As you may have been observing, the photographers of LUCEO Images have embarked on a series of blog columns in an effort to both further engage our readers as well as push ourselves towards personal and professional growth. My column, entitled ‘Transience’, was born from an attempt to push outside my comfort zone …
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01.21.2010 by Luceo Images
Opening Tonight: Luceo & MJR’s Group Show
Luceo is proud to announce our upcoming group show for one night only, featuring photographers from Luceo and our partners in crime at MJR. The show will feature a limited edition fine-art print publication that will be distributed to the first 200 attendees. Large-scale reproductions of the publication pages will be displayed on the …
01.20.2010 by David Walter Banks
On Display
One of my many goals for the upcoming year is to document my own life at a greater extent. I’ve always found that my periods of the greatest growth and development I’ve gone through as a photographer have directly coincided with this type of work. So, to that end, here’s a few images from …
01.08.2010 by David Walter Banks
The Breaking Point for The New York Times
This week I had the opportunity to continue working with New York Times reporter Kevin Sack on his current heartbreaking health care series. Kevin has continued to follow the closing of the dialysis unit at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. The free dialysis unit offered treatment to many undocumented immigrants who have nowhere else …
12.29.2009 by David Walter Banks
Photos of the Year
As I look back at the past year of my photographic life, I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. In this short time here on Earth, I’ve been given the rare opportunity to build a life around my passion. For this I will be eternally grateful and pray that I will never loose sight of such a …
12.17.2009 by David Walter Banks
Mexico: Odds and Ends
As I edited through and reflected upon images made in Latin America over the past year, I looked for exactly what it is that draws my heart to this region of the world. In a time where coverage of Mexico and Guatemala by the mass media is saturated with crime and despair, an amazing …
12.14.2009 by David Walter Banks
Mexico: Lucha Libre
I sit on one of the cheap plastic folding chairs in the front row, eating homemade potato chips covered in grease and hot-sauce sold by a young boy working the crowd, waiting for the main event. Eventually I place the bag of artery clogging concessions on the dirt floor beneath my feet, antsy for …
12.13.2009 by David Walter Banks
Resolve Blog: Future of Photo Books
Our friend Miki Johnson over at LiveBooks asked us to contribute to an open-sourced discussion on the Resolve Blog here. The idea of the discussion is based around the future of photo books in 10 years. I’m always interested in helping open the lines of communication in the photographic community so I’m happy to …
12.10.2009 by David Walter Banks
Mexico: Celebration in Death
Monsters invade the plaza near a massive colonial-era church, dancing and writhing to the robust sounds of the small marching band they follow through the streets of Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico. Costumed teenagers sing and dance on graves in the outskirts of town. Small dirt roads near cemeteries small and large throughout the region …
12.01.2009 by David Walter Banks
Mexico: Beginning at the End
I sit in the cold cement room, hands shaking as I try to lift the cup of coffee my host offered me before she left the room. Sitting in a state of dazed relief, I stare at the small shrine to the Virgin Mary lit by a solitary candle which serves as the room’s …