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Paige De Ponte is an award winning filmmaker, writer, producer, photographer and publisher. She is one of the 3 founding partners of TheWorks gallery.

At 29, a single mother of two, she packed herself and family off to Italy to pursue her dream of photography. She worked in Paris at Elle Studios alongside such greats as Jean Louis Sieff and Patrick Demarchelier who mentored and inspired her to shoot in black-and-white.

“…one of the most exciting new visual artists of the twenty-first century”. Michael Eric Stein, Columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Films in Review.

In 1996, Paige moved to New York and was published in over 200 fashion editorials and campaigns. She founded GIAI (GLOBAL ART IN ACTION), in the hope of inspiring awareness and change on critical world issues and in 2000, her first project was released. ‘Journey Into Vanishing Worlds’ is a fine art photography book consisting of 244 toned images shot in eight bio-diverse areas in danger of irreversible destruction. GAIA donated the proceeds from the book to Conservation International’s ‘Campaign To Save The Hotspots’. A second book, ‘Song of the Vanishing Tribe’ won a publishing award from the Publisher Marketing Association and was nominated for the prestigious Nautilus Award. Paige donated books and proceeds from this work to the areas and tribes photographed.

Paige's editions hang in some of the worlds largest and most valuable art collections; The Niarchos Collection (one of her elephant prints hangs in the Greek shipping magnet's family home in NYC), The Buhl Collection and the Nicklas Collection. Henry Buhl and Brent Niklas are both members of museum boards in New York and the infamous Boston University Library collection.

Paige wrote, directed and produced two documentaries in Africa including the award-winning ‘Xai Xai, Voice of Our Ancestors’. She continues her charity work and sits on the board of FM World Charities saying “I have always felt that my talent and experiences have a higher purpose, film offers the maximum medium and exposure. I want people to be riveted in the theatre, have an overall experience, visual, emotional, physical and spiritual. I want them to walk out feeling they got more then they expected.”

Today Paige is in preproduction on her first theatrical feature film to be released in 2011.