Artist of the day

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Artist of the Day, February 7, 2026 : David LaChapelle, an American photographer, music video director, and film director.

David LaChapelle (1963) is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, and film director. He was born in Connecticut and attended high school at North Carolina School of The Arts. Originally enrolled as a painter, he developed an analogue technique by hand-painting his own negatives to achieve a sublime spectrum of color before processing his film.

At age seventeen, LaChapelle moved to New York City. Following his first photography show at Gallery 303, he was hired by Andy Warhol to work at Interview Magazine.

Through his mastery of color, unique composition, and imaginative narratives, LaChapelle began to expand the genre of photography. His staged tableau, portrait and still life works challenged devices of traditional photography and his work quickly gained international interest. By 1997, The New York Times predicted, “LaChapelle is certain to influence the work of a new generation...in the same way that Mr. Avedon pioneered so much of what is familiar today.”

In the decades since, LaChapelle has become one of the most published photographers throughout the world with an anthology of books including LaChapelle Land (1996), Hotel LaChapelle (1999), Heaven to Hell (2006), Lost & Found (2017), and Good News (2017). Simultaneously, his work has expanded into music video, film and stage projects. His 2005 feature film Rize was released theatrically in 17 countries. Many of his still and film works have become iconic archetypes of America in the 21st Century.

LaChapelle has photographed some of the most recognizable figures in film, music, art, politics and sports'

In the fall of 2023, LaChapelle was honored with the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Lifetime Achievement Award at the XIV Florence Biennale.

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David LaChapelle

Andy Warhol: Last Sitting, 1986

East Village Morning, 1995

Drew Barrymore: A Waitress, 1995

Leondardo Di Caprio: Unspoiled, 1996

Chanel on Ice, Oregon, Paris Vogue, 1997

Uma Thurman: Gossip, 1997

Eminem; About to Blow, 1999

Britney Spears: NYC Street Scene, 2000

Death by Hamburger, 2001

As the world turned, 2002

But Honeyed Looks Betray, 2002

Amanda As Andy Warhol's Liz Taylor, 2003

Amanda As Andy Warhol's Marilyn, 2003

Anointing, 2003 from Jesus Is My Homeboy Series

Evidence of a Miraculous Event, 2003 from Jesus Is My Homeboy Series

Intercession, 2003 from Jesus Is My Homeboy Series

Last Supper, 2003 from Jesus Is My Homeboy Series

Loaves & Fishes, 2003 from Jesus Is My Homeboy Series

Sermon, 2003 from Jesus Is My Homeboy Series

Young girls with a dinosaur, 2004

Most Perfect Work II (Kehinde Wiley), 2005

The House At The End Of The World, 2005

I'm your Piñata, 2006

Rihanna: Where Have You Been?, 2007

Archangel Michael: And no Message Could Have Been Any Clearer, 2009

Pamela Anderson: He Aimed the Arrows of Love that Puncture My Aching Heart,

2010

A new world, 2017

Behold, 2017

Graceful Planet, 2017

Kenzo Kenzotopia, 2019

The Holy Family with St. Francis, 2019

Elton John: Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour

Pink Biggie

Friday, January 30, 2026

Artist of the Day, January 30, 2026 : Antonio Turok, a Mexican photographer (#2473) [documentary]

For three decades, photographer Antonio Turok has traveled through his native Mexico and Central America, capturing images that speak of the human condition in places like Nicaragua and the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Antonio Turok (1955) was born in Mexico City. At the age of seventeen he arrived in Chiapas, where he lived twenty-five years and began his photographic career. He was a correspondent in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980’s. He was the first photographer to account for the Zapatista uprising, and later, in Oaxaca, he photographed the movement of the APPO. He was in New York on September 11, 2001 and has taken pictures of Mexicans in the United States and the Midwestern industrial crisis.

He recently documented the protest demonstrations in the presidential takeover of Donald Trump. He has collaborated in different publications such as Aperture, Camera Work, Crónica, La Jornada, Double Take, Paris Match, Le monde, Stern, The Independent and Proceso. His work is included in several collective books, as well as in collections from various museums and private collections. He has published the books Images of Nicaragua (1988) and Chiapas: The End of Silence / The End of Silence (Era/Aperture 1998). He obtained the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Award in 1994, and has received scholarships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Mexico/U.S. Culture Trust. In 2018 he obtained the Medal of Photographic Merit awarded by the Photo Library of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. He is considered one of the most important documentary photographers of our time.

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