David LaChapelle at Paul Kasmin Gallery

Energy drinks, green tea tins and more consumer packaging form the basis of semi-retired fashion photography icon David LaChapelle’s latest series, ‘Refineries.’  Working with professional model builders, LaChapelle makes our consumption of fossil fuels – and the materials create from them – personal.  (At Chelsea’s Paul Kasmin Gallery through March 1st.)  

David LaChapelle, Land Scape Riverside, chromogenic print, 71 x 93 inches, 2013.

David LaChapelle at Paul Kasmin Gallery

David LaChapelle, installation view of 'Still Lives' at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Jan 2013.
David LaChapelle, installation view of ‘Still Lives’ at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Jan 2013.

Former celebrity photographer David LaChapelle creates an uncomfortable memento mori for the jet set in his latest solo show at Paul Kasmin Gallery with ‘Still Life,’ a series begun after the National Wax Museum in Dublin was vandalized in 2009.  Here, the Prince of Wales lies shattered in a box next to Heath Ledger & near Cameron Diaz. (Through Jan 19th).