 Creating Your Vision Photography Workshop
David Lee Black Studios The Aloft Providence Hotel 191 Dorrance Street Providence, Rhode Island Nov 20, 2022, 11-1 pm Meet and greet at 10:30 am Cost: $50 Details: This uniquely experiential event is in an ongoing series of wonderful workshops. Together we are growing a community of supportive and talented artists of all skill levels who connect through photography and a love of art. Creating Your Vision involves unique models interacting with the art of a unique space, often world-class art galleries. For this event, we are thrilled to be returning to the Aloft Providence Hotel! This innovative, untraditional atmosphere, perfectly placed within the Providence Innovation and Design District along the Providence River has gorgeous light and a funky stylish interior and courtyard. We will begin at Aloft and then walk across the street to the Providence Pedestrian Bridge with commanding views of downtown Providence and beyond! For this workshop, we are excited to have professional models Micaiah Castro, Cheri White, Destiny Manston and other special guests sporting their exquisite sexy edgy-cool and elegant attire with a PINK theme to celebrate Aloft's 1 year anniversary! Is there a color out there that’s more fun and festive than pink? It may traditionally symbolize femininity, but there’s certainly more to it than that, and people of any gender can enjoy this happy color. The color pink is also associated with love and romance, joy, and creativity, and it is considered to have a calming effect on those who see it. So what better backdrop for a photoshoot than pink at the Aloft Downtown Providence hotel with three professional models and YOU and your creativity! Participants will be instructed on composition, lighting, technical details and creating their own vision in a storytelling way. This event is open to all regardless of ability or camera gear. Even a camera phone is fine. Free instructional handouts and refreshments are provided. There will also be plenty of helpful guidance and suggestions to enhance your passion for artful photography. Feel free to invite your friends, and family or share this invite! What to bring: Camera Your creativity and open mind Cost: $50 (cash, check, Venmo, Paypal) I was not made to be subtle. . . . #blackandwhite #photography#portrait #blackandwhitephotography #photomodels #rsa_bnw #blackandwhite_photos #blackandwhitehumansphotos #bwstyle #modeling #bnwdrama#modelife #style #fashion #bnw_ecstasy #davidleeblack#bnwsouls #bnwmood
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 I thought would share what the man who purchased “A Note Unsaid” shared about why he bought the piece:
“I sat in front of this work of art right after losing my father, grandmother and then my mother. Not to mention sitting in that chair right after my brain surgery trying to wrap my mind around what happened over the past couple of years. The Empty Irish home, one chair and violin spoke to me. Our Irish home would now be one chair short for some of us. The music would stop and never be the same. But in that loneliness and heartache I saw beauty. A reminder to everyone who may be left alone or have that empty chair at Thanksgiving that there is beauty in the pain. This will now hang in my home this Thanksgiving as a reminder of that Irish home we hold near and dear despite that empty chair.” . . . “A Note Unsaid” “Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” ~Langston Hughes I have sat in this living room on countless occasions playing music, laughing, conversing, crying, eating, working but mostly quietly thinking about how fortunate I am to be sitting in an Irish farmhouse like this in beloved County Clare.  I’m honored that one of my first landscape photographs, “Two Trees” has been accepted into “The Landscape Exhibition” by juror, John Paul Caponigro.
Alex Ferrone Gallery 25425 Main Road Cutchogue, New York Dates: November 26 - January 17, 2023 Opening reception: November 26, 5-7 pm http://www.alexferronegallery.com  She was rare, like examples of emotional self-regulation on social media.  She was rare, like examples of emotional self-regulation on social media.
. . . . (From the Water Series)  A Room of One’s Own
. . . . #blackandwhite #photography #portrait #blackandwhitephotography #photomodels #blackandwhite_photos #blackandwhitehumansphotos #davidleeblack #bwstyle #portraitphotography #modeling #bnwdrama# modelife #bnw_ecstasy #bnwsouls #portraitsmf #bnwmood #bedifferent #thegraduateseries  Model and professional cellist Morgan Santos takes flight during a spontaneous shoot at a wine tasting.
 “Nearly Midnight” hanging with a cool cat at the Heartspot Art Gallery in East Providence, Rhode Island.
Pic by Christopher Mathews  I am very honored to have a mention in Amanda Quay Blount's spectacular book of the history of the Biltmore Hotel in Providence Rhode Island, "Meet Me At The Biltmore!
Signed copy in hand, the opening reception and writer's talk was as special as the book! Meet Me At the Biltmore” Amanda Quay Blount Page 290 “After the hotel re-opened in 2021, it selected its first official artist in residence, Photographer, Musician, and Sculpture named David Lee Black. Conjuring creative energy in the confines of the Biltmore lobby level gallery, Black drew upon the seemingly galactic energy that fills every crevice in the curve of the hotel’s architecture. Add a gallery opening, just weeks before the centennial anniversary of the hotel, Black transformed the hotel’s historic Garden Room into the backdrop for a grand spectacle, a paradoxical masterpiece of old and new. Lining the towering walls were Black’s photographs and sculptures, a carefully curated mixture of haunting and whimsy. The stoic easels, though the obvious centerpieces of the show, we’re nearly lost in the background to the pounding soundtrack of the Providence Drum Troupe, followed by stomping circus performers and cheering acrobats, all of which exploded into the room mid-evening. A woman on 4-foot stilts shimmied by the bar, while a flailing oversized Martian-like creature stumbled around, seemingly mesmerized by the saxophone player. Black’s friends and guests were just as much a part of the exhibit as his photographs, and they did not disappoint. Rather than make a mockery of the historical significance of the Garden Room, The circus that unfolded seemed to leap from the walls themselves, and unleashing of the hotel secrets that yearned to be set free. If the Biltmore‘s walls could talk, they would speak the language of David Lee Black and his band of merry makers. Black’s Sweet Dreams Society event was perfectly Biltmore in every way. It was scandalous, it was salacious, it was loud. But at the same time, it was merriment and joy in its most simple iteration. Much like the exquisite architectural genius of the hotel, the spectacle of Black’s event could easily be dismissed as frivolous when, in fact, it is so much more. Each detail lovingly crafted, each viewpoint carefully considered, Black’s art and the art of his community provided a perfect overlay to the opulence of the grand hotel. Black will forever be remembered in the Biltmore‘s history as its first official artist in residence, and he has left very big shoes to fill for the next creator who comes along.” You can order your copy here: www.biltmorebook.com |
December 2022
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