WHO I AM

I’m Les Wollam, an advertising, corporate, and architectural photographer based in Dallas, Texas.

A graduate of the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.  I have traveled the world to gain a versatile and creative eye, living in Spain, Japan, both the East and West Coasts of the United States and now in Dallas.

I have had the honor of being the chief assistant to the world-renowned portrait photographer, Arnold Newman, whose portraits of Monroe, Mondrian, Stravinsky, O’Keeffe, Picasso and others are the iconic images which define those people in our eyes. I made a video about my experiences with him which you can find at https://vimeo.com/58483558. It’s well worth the time to take a look at it to ‘understand’ this amazing photographer.

Although I am a Dallas photographer, I work across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and globally. As mentioned before, I specialize in corporate, portraits, medical research and people, architecture, and annual reports.

Please call or write with your questions, thoughts and comments.

I credit much of my success to discussions with clients to jointly find the very best approach to bringing images to life.

Thank you,

–Les

Dallas photographers Les Wollam & Assoc.
214.395.4732

WHAT I DO

I use my insight, intuition, understanding, and creativity to create uncommon photographs of the commonplace. I work for major corporations, advertising agencies, the medical establishment, and magazines around the world. Highly trained and experienced, I paint eye-catching visual images that tell unique stories.

As corporate photographer, I use photography to help CEOs convey their messages, capturing facial expressions and body language which set a positive tone for shareholders, customers, and employees alike. As an architectural photographer, buildings morph from inanimate structures to colorful images that pop off the page or screen. Working as a photographer for the medical industry gives me the opportunity to photograph the human side of medicine from hospital operating rooms to clinics and people.

I have photographed everything from oil wells in the sunset for annual reports to chemical processes for Fortune 100 companies. With photographs, I have captured everything from newly established medical clinics in Dallas to well-respected hospitals across the nation. Photography allows me to see beyond the traditional cliché to create images that show the subject in an entirely new light, reflecting its depth and credibility.

Thank you,

–Les

Dallas photographers Les Wollam & Assoc.
214.395.4732

FAVORITE QUOTES FROM PHOTOGRAPHERS

“You push the button, we do the rest.” - George Eastman - 1888 after the development of Kodak camera.

“The quickest way to make money at photography is to sell your camera.” - Anonymous

“I would say to any artist: ‘Don’t be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.” -  Edward Weston to Ansel Adams

“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion…the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.” - Dorothea Lange

“A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.” - Eugene Atget

“My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.” - Andy Warhol

“I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.” - Diane Arbus. From Wikipedia: “Photographer of deviant or marginal people, dwarfs, giants, transgender people…” She committed suicide in 1971

“Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.”  -Arnold Newman

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” -Robert Capa, who died photographing the war in French Indochina for Life Magazine.

“If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time.” - Robert Doisneau

“Of course it’s all luck.” –  Henri Cartier-Bresson