Jerome Albertini Annalisa Janette Beckman Teri Bloom Chris Buck Danny Clinch Michel Comte Mo Daoud Matthew Dean Peter Dokus Sante D'orazio George Dubose Roger Erickson Davis Factor Jesse Frohman Marc Hom T. Hopkins Gregory Jackson Hassan Jarane Eric Johnson Jeffrey Kane David Katzenstein Kevin Knight David LaChapelle Christian Lantry Michael Lavine Robert Lewis Dana Lixenberg Anthony Mandler Jonathan Mannion Clay Patrick McBride Ernie Paniccioli Adam Port Ebet Roberts Matthew Salacuse Michael Schreiber Mark Seliger Jamel Shabazz Piotr Sikora Atsuko Tanaka Max Vadukul Nitin Vadukul Cesar Vera Christian Witkin         David LaChapelle David Lachapelle was born in Connecticut, north Carolina in 1968. He studied at the art student's league and north Carolina school of arts. at age of 19, Mr. LaChapelle went to New York where he met Andy Warhol. He began his photography career created by Warhol. David LaChapelle is a photographer who tends to create his own visionary world, rather than reproduce what's visible in the world, a photography style that can be compared to no one. David LaChapelle has evolved his photography into an idiosyncratic and highly personal combination of reportage and surrealism. Lachapelle is one of photography's brightest stars, bringing high intensity, larger than life images to the pages of magazines worldwide (as I-D, arena, the New York time magazine, rolling stones, vogue, the face, the London Sunday times and vanity fair) initially distinguished by his campy fixation with white-trash culture, LaChapelle is also known for his groundbreaking use of computer manipulation and futuristic fashion shoots and for placing Hollywood celebrities-- from Madonna, Uma Thurman, Elton john to drew Barrymore to the X-files' David Duchovny -- in wildly imaginative and often compromising erotically charged settings. LaChapelle's monstrosities are that breed of gaunt, blemishes human built and enslaved by heavy makeup, lighting and the glorifying voodoo of photographic attention, e.g., models, transsexuals and ... leonardo di caprio. It is a prophecy of even scurvier spiritual illness yet to come from our media-centric society, in the not-so-distant future. In the last years he also created music videos: the station promo he directed for MTV, which recast a scene from the tragi-camp classic' whatever happened to baby Jane with an aging Courtney love and Madonna; the 'natural blues' video for Moby... Recipient of the 1997 international center of photography's infinity award and the 1996 VH1 fashion award for photographer of the year, LaChapelle creates images that are cultural cues as well as advertising campaigns for such prestigious accounts as Estee Lauder, Prescriptives, Volvo, Levis, diesel jeans. < < Click on an Immortal Photographer.