About David Capes
I have a great passion for photography. I love the idea of recording a slice of life and trying to make it timeless. As an avid collector and dealer of fine art photography since the mid-nineties, I experienced and learned firsthand how the great and iconic works in photography always seem to reflect a story unfolding in the image. They focus on conveying information “about” the subject as opposed to simply recording a pleasing image “of” the subject. For the past 20 years, I have tried to put that concept into my own photography. Put another way, I have always tried to find and capture a glimpse of the “soul” of the subject,
I have been incredibly lucky and fortunate to experience the pleasure that photography brings, especially taking time to purposely connect with people, places, and things. I believe “stopping to truly see the world” and to “smell the roses” is necessary to make a good picture. I am always looking to see the humanity, beauty, fragility, delight and possibility in life as well as finding the past in the present. My artistic interests derive mainly from the works of painters such as Edward Hopper and John Sloan, from the master street photographers Cartier-Bresson, Kertesz, and Walker Evans, and from the color photography of Eggleston, Christenberry, Steven Shore, and Michael Eastman.
I became a senior lawyer in 2013, after practicing and teaching tax controversy law for more than forty years. I have traveled to over forty countries photographing people, landscapes, exteriors, interiors, still life, and other subjects. I was recently in Cambodia and Vietnam, as well as Paris, taking new images.
My photography is available both in color and black and white prints. The images are taken with the best digital cameras and lenses and the prints offered are printed on archival fine art photographic papers in three standard sizes. All images are professionally printed and signed. Images in sizes other than those shown on the website portfolios and images with or without borders can be specially ordered if you contact me. Matting and framing are also available upon request.
I hope you enjoy what you see and I welcome contacts, comments, feedback. My Instagram site is located at “david_capes_photography” where you will also find another link to this website if there are photos on Instagram, but not in these portfolios, that interest you.
Education
Georgetown University, LLM in Taxation
University of Arkansas School of Law
Rhodes College
Events
Participated in National Geographic Photography Workshop in New Orleans, 2010
Selected to Exhibit at Edward Hopper House, New York, 2012.
Co-Sponsored Exhibits by Master Photographer Mario Algaze and Brian Hamill
Participated in New Zealand Group Exhibition at Bullivant Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Participating in Group Exhibit of Travel Photography, Lightroom Gallery, Panama City, Florida Dec. 2018
Exhibitions
Edward Hopper House and Museum, New York, 2012 (see above)
Bullivant Photography Gallery, Group Exhibition of New Zealand Photographs, St. Louis, Missouri 2017
The Lightroom, Panama City, Florida, Dec. 2018