Artist Lionel Delevingne observes the world in a careful and purposeful way, then boldly extracts the extraordinary from the everyday. His aesthetic reflects this way of
life—he is uncommonly mindful, a purist and an iconoclast simultaneously, a blender of art and politics. His early work in photographic reportage was black-and-white, but soon publications like The New York Times, for which Delevingne worked for many years, shifted to color in response to consumer demand. Delevingne is most known for his bodies of work To The Village Square: from Montague to Fukushima 1975-2014, in which he documents the insidious threat of nuclear power, and drylands, a Rural American Saga (2011), a pictorial essay done in collaboration with journalist Steve Turner depicting both the beauty and the struggles of rural life in the United States.
