Press, Awards & Exhibits
2024
Barcelona Biennial
December 2024 – February 2025
5 pieces of work from the ‘Objectification’ series.
Venice Art Crawl
March 2024
A solo exhibition at the Green On Main space 5 pieces of work from the ‘Objectification’ series.
2023
Art Against Racism Exhibit
November 2023
Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, California – exhibition of the ‘Daydreaming’ series.
2022
Daydreaming Exhibit
May 2022
Inauguration exhibition for the series ‘Daydreaming’ for the opening of BlackinMayberry.org at the El Segundo Museum of art.
2020
Netflix
2020
Shonda Rhimes documentary of Debbie Allen’s theatrical production ‘The hot Chocolate Nutcracker.’ Images shot by Lee Tonks over a 10 year period shown in the documentary.
2019
In God We Trust Exhibit
October 2019
Photo from “Drop your Weapon” series to exhibit at the Hera Gallery in Rhode Island for the exhibition ‘In God We Trust’, a reflection on religion in America. Juror Neck Pfeifer.
This is AmeriKKKA
September 2019
Exhibition at the Rankin arts center, Columbus state university. Friday, September 6, 6-8pm, Rankin Arts Photography Center, 1004 Broadway, Columbus, GA 31901.
This is AmeriKKKA
August 2019
This is AmeriKKKa to exhibit at Specto Art Space at 91 North Main Street, Harrisonburg Virgina 22802.
This is AmeriKKKA
August 2019
Published in Opal Magazine – Ottawa Canada. The Ottawa Photography & Art Label.
EQUALITY by Debrah Constance
July 2019
Debrah Constance the founder of A Place Called Home, a civil rights activist, artist and honoree of the US Presidential Woman of the Year Award, selected ‘This is AmeriKKKa’ for the back cover of her book, ‘EQUALITY’. This book is an accompaniment to her series of tapestries depicting African American women throughout history.
International Color Awards Nominee
March 2019
Two images from the ‘This is AmeriKKKa’ series were chosen as nominees for the 12th Annual International Color Awards in the professional, fine art category. Selected from over 8,000 entries from 67 different countries. www.colorawards.com
2018
Hot Chocolate Nutcracker
November 2018
Photos that I shot of Debbie Allen’s theatre production The Hot chocolate nutcracker were published by BET (Black entertainment television). See here
PH21 Exhibit
September 2018
‘Ballerina Obscura’ was selected to be exhibited at Gallery PH21 in Budapest. Exhibition dates, August 9th thru September 1st 2018. https://www.ph21gallery.com/
International Color Award
March 2018
Image “The Lagoon” was nominated by Christie’s Paris for an international color award, in the Fine Art Photography category. Chosen from Over 8,000 entrants from 76 different countries.
2017
Black & White Spider Award Nominee
October 2017
Image ‘The Lagoon’ nominated for a Black and white Spider Award. Out of over 8000+ entries from 67 countries. https://www.thespiderawards.com/
2016
Black & White Spider Awards
November 2016
3 images from the series ‘Objectification’ honorable mention in the 11th annual black and white spider awards.
The Kennedy Performing Arts Center
August 2016
The John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, published my images from Debbie Allen’s theatrical production Freeze Frame in all of their marketing and branding for the shows performance at the center with a live discussion panel after the show featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Maria Shriver, Professor Michael Eric Dyson, Debbie Allen and Lee Daniels.
International Color Award
March 2016
‘Coloured Fighter’, Nominated for the 9th annual international award. Chosen from over 7,000 contestants from 82 different countries. https://www.colorawards.com/
2015
January 2015
Book of my images of Debbie Allen’s “The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker” published
December 2015
“Coloured fighter” nominated for a 10th annual Black and white spider award. The Jury represented the industry’s biggest names and tastemakers including Bonhams, Random House, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Stockholm City Museum and the Annenberg Foundation
August 2015
Two of my images from the series “Lost in Mojave” were nominated for The 8th international color award. The jurors included the directors of Christies, saatchi and saatchi, curators from the Copenhagen modern museum of art.
August 2015
One piece from my series “objectification” exhibited at the Los Angeles Art Association’s Gallery 825 show in Los Angeles
June 2015
my photo entitled “how now brown cow” exhibited at the “out there” exhibition at gallery 825 – Los Angeles, CA
May 2015
My photos of musician Chris Brown published in UK’s “The Guardian” newspaper
April 2015
One image from the series “Objectification was nominated for the 8th annual International color award
2014
November 2014
One of my images from the series “objectification” was selected to exhibit at Gallery 825 home of The Los Angeles Art Association
July 2014
My photos from a shoot with Debbie Allen was published on the front cover of Dance Mogul magazine
2013
August 2013
Nominated for 6th Annual Masters Cup Nominee: Fine Art – Professional
January 2013PhotoLA 2013
7 pieces of my work exhibited at the 22nd annual International Photographic art exposition at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
July 2013 2 pieces nominated for the 7th annual Black and White Spider Award
2012
April 2012 2 images from Lost in Mojave series GEM Exhibition at Gallery 825
825 N. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90069
April 2013 – 2 images exhibited in a group show “The F stops here” at The Los Angeles Art Association’s Gallery 825
March 2013 images published in Fstop Magazine
Feb March 2013 issue “Juxtaposition”
January 2013 Gallery 825
Das Paar art exhibition 825 North La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069
January 2012 – 2 pieces exhibited at the 2012 Los Angeles art association Annual Auction
January 2012 – 4 pieces from “Lost in Mojave” exhibited in the 2012 Contemporary Art Ruhr – Essen, Germany
January 2012 – Image from series “Ballerina Obscura” published in the 2012 Photo Paper
2011
January 2011 – Image from the skies “The ties that Bind” winner of the Tag Gallery California open.
December 2010 Image from the series “Ballerina Obscura” nominated for a Black and white spider award
December 2011 3 images from the series “Ballerina Obscura” nominated for a photography Masters cup
November 2011 – Photos from my Dance images series were selected by Sotheby’s to be published in the UNiCEF Book “The beauty around us”
August 2011 – Honorable mention in the 2011 Photo Annual awards, art was exhibited in the gallery in Prague
July 2011 – Image selected as a winner in the 2011 worldwide photography Gala Awards
April 2011 – Image published in JPG magazine
2010 Image from the series “Behind closed doors” winner of a Pollux Award at the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards
March 2011 – New York Photo festival exhibition, images from the series “Ballerina Obscura” exhibited at the show in New York
March 2011 – Images from The ties that bind exhibited at the Vermont Photo Space
February 2011 – a selection of my work was published in Photo Plus, fine art photo magazine in Seoul South Korea
January 2011 – Ballerina Obscura won an honorable mention for a Robert Cornelius award
2010
December 2010 my photos from Debbie Allen’s Hot chocolate nutcracker were published in the Los Angeles Times
February 2010 – Ballerina Obscura nominated for a black and white spider award
February 2010 – Ballerina Obscura published in F Stop magazine
February 2010 – Images from Ballerina Obscura were exhibited at Electron Salon 107 west 5th street, Los Angeles in a group show for the Los Angeles Art Walk
Jan 2010 Images from “Behind closed doors” exhibited at the Vermont Photography Workspace
2009
December 2009 – 2 images from “ behind closed doors” exhibited at the Los Angeles center for digital art
2009 – Image titled “Black and shade” was published and exhibited in “Untitled Art Show” at Ichiban studios, Lawrence Kansas
May 2009 – image “black and shade” was published in JPG magazine
March 2009 – Images from the series “Behind closed doors” was exhibited at “Dirty Pretty Show” the Julia dean workspace, Venice Beach, California
March 2009 – Image from “ behind closed doors” was exhibited at the Deborah Martin Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles
2008
December 2008 Image from behind closed doors was a winner of the Julia Dean annual exhibition, Los Angeles CA
October 2008 – two images from the series “Behind closed doors” exhibited at Gallery Zero, Barcelona Spain
October 2008 – two images from the series “Behind closed doors” exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal art gallery