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 workshops, 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

09/14/2026

Great news! I'll be at the Beverly Hills Art Show October 17 and 18, Saturday and Sunday, Booth 399. Stop by and say hello!

09/13/2026

Martial Weather
Photograph by Lawrence D’Attilio

The city is never still.

In Martial Weather, architecture seems to dissolve into atmosphere as flashes of red, blue, and turquoise break through a veil of gray. What might once have been a recognizable urban scene becomes something more unsettled—a collision of structure, weather, light, and memory.

The layered approach asks us to look beyond what a photograph records and consider what a place feels like.

Is the city emerging from the storm—or disappearing into it?

09/11/2026

Weather of Becoming

Somewhere between what was and what will be, there is this unsettled place.

Forms emerge and disappear. Color breaks through. Nothing seems entirely fixed. In Weather of Becoming, Lawrence D’Attilio turns fragments of the visible world into something less certain—a landscape that might be physical, emotional, or remembered.

Perhaps becoming is always a little like this: turbulent, unfinished, and unexpectedly beautiful.

— Lawrence D’Attilio

09/08/2026

What would music look like if we could see it?

In Key of B-flat, Larry D’Attilio turns landscape, color, and light into something that feels almost orchestral. Blues and violets provide a quiet underlying harmony, while bursts of green, gold, rust, and white emerge and recede like musical phrases.

Nothing stays entirely still. Forms appear, dissolve, and reappear; textures overlap like voices in an ensemble. The recognizable world is still there, but it has been transformed into something closer to sensation than description.

Perhaps music and visual art meet in just this place—where meaning no longer needs words.

Key of B-flat — Lawrence D’Attilio

09/04/2026

Finite End.
We see endings in nature constantly. What can this teach us about our lives on Earth?

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.

Address

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

Telephone

5622706195

Website

http://www.lawrencedattilio.com/

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