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George is a Boston native with an adventurous spirit and a love of the arts. Influence by his mother’s passion for the arts and armed with his father’s old camera, his path was set at a young age whether he realized it or not.
Recognizing his passion for photography, his father bought him his first camera at 16 and sent him off on a trip with his grandfather to visit the family farm in Italy. Thirty days and thirty rolls of film later, much to his father’s dismay, he was hooked.
While working as a molding technician in a manufacturing plant, George completed an Associate’s degree in Electro Mechanical Engineering and then began working on his Bachelor’s in Plastics Engineering but it was his passion for photography that ultimately won him over. He left school and continued working fulltime days in manufacturing while completing night classes at New England School of Photography in Boston at night.
Originally working with film, George was a wedding and event photographer and from time to time got to bump shoulders with some infamous Boston names.
Some of his earliest passions was the work he did to documented his love for New England through stock photography.
His clientele expanded to included Universal Studios, On-Star, the Washington Post and Bostonian Magazine, however it was his first publication in Cape Cod Life that inspired him to start his ASA Photographic in 1996.
Connected through his mother’s career as a costume designer he started to document a limited number of theater productions. Though technically challenging, George continued to learn how to improve his theater imagery on film by utilizing special shooting and film processing techniques. With high upfront costs, slow turnaround times, quality limitations and limited means in which to make and sell product, live theater photography was a tough nut to crack as a business but, a revolution was coming that would change everything…
The advent of digital cameras rocked the photography world and in 2001 George went all in for his first digital camera the Nikon D1x. This era changed ALL the rules and empowered him to make theater photography his unique niche. With the power of digital and the internet at hand, it was now possible to photography a show, process it, create product, post it and be live for purchasing all within a day's time. Today, ASA Photographic remains as one of the prominent theater photographers in Massachusetts serving over 20 Boston area schools ranging from middle school to college from the North shore to the Cape. He also serves as the official photographer for the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild.
As a video geek of the 80’s, the cross-over of digital SLRs into the video world in the 2010’s allowed him to expand upon his video documentation work using the same tools he already had in hand for photography. Bringing all his skill sets together, he has documenting events up and down the East coast.
George, along with his wife Gail, found a home for ASA in 2008 at the Faulkner Mills and in 2016 broke out a new brand in “Lucozzi Portraits” specializing in select High School portrait session, Families and Corporate portraiture. They both have has served on the board for the Professional Photographers Association for Massachusetts (PPAM) since 2008 and were the honored recipients of the Professional Photographers of America’s prestigious National Award in 2016.
Drones where the next big step for the business and though first starting to work with them back in 2016, he finally obtained his drone pilots license in 2024 which added a new dynamic element to his event coverage work.
“I like obtaining new knowledge almost as much as I love sharing it.” George L.
