David Belisle

Lives & works in New York & Seattle.

TOUR PHOTOGRAPHER:

2010: R.E.M. -"Collapse into Now" (still photographer), Berlin.

2009: Yeah Yeah Yeah's -"It's Blitz", US tour.

2007/2008: R.E.M. -"Accelerate" world tour. US, UK, Europe, Mexico, Canada, South America.

2006 Yeah Yeah Yeah's -"Gold Lion" tour. US & South America.

2004/2005: R.E.M. -"Around the Sun" world tour. US, UK, Europe, Asia, Japan, Mexico, Canada, South America.

2003: R.E.M. -"In Time" tour. US, UK, Canada, Europe

2001: R.E.M. -"Bridge School Benefit" San Francisco, CA (my introduction to working on tour).

PUBLISHED BOOK:

2008 "R.E.M. Hello=" Chronicle Books, hardcover/ 192 pp; 175 color and b/w darkroom photographs from my travels with R.E.M. Published in U.S. June 2008, -also published in Spain, Germany & Italy (translated).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2009 December : Leica National Gallery, (Solm, Germany at Leica Headquarters). "R.E.M./backstage, Intimate Portrait Behind the Tours".

2009 November: Easy Street Records, West Seattle. "Musicians & Landscapes".

2002 November: "Mormon Fag", larger than life [Agra Ultra 50] 30x40" color photographs of 50 year old Willum Pugmire, Seattle community anti-icon & dishwasher. Cyclops, Seattle.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2011 Sept "You and Me", Local Project, Long Island City NY.

2011 May-July "Performance/Art", Seattle City Hall, WA.

2010 July-Oct "A Star is Born: Rock Photography Since Elvis", Museum Folkwang, Essen Germany.

2008 June: Belle & Wissel Gallery, Seattle. "Accidents will Happen", rock photography accidents.

2008 March: Institute of Contemporary Arts, [ICA]. London. "R.E.M. at the ICA"

2001 July: Vital 5 Gallery, Seattle. "Before & After"