The best way that I would choose to describe David LaChapelle's work is 'Surreal Storytelling'. His work is extremely vivid, with saturated colours. Often his images are extremely busy (not a bad thing) and have lots of action within them, you can usually see about 4 or 5 sub stories going on within the main one.

His first photograph was of his single mother, Helga LaChapelle, on a family vacation in Puerto Rico. She wore a bikini and held a martini glass on a balcony. He took this when he was 6 years old. From then on he was obsessed with photography.

Andy Warhol offered LaChapelle his fist professional photography job working for 'Interview' magazine.

He is known often for creating controversial images such as that of Courtney Love supposedly holding Kurt Cobain, dressed as Jesus, in her arms.

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