Lawrence D'Attilio - Artist Photographer

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Lawrence D'Attilio - Artist Photographer

Award-winning international fine art photographer, author, workshop leader and human rights champion. Major exhibits in LA, Spain, Italy, Hanoi.

Based in Los Angeles, and since 2006 have also been working as an artist in Vietnam for many months at a time. My fine art degree is from the University of Louisville, and I also studied photography independently with Ansel Adams. As a professional artist, I've exhibited for many years in the US, Malaysia, Italy, and Vietnam, and I've taught photography in continuing education programs and worksho

ps, mentoring hundreds of students (I continue to teach photography in person and online.) My work in Vietnam also includes raising money for a micro-loan program in Vinh Phuc Province that serves thousands of poor rural women’s startup businesses. A portion of the sale of each art print in the Vietnam collection or my book goes as a donation to that program. I’ve had other careers in my life. I was a pilot and the founder and president of the Bellanca - Champion Club, providing technical support to over one thousand owners of those two aircraft brands. I was the successful co-plaintiff in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court Fast Track decision involving civil liberties for minorities. I had a 31-year professional music career as a bassoon player for three major American symphony orchestras. I produced black and white art early in my career, using large format cameras to make traditional images in the darkroom, while also pursuing my symphony career. Before the new century I’ve embraced color and have been entirely devoted to fine art photography, my earliest and first love.Artist working across the world in several countries. Visit me at: www.larrydattilio.com

08/30/2026

Invitation

The invitation is not gentle.

A winding path disappears into a landscape of shadow, brilliant color, twisted trees, and impossible light. It seems to lead somewhere just beyond our understanding—a place both beautiful and dangerous, familiar and completely unknown.

In Invitation, this artwork transforms the desert into a psychological landscape. The Joshua trees become silhouettes, the sky erupts with color, and the path draws us forward.

Where does it lead? And would you follow it?

Invitation — Lawrence D’Attilio

08/28/2026

Though Terranea is a resort on the Pacific mych of it it's open to public use. The coffee shop there is a gem.

08/25/2026

Inverse of Unreality

What if the landscape we know is only the beginning?

In Inverse of Unreality, monumental rock formations rise from a surreal, almost molten horizon. The familiar becomes dreamlike—stone glows with impossible colors, the sky seems to dissolve into the earth, and the landscape takes on the feeling of another world.

In many of my photos, I try to imagine nature as something both ancient and fantastical, inviting us to question where reality ends and imagination begins.

Inverse of Unreality — Lawrence D’Attilio

08/22/2026

"Her Life is Centered"
This artwork is my paeon to women, based on my experience with my own mother, a remarkable woman who overcame a lot. I miss my mom, but was happy to honor her with my work.

08/20/2026

Hectic Rebirth

What appears at first to be a weathered bundle of leaves, branches, and stone becomes something almost alive—an explosion of color, texture, and movement.

This image transforms the ordinary into the mysterious. Blues and golds collide with flashes of red and orange, while the tangled forms seem to suggest growth, struggle, decay, and renewal all at once.

Perhaps that is the truth of rebirth: it is rarely neat or orderly. Sometimes beauty emerges from the chaos.

08/17/2026

Heating the Depths

What lies beneath the surface?

In Heating the Depths, I'm transforming the photographic image into something mysterious and elemental. Cool blues and greens suggest water, distance, and stillness, while unexpected flashes of red and orange seem to glow from somewhere deep within.

The layers of texture invite us to look beyond what is immediately visible—to wonder what is hidden, what is remembered, and what continues to burn beneath the surface.

What do you see emerging from the depths?

08/15/2026

Ghosts of Trees of the Past

What remains when a tree is gone?

In Ghosts of Trees of the Past, Larry D’Attilio transforms branches, grasses, and tangled vegetation into something almost otherworldly. Brilliant golds and deep violets emerge from a web of delicate lines, while a spectral form rises at the center—like the memory of a tree that refuses to disappear.

The photograph feels less like a record of nature than an encounter with its memory: what we see, what we remember, and what lingers after the living thing has changed.

Ghosts of Trees of the Past — Lawrence D’Attilio

08/13/2026

What does growth look like before it becomes visible?

In this layered, dreamlike photograph, I transformed the human figure into something fluid—part body, part landscape, part memory. Colors collide and forms dissolve, suggesting that transformation is rarely a straight line. We grow through layers: what we were, what we are becoming, and everything in between.

A photograph about emergence, change, and the beautiful uncertainty of becoming.

08/10/2026

Gripping Energies

There is a landscape here, but it refuses to stay still.

Layers of color, texture, light, and abrasion seem to pull against one another—turquoise meeting gold, pink dissolving into gray, bright flashes emerging from a weathered surface. The image feels both ancient and immediate, as if something is continually being uncovered and erased at the same time.

This kind of photograph often invites us to look beyond what is recognizable and into the energy beneath it.

“Gripping Energies” — Lawrence D’Attilio

Address

1119 S. Alma Street Apt 4
Los Angeles, CA
90731

Telephone

5622706195

Website

http://www.lawrencedattilio.com/

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