Biography - Vitamin Dee

Vitamin dee is serious about fun!

Dee, as she is known in the circle of friends, colleagues and photography subjects who inhabit her imaginative landscape, is a photographer of Puerto Rican descent, Dee was raised in the dichotomous worlds of Manhattan’s Loisaida, Stapleton, Staten Island and Brooklyn, NY. These environs and her experience of their vastly different world views, form the foundation of her vision as an artist. Like a footloose street urchin, her sensibility is both playful and darkly knowing, warm and vividly spontaneous, a truly unique perspective into the worlds she chooses to illuminate.

Her early work as a photographer brought her to the dance halls and nightclubs of New York City where she developed the buoyancy of her vision and her work with professional musicians. DJ’s immersed in deep spin, musicians and dancers entranced in groove, all capturing the inherent ecstasy of the moment- these images became her calling card and attracted artists and celebrities such as Jessica “Sugar” Kiper, The Martinez Brothers, Mr. V and Alix Alvarez of Sole Channel Music and Om Records to working with her.

In August of 2008, Dee relocated to Seattle, Washington where her work has continued to evolve as the Pacific Northwest reconfigures her unique vision. Her portfolio has grown to include Portraiture; Erotica; Pet Portraiture; Event photography; and Business photography including Press Kit Photos. Her work also continues to attract the attention of well known artists. In 2009, Dee shot Grammy nominated The Foreign Exchange at Seattle’s Nectar Lounge. Her work was featured in Seattle’s 2009 & 2010 Erotic Art Festival. She has had two exhibitions of her erotic photos at Babeland in May/June 2009 and 2010. In 2011 She was listed as one of the Top 100 Finalist of the annual One Life Photography Competition by Photo District News (PDN) and Artists Wanted. And one of her photos has been chosen to be featured in their upcoming publication, One Life Photos.

The fecund, Northwest has shaped Dee into, yet, another kind of artist. Though she maintains her New York sensibility, capturing the quintessence of her subject matter while infusing it with pure sensuality-color, texture, movement and energy, Dee’s work has gained a fresh subtlety and sophistication. Merging her keen visual sensibility with her love of people, Dee captures the essence of “how people make fun,” which she helps us see is an act of spirit and not mere frivolity.

Bio by Alison Laird Craig.

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