David LaChapelle Returns to the UNC-School of the Arts
The one-time student tells 2015's high school graduating class: "This school changed my life.”
According to Winston-Salem Journal writer Jennifer Drabble, famed photographer and music video director David LaChapelle was noticably nervous this past Saturday while giving a speech to the high school graduating class of the UNC-School of the Arts students. He was once, briefly, a student there too.
But those jitters mattered not to the 121 graduates in the audience, who were wowed by the caliber of LaChapelle’s professional accomplishments and the details of his teenage years. From the article:
When he applied to the School of the Arts as a 16-year-old, LaChapelle was a “straight F-student” who had dropped out of high school in Connecticut after enduring two years of non-stop bullying.
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