Artwork copyright Dennis Olanzo Callwood. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Artwork copyright Dennis Olanzo Callwood. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.
La Quincenera #2, 1982
Dennis Olanzo Callwood
American (born 1942)
Location: Harrison Middle School, Sunnyside
About the Artwork
La Quincenera #2 was taken by photographer Dennis Callwood at El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park in Los Angeles, California. This artwork is part of a series of works that seek to capture human emotions and the dynamic cultural landscape of Los Angeles as seen through its festivals. In his own words, "the festivals are mirrors that are transformed into windows for a brief moment, allowing Los Angeles to shed its Hollywood image and reveal its true identity to its citizenry. The citizenry, in turn, is allowed to take a harmless peek at itself."
This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Sunnyside School District.
About the Artist
Photographer Dennis Olanzo Callwood's art documents and investigates the life of people of African descent in the New World. He has also focused on different communities within his hometown of Los Angeles. Callwood states that "my photography is neither photojournalism nor documentation. Rather, it brings the aesthetics of the fine arts to image structures that reveal pure human emotion. The cultural events, their locations, and the stimuli that trigger such emotion are the underlying themes, but it is the emotion itself that I am trying to capture."Dennis Olanzo Callwood was born in the Virgin Islands of the Caribbean, and lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He holds a Bachelor of Art degree in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from the University of Southern California. He also studied photography at the University of Veracruz in Mexico. Callwood worked as a Los Angeles County probation officer for over twenty years.
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