D. Lawrence Barksdale
CLIENTS :
Bank of America
Mitsubishi Motors
Glanbia International
Marriott Bonvoy
Hilton Hotels
IHG Hotels
CertainTeed Building Materials
+ more
D Lawrence Barksdale discovered his love for creating images in high school, where he was nominated to be their Sterling Scholar in Art. He bought a used Minolta SRT101 from a friend, and began taking pictures (when he could afford the film & processing).
When he was 21, fresh off a 2-year residence in Japan, he married a high school girlfriend, whose father was a retired photographer… loaded up with medium format gear that he barely knew how to use, he proved himself a fast learner, and very quickly established himself as a talented photographer in his own right… and wound up a partner in a local photo studio.
He took a break from photography for a decade or so and worked in high tech as a senior executive in Silicon Valley. When NASDAQ crashed in 2000, he went back to his first love… photography. Older and wiser, he decided to forgo the dog-eat-dog world of retail photography to concentrate on the dog-eat-dog world of commercial work, and quickly settled on architecture, product, food, and editorial… where he wound up the Chief Photographer for Hendon Publishing in Des Moines, IA and worked for a host of Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 clients, as well as a healthy smattering of national/regional publications and periodicals, such as South Magazine, in Savannah, GA.
Fast forward 24 years, and his client list is as impressive as it is diverse. He currently resides in Aubrey, TX with his wife of 29 years, Tracy, and his (very fat) dog and 3 co-dependent cats.