Natively New Orleans, Donovan Fannon grew up a troubled youth. After a forceful exit ending his high school freshman year, he was accepted into the visual art program at the (then Uptown) New Orleans Center for Creative Art. More likely than not, this shift “saved” his sanity and life, a statement (it seems) sha… Read More
Natively New Orleans, Donovan Fannon grew up a troubled youth. After a forceful exit ending his high school freshman year, he was accepted into the visual art program at the (then Uptown) New Orleans Center for Creative Art. More likely than not, this shift “saved” his sanity and life, a statement (it seems) shared by many of his classmates. It was here where he learned myriad visual disciplines, but most importantly, he was introduced to two things that would be his spiritual anchors up to the present day: Cameras and Photoshop.
His early anonymous work, in the form of flier design, would be passed around to kids in the street, pinned on bulletin boards, left in stacks at the doors to cafes and bars. Eventually, he would DJ at the same events he would design fliers for, and shifted focus on music (and less on design). An awkward youth, Donovan’s social anxieties were lessened whenever he felt a “role” to play at these events, so he decided that whenever he wasn’t performing at raves, he would have a camera and photograph them. This need to be productive (plus the purchase of a fisheye lens) would eventually lead to his current style of dynamic music performance photography, locally celebrated in the circles in which he covers.
Donovan’s work has been used in music industry publications through North America, focusing especially on the Gulf Coast, published in various magazines, newspapers, and websites, including Tiger Weekly, Rebel Ink Magazine, Antigravity, XLR8R, Time Out Chicago, SubSynthesis, and others.
A member of numerous professional photography organizations, he is also an organizer for the New Orleans Photography Experience, which helps nurture a thriving local social community of photographers, professional and amateur alike, in order to grow as artists and explore our vibrant city.
Prints of many of his works are available through his website donovanfannon.com. Read Less