I spent a day and a half in Vegas shooting for my project and had a blast despite the suffocating heat. I believe I’ll end up going back to focus solely on the seediness and greediness, but just kinda wandered around with my eyes wide open this time around. With a motto like, ‘What happens [...]
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08.31.2010 by David Walter Banks
Zoltan Mesko for The Wall Street Journal
I recently photographed New England Patriots’ punter Zoltan Mesko at the Atlanta Falcons’ practice field in Flowery Branch, Ga. for The Wall Street Journal. The Romanian born kicker went to the Patriots in the fifth round, with the 150th selection after a 5-year college career at the University of Michigan where he graduated with a [...]
08.26.2010 by David Walter Banks
From the Archive
From the Archive is a regular column that features one image from our archive and appears every Thursday. LUCEO Images has a thorough group archive (keyword search bar, top right) and it can be found here.
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Rally attendees overflow onto the hillsides at the ‘Showdown in Searchlight’, a conservative [...]
I recently shot a quick portrait shoot for USN&WR that gave me a whole new appreciation of my lack of student loan debt. I photographed Powder Springs, Ga. resident La’Nita Johnson at Woodward Academy where she recently graduated. She and her family will be responsible for about $32K of the annual $52K total cost for [...]
08.20.2010 by David Walter Banks
The Fourth Wall: Ireland
I recently had the good fortune of taking my exploration of of fictional worlds to Ireland while traveling through the country. You can check out an essay of other images from the trip here. The innate desire we have to take part in these constructed alter-realities is undoubtedly a worldwide phenomenon, and I hope to [...]
08.19.2010 by David Walter Banks
Vegas Outtakes
While on the topic of outtakes, here’s some from a recent trip to Las Vegas to shoot for my new project, The Fourth Wall. My wandering eye always gets sidetracked by visual stimuli unrelated to the shoot I’m on. I’m working at training myself to ignore all the little distractions and focus on the subject [...]
08.17.2010 by David Walter Banks
Ireland Outtakes
I try to remember that it’s not the big milestones that make up a lifetime, but all the moments in between. For me, photography is the same way, and although most the images I shoot on a day-to-day basis are not destined for a large body of work, they are precious to me nonetheless. They [...]
08.16.2010 by David Walter Banks
Tom Douglas for The Wall Street Journal
Every once in a while I’m given a needed reminder of why I love documentary photography outside of creating images. It’s the experiences I’m blessed with. We are given this opportunity to glance into a stranger’s life and share an intimate, if not fleeting, moment. I was reminded of this once again when I traveled [...]
08.06.2010 by David Walter Banks
Real Love, Not Fade Away
My love in her red dress at our temporary humble abode in Kilfenora, County Clare, Ireland, shot on SX-70 FadeToBlack film. The chemistry on the film began to fade after only a few fleeting moments, but I pray my love and memories never will.
08.03.2010 by David Walter Banks
Front Page of The New York Times
I love my job even when it sucks. I really do mean that in the most sincere of ways. Every time a small spell of monotony seems to set in, this photographic life is sure to throw you a curve ball, even when you least expect it. They say that one of the ways to [...]