Leon Armour, Jr.
PHOTOGRAPHER AND MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST
Owner and Creative Director of
VISUAL STIMULI STUDIOS
753 Irving st. NW Washington, DC. 20010 - #202-882-7111 Mailbox 3
slr-eyes@att.net
"Earth Angel" - Model: Alex Asselin
Bio & Photos
Bio: The arts in its many forms, have always been a part of my life. As an only child and part of the Latch-Key generation, both parents still made time to make sure I was well educated, exposed to art, music, and theater. From the strong structured influence of a career military father to the emotional guidance of a free sprited, LIVE LIFE mother. I embraced the loving, stern, well traveled, multi cultural, and socially diverse upbringing they provided. I feel it made me the creative and emotional expressive artist I am today, and made the man behind the art.
I was 11 years old when I was given my first camera, Something that changed my life forever. At first, I was fascinated with just being able to capture a moment in time, that could later be viewed and invoke a full range of memories and feelings. I took the camera everywhere. By the age of 15, I had out grown my instamatic camera. I was then ready to move up to a real camera, a 35mm. I remember my Dad thinking that this was just a hobby and he was not going to buy a 15 year old kid a $500 camera. To find out how serious I was, he said if I could come up with half the money, he would match it. Well I worked my 15 year old butt off and earned the money. He gave me the other half of the money and I became the proud owner of my first 35mm camera. Again the camera became an extension of me. Over the next few years, I learned as much as I could about the art of photography. I took classes, read books, and shot any and everything I could. This was the point where I began to draw from the other forms of art I had learned about earlier in my life, to incorporate them into the development and fine tuning of my photographic skills. There is one other thing that I did that I think enables me to capture the images I do today, I stopped LOOKING at the world and opened my eyes, and began to SEE the world.
"The Deftones" - Live at the 930 Club
"A Child of Spring" - Spring bloom of 2005
"Lunch Time" - Deen & Delucas Deli
"Mean Lean" - AMA Superbike Champianship Race 2005
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