Last year Atlanta food critic Bill Addison and I went to a handful of religious ceremonies that involved food. It was a religious learning experience for me and at the last stop I developed a love (or should I say craving?) for kenafeh.
The second shoot, which is the first to run and can be …
We asked you all to send us personal photos in January to be a part of LUCEO’s annual New York City exhibition at 25CPW. Well, thank you for the beautiful personal stories that accompanied so many beautiful images.
Also thank you to AdoramaPix for kindly printing the images you sent to us.
Thank you to everyone …
The first time LUCEO went to New York City to meet with editors with our books, editors were shocked that we wanted to come in as a group and were even more shocked when we gathered around a table promoting each other. I could explain the thesis to Kevin German’s long-term project on Vietnam …
David Walter Banks and Kendrick Brinson will be speaking at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, March 12, 2012. They will be speaking to a class about the business of photography and how LUCEO works as a cooperative. Then, in a talk open to the public, they will talk about how LUCEO came …
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 at the LUCEO Image Archive.
This week we are featuring an archive image taken by Kendrick Brinson on a trip …
It’s not easy being friends with an editorial photographer, let alone a pair of them. I travel often, I miss important events and milestones. So does David.
My best friend got married last year and the first phone call was to see which weekend I would be able to attend so she could set her …
Terry Williams has three children, Julia Deans, 26, who went to Hampton University, Mariah Deans, 22, who is at Vanderbilt on a scholarship, and Kramer Deans, 20, who goes to Belmont University. The high cost of college tuition leaves countless Americans in debt.
“It’s a privilege to go to college,” Terry said in her Decatur, …
Some images from my wanderings in Memphis.
The house below with the boarded up windows was Aretha Franklin’s. When I toured the Stax Records museum, I learned that so many famous soul musicians all grew up within a couple blocks of each other–Aretha Franklin, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones, Memphis Slim, and others were all …
While I was in Memphis on my second trip, I noticed that singer Taylor Swift had a show at the downtown arena. I decided I’d wander over and even before I did, I noticed little blonde girls swarming the town in dresses and cowboy boots in flocks, which was certainly a different crowd than …
I’m catching up on blogging now that I’m back in the office after a month and a half of shoots and meetings and an incredible LUCEO exhibition. I’ve got a couple more posts from my time in Memphis to share as I plot a trip back.
Beale Street is Memphis’ Bourbon Street. It has its …
