If money was taken out of the equation, and I was given access to unlimited funds, I would still need little. I would place the lion’s share in the hands of those who could fight for civil equality. The rest I would use simply to travel and document those wanderings. Perhaps I paint …
David Walter Banks :: Posts
05.14.2012 by David Walter Banks
Caracas Travelogue
05.12.2012 by Luceo Images
DEADLINE EXTENDED: LUCEO Student Project Award
Maddie McGarvey Photo
We are excited to announce the Call for Entries for the 3rd edition of the LUCEO Student Project Award.
Central to LUCEO’s mission is our belief in the importance of long-term projects. We also understand that developing photographers need support. To advance both of these causes, LUCEO has created the LUCEO Student Project …
05.10.2012 by Luceo Images
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 at the LUCEO Image Archive.
This week we are featuring an archive image by David Walter Banks, taken …
04.26.2012 by David Walter Banks
Via Crucis in Petare
Given my obsession with The Fourth Wall, and our society’s interaction with altered theatrical realities, I was in heaven, so to speak, as I watched Jesus drag his cross through the barrio El Nazareno in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela. I was on visual overload as I watched the passionate reenactment unfold through this small corner …
04.24.2012 by Luceo Images
Proyecto Trocadero Workshop Student Work
Ambrosio Plaza
In the beginning of April, David Walter Banks and Kendrick Brinson traveled to Caracas, Venezuela for a four-day workshop, exhibition and lecture.
We hopped a flight to Caracas, Venezuela based on faith and hope. Not the religious kind, though we were headed to holy week. We had faith in our colleague Kevin …
04.23.2012 by David Walter Banks
Atlanta Untitled 4
I was recently speaking with a friend about his ideology and intent in shooting iPhone photographs. He told me that he looks at them less as photographs, and more as visual notes. For me, the same idea transcends to much of what I shoot, especially in the realm of street photography. Much of it …
David Walter Banks and Kendrick Brinson spent over a week in Caracas, Venezuela at RMTF, an amazing photography school run by teacher and photographer Roberto Mata. LUCEO’s Kevin German was the first of our members to have an exhibition, give a presentation and lead a workshop at the school in 2011 and Banks and …
04.19.2012 by David Walter Banks
Atlanta Untitled 3
Fragments, dislocations, scattered pieces of a puzzle. This is what makes up much of my personal photographic existence. Looking for the ties and glue that hold it together is where much of my personal introspective time is spent. I have two times of the day where I invite myself to be lost in a …
04.18.2012 by David Walter Banks
Atlanta: Parade
In my early days shooting at a newspaper, I used to hate shooting parades. I was always directed to shoot the main part of the event, and I saw them as this horrible jumbled mess exploding in bad light. I was a very clean and controlled shooter then who hated to shoot at mid-day, …
04.17.2012 by David Walter Banks
A LUCEO Collaboration: David Walter Banks
Plan for your best plan to change. That has become the mantra for one of my roles in LUCEO as project manager. As a company looking to ever-evolve, made up of content creators chasing ideas that are constantly morphing, we have no choice but to accept this mantra. That said, I still believe in …