

David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle
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David LaChapelle is known internationally as a photographer, a director of documentaries, and a video artist whose colorful, smooth and extroverted style is filled with sensuality, fantasy, and dark adventure, packed with accessible popular images, and communicates with a wide and variegated audience.

'I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word'
David LaChapelle
His work has been described as satirical, outrageous, bizarre and surrealist. An editor of Interview, Ingrid Sischy described that LaChapelle's photography is idiosyncratic and strong because it has humor, and it suggests how much he is politically and socially aware of his surroundings.



'I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.'
David LaChapelle