Philip Scalia
21 Prospect Street
Fort Plain, NY 13339
518-993-2152 land
518-844-3372 cell
phisca@gmail.com

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Bio:
Phil spent his childhood in the Panama Canal Zone. While in high school in Baltimore he bought a 1932 Leica in a pawn shop and learned to photograph for his yearbook. He kicked around the country working as a Good Humor Man, carny, tugboat cook, hod carrier, apprentice plumber, finally hiring on as a locomotive engineer, running freight trains between Virginia and New Jersey. His chap book Firing (1981) documented the streets of Baltimore, rural areas of southern Pennsylvania, and life on the railroad. He took severance from the railroad in 1983 to devote his life to photography. He became a staff photographer for a chain of newspapers in New Hampshire. He received a 1988 grant from the State Council on the Arts for a collection of ambiguous social photographs. Scalia opened a commercial studio in the Odd Fellows Hall in Exeter. He hung poetry in his Palladian windows, hosted performance art and readings in the spacious hall. At the same time he restored an isolated cabin on nearby Great Bay. It was here that he photographed Understory, mystical reveries from the New Hampshire woods that landed him many shows, and praise from artists. Phil currently resides in the Mohawk Valley of New York, a short walk from the Erie Canal.

Recent Publication Credits:
Elle Decor Magazine, March 2010, Elle Decor Goes To Baltimore
The Mohawk, David C. King, 2010
The Industrial Revolution, publ. Heinemann-Raintree, 2010
Frommers New York City 2010
Maryland, publ. Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2009 - cover photo
Delaware, publ. Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2009
Frommer's New York State 2009 - cover photo
All Around New York, publ. Heinemann-Raintree, 2009
A Hundred Miles on the Erie Canal, in the Atlantic Monthly, October 2009, Rachel Dickinson
The Erie Canal, Lisa Bullard
Complete First Certificate Student's Book With Answers, Guy Brook-Hart
Macroeconomics, Roger A. Arnold
Amazing and Unusual USA, Jeff Bahr
New York Yesterday and Today, Meg Schneider
Joseph Brant and his World, James Paxton
Peru (Eyewitness Travel Guide)
The Huron, David C. King, 2007
Fodor's Peru, 3rd Edition
Where To Go When: The Americas, Joseph Rosendo
Fodor's Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, 11th Edition
Fodor's New England, 28th Edition
Frommer's 24 Great Walks in New York, Michelle and James Nevius
Drugs and Society, Glen Hanson
New York Washington DC and the Mid-Atlantic Trips (Regional Guide), Karlin and Otis
Unexplained: An Encyclopedia of Curious Phenomena, Strange Superstitions and Ancient Mysteries, Judy Allen
The Rough Guide to New England 4, Ken Derry et al
Criminalistics: Forensic Science and Crime, James Girard
Handbook of World Religions, Len Woods
Visualizing Earth History, Loren Babcock
Seven Wonders of Ancient North America, 2008, Michael Woods
Under The Legislature of the Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets, Mark Decarteret
Floods, Mary Winget
Mansa Musa Leader of Mali, Lisa Zamorsky