MY INSPIRATION

David LaChapel was born in Connecticut in 1963 and attended high school at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Originally registered as a painter, David began experimenting with the medium of photography and developed an analog technique of hand-painting his negatives to achieve a superior color spectrum before processing his film.

At the age of 17, he moved to New York. David started working for Andy Warhol at Interview magazine. Through his mastery of color, unique composition and imaginative narratives, David began to expand the language of photography. His staged scene, portrait and still life works challenged traditional photographic devices and his work quickly gained international interest.
In the decades since, LaChapelle has become one of the world's most celebrated photographers with an anthology of books, including LaChapelle Land (1996), Hotel LaChapelle (1999), Heaven to Hell (2006), Lost & Found, and Good News (2017). . At the same time, his work expanded to music videos, films and stage. His 2005 feature film, Rize, was released in 17 countries. Many of his stills and film works have become iconic archetypes of 21st century America.

For the past 30 years, LaChapelle has exhibited worldwide in galleries and museums, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, Monet de Paris, Barbican Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Musée d'Orsay, Groninger Museum, Palazzo delle. Esposizioni, and the US National Portrait Gallery.