Photography
In addition to music production, Dre is an internationally renowned photographer, specializing in the world of fashion and global brand advertising. His subjects have included Pelé, Lenny Kravitz, Barry Bonds, Dwight Howard and Pierre Cardin and he has created ad campaigns for brands such as Canon, Alfa Romeo and Vogue.
Dre was also responsible for the creation of the entire visual presentation for legendary songwriter Diane Warren's new project DUE VOCI. He photographed the album cover and all other images to be used worldwide to portray the dynamic and talented pair Kelly Levesque and Tyler Hamilton Tyler Hamilton (singer) who sing a selection of Diane Warren's greatest loves songs. The album is scheduled for release on Universal Records together with a PBS TV Special on June 8, 2010.
In early 2011 Dre was asked to design, produce and photograph the album cover and interior artwork for the Herb Alpert Album I Feel You, released that same year. Dre’s photography work was well received, and he went on to direct a series of music videos from I Feel You as well as a documentary film centered on Herb and Herb's wife, Lani Hall. The documentary is currently in post-production with a release date TBD.
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“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.”
—Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942)