Dave Lawrence Photography

Chicago, IL – shot on iPhone 13 mini.

Back to Chicago – this time with the kids on Spring Break. I brought along the Canon EOS M2 and EF-M 22mm f/2. One lens, one perspective, one view of the Windy City. Or lots of views: through windows, outside and inside, on the train, people walking through the streets. Street photography wasn’t the point […]

But storytelling photography still matters because it’s the closest thing we have to empathy made visible. It’s the one art form that can collapse the distance between “them” and “us.” It turns suffering into understanding, moments into meaning, strangers into witnesses. A storytelling image has no expiration date. It doesn’t need hashtags or virality. It […]

If you grew up in a chaotic household – either because of dysfunctional or egotistical parents, a troubled family, or any of the many, many ways kids can have it tough – you can usually go one of two ways: either protect yourself and build a life that avoids that chaos, or fall into chaos […]

Beautiful sunset on an almost-spring evening. It was that kind of atmosphere that turns everything a different color.  Even the kids had to take out their phones and capture the magic: Captured on the Canon EOS M6 and EF-M Viltrox 23mm f/1.4.

Want to know a secret? I’m a wrestling fan. Have been since I was a kid. So when an old friend, who came out of a four-year retirement to wrestle, gave me a heads-up on some indy wrasslin’ for a good cause? Count me in.  I took my daughter, who joins me for my annual […]

Early in the pandemic, our youngest daughter, Riley, had to celebrate her birthday outside. Social distancing and flattening the curve – you remember all that. Of course, it rained. But family and friends still came by to wish her a happy birthday. Shot on the Canon 5D (classic!) and EF 40mm f/2.8.