Who I am
I'm a self-taught artist. I don’t do well in a traditional learning setting: too confining and structured; too many teachers with narrow viewpoints and anal retentive personalities. I’m not trying to be like someone else; a duplicate of their photographic style. I have followed the words of jazz pianist Lonnie Liston Smith during my self-learning journey, “Expand Your Mind to Understand.” I have a PhD in the “trial and error” method of absorbing this craft; and it’s made me strong as tempered steel.
Contrary to the accepted rules of photojournalism, I don’t approach my photography as an impartial observer of events. I shoot with my emotions and my voice. I’m an interpreter, not a narrator. I live on the cutting edge; no dull, cookie-cutter retail photography for me. Rules are for followers. I make my own rules.
For me, it’s about pushing the creative boundaries to shape a unique, visual interpretation when I squeeze the shutter. As a result, my photographic education has been a long and arduous road. I don’t fit into the, “Do Only What I Say,” box most editors prefer. I want a client to hire me for my unique ways of capturing sport through my photographs, not for doing what they want. My appetite for self-learning is really about controlling the process as much as I can. Just let me do what I do.
My work has graced the covers of 20 football media guides, a Major League Baseball media guide, a highway billboard, commercial advertisements, the Doug Williams “Black College” video game, 100 game day football programs, stadiums, locker rooms, murals, 150 sports websites, books, a quilt, on numerous television stations, and more print publications than I can count. My photographs of Black College bands were the nexus of my 2004 one-man exhibition at the Dallas African-American Museum titled, “And the Band Played On.” The exhibit received international media coverage and still owns the top spot on their all-time attendance list. My work hangs in the home of a former ambassador to the United States. He hails from Barbados. NBA Entertainment, Johnson Products, and Alabama Power have been my clients. TJ’s Catfish, in Arlington, Texas, houses a permanent collection of 400 of my best sports images over the last 20 years. My coffee table book, “Athletes As Art” will be released in 2017. This photo essay project explores the lives of 17-22 college and professional basketball players.
I am considered a national expert on special events production, public policy management, marketing, public relations, strategic planning, sports photography, editorial photography, sports history, multimedia development, video production and black college marching band history. In 1986, Mr. Posey implemented the first ATM Machine operation at a major event at Taste of Chicago. He has produced and/or marketed more than 450 special events since 1980 across the United States, including at the 1986 Super Bowl, Taste of Chicago, The Chicago Blues and Gospel Festivals, Ventian Nights Boat Parade, The Chicago Jazz Festival, Hoop-It-Up, McDonald’s “Double Dutch” Progam, NBA All Star Weekend, Ronald McDonald House Program, Miller Sound Express; The Art of Jazz Exhibit; and Men Who Cook. Mr. Posey has won numerous awards for his work. He is a 1975 graduate of Dartmouth College.
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