David Lindsey Wade
www.davidlindseywade.com
David Lindsey Wade made a few important choices during his prime teen rebellious years. Raised by a pair of artists, his way of challenging his parents (who were already a bit off the grid) was to embrace his attraction to speed and excitement through his passion for machines.
He fell in love with hot rods and motorcycles. Taking them apart and putting them back together. The intensity of his attraction was exactly the same as artists have with their own process and product. Their own need for self reflection, to see their ideas live and breathe. To construct, and deconstruct.
But he could not escape what was perhaps his genetic imperative.
Even early on, when he first started as a retoucher, he certainly could "see" what artists see. The play of light, the details of surroundings, the power of passion and improvisation. He began to notice how it informed his own creativity. Looking at his work now, it is hard to imagine how he could have contained it at all. Or chosen another path.
Lindsey's photographs are refreshingly un-ironic. His images are a powerful combination of directorial realism coupled with an aggressively graphic finish. Lindsey's style, though subtle on the shoot, is intended to evoke an intense emotionalism and in his portraits in particular, can also belie a kind of silent strength in his subjects. Certainly it is easy to see his playful or quirky gestural sense, but is often delivered through very classic photographic delivery style. He believes in an executional style that does not ask questions. His work has an uncanny "in the moment" presence. An intense engagement. His action is bold; his narrative -- cinematic and provocative. He tells the whole story and is unapologetically committed to his own point of view. You are seeing the inside of his head. His heart. His libido. Lindsey's pictures are straight up. His subjects, and himself, laid bare.
He fell in love with hot rods and motorcycles. Taking them apart and putting them back together. The intensity of his attraction was exactly the same as artists have with their own process and product. Their own need for self reflection, to see their ideas live and breathe. To construct, and deconstruct.
But he could not escape what was perhaps his genetic imperative.
Even early on, when he first started as a retoucher, he certainly could "see" what artists see. The play of light, the details of surroundings, the power of passion and improvisation. He began to notice how it informed his own creativity. Looking at his work now, it is hard to imagine how he could have contained it at all. Or chosen another path.
Lindsey's photographs are refreshingly un-ironic. His images are a powerful combination of directorial realism coupled with an aggressively graphic finish. Lindsey's style, though subtle on the shoot, is intended to evoke an intense emotionalism and in his portraits in particular, can also belie a kind of silent strength in his subjects. Certainly it is easy to see his playful or quirky gestural sense, but is often delivered through very classic photographic delivery style. He believes in an executional style that does not ask questions. His work has an uncanny "in the moment" presence. An intense engagement. His action is bold; his narrative -- cinematic and provocative. He tells the whole story and is unapologetically committed to his own point of view. You are seeing the inside of his head. His heart. His libido. Lindsey's pictures are straight up. His subjects, and himself, laid bare.
