Angelo Merendino is a Cleveland, Ohio based editorial photographer most known for his photo-documentary The Battle We Didn’t Choose – My Wife’s Fight With Breast Cancer, a powerful and intimate body of work that chronicles Angelo's late wife Jennifer and their life together with breast cancer.
Angelo was born and raised in Akron, Ohio and he is the youngest of 11 children. In his youth Angelo was surrounded by music and emotion and he started playing the drums at the age of 6, spending the next 20 plus years performing music all over the country. While his passion for music brought him great satisfaction, Angelo often felt unable to fully communicate his innermost feelings from behind a drum set. Photography offered Angelo the voice he needed to express himself, and his curiosity and desire to look deep into his own existence has shaped Angelo's vision: To share what he believes is important - the simple moments in life we all feel, relate to, and can learn from.
Angelo's photographs have been exhibited at The Akron Art Museum, where 3 of his prints are part of the museum's permanent collection, in New York, Rome, Italy, and Oxford, England. Angelo contributes to Al Jazeera, Getty Images and Corbis Images, and his work has been shown in The New York Times, The Guardian, The USA Today, and on RollingStone.com, CNN.com and TheTodayShow.com.