Montreal.