| "All conflict comes from attachment."
~Anthony de Mello
Once, meandering through Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, I was making my way along the lake shore near Kylemore Abbey. This little boat was tugging at its tethered line and it reminded me of how we are all "attached" to our thoughts, our home, our possessions and how we really become those thoughts in our own individual way. I suppose true happiness is causeless. It occurred to me that if something causes me happiness, I will... | |  |
This is a series of black and white and color natural landscape photos.
 | | This series reflects a photographic journey into the abandoned asylum of a Massachusetts State Hospital (established 1854.)
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 | | These are a series of portraits of people in their natural states.
Please contact for availability and rates:
DavidLeeBlack@gmail.com
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 | | This is a series of reflections observed along the way~ |
 | | This gallery includes whimsy found along the way~
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 | | This gallery includes selected commissioned works.
Please contact for availability and rates:
DavidLeeBlack@gmail.com
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 | | This is a series of the natural human form. |
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Boston, MA
United States
| Artist Statement
Photography is simply a function of noticing things."—Elliott Erwitt
The pilgrimage never ends, but my journey of images touches both the simple and sublime en route. Immersed in the places, people and events that become my vision and guide, my photographs are meant to evoke the emotional and spiritual interactions with the natural moment at hand. I invite you to share in my personal sense of wonder.
~David Lee Black
Biography
David Lee Black, an award-winning photographer, references the depth of the natural world and its inhabitants with his unique vision. Conveying not only light and shadow, David imparts a sense of storytelling folklore and a timeless mythology. Evoking emotion and the sense of being connected to abandoned places almost sacred, David's images articulate emotional truths far beyond the scope of literal meaning.
"Each photograph owns it's own setting, heart and soul, without apology or reservation."
David’s work has been commission for... |
| calma
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us,
that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer,
perhaps even a fiercer life,
life because of our quiet.”
~W.B. | | traseiro
You live and let live. And eventually, that becomes enough. | | erros
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?"
~P. | | baggage
“The past has no power to stop you
from being present now.
Only your grievance about
the past can do that.
What is grievance?
The baggage of old
thought and emotion.”
~Lao Tzu
| | Temple
"Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith."
~Robert Brault |
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