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Artwork copyright Dennis Olanzo Callwood. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.
Flower of Bondage, 1979
Dennis Olanzo Callwood
American (born 1942)
Location: Meridian Park Elementary School, Shoreline
About the Artwork
Flower of Bondage was captured by fine art photographer Dennis Callwood in Belize in 1979. This piece is part of a larger photographic project investigating and documenting the unique cultures, communities, and daily lives of people of African descent in Central America.
This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Shoreline 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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