Hip Hop
The other night I received an email from Frankie over at Weekly Rap Gods looking to use images of Dres that I had shot as part of a personal project of mine on Hip Hop.
You can see the images and check out the interview over here: www.weeklyrapgods.com
If you’re a true hip hop head, you’ll love all the classic videos of Black Sheep that they added to the interview.
Enjoy!
Last month I received a call from Mr. Complex about working together again, this time on his newest album coming out at the end of May. The concept was to shoot him on an empty train here in NYC, because of his underground hip hop title. The empty train was to symbolize how few acts are getting mainstream exposure that have a positive message. Let's be clear, there are a few greats that are out now, but with the influx of "mumble rap"....nuff said.
We first went for one in Jamaica, Queens where he's from, but we were unable to make that one happen. So we jumped on the L train at Broadway Junction and headed to Canarsie. Since we were shooting guerilla style, we couldn't bring a bunch of lighting gear, luckily the day was in our favor and we had plenty of light on an above ground track! Here's where we started off...
I dig it, but we can do better than that!
This was our final image for the back cover. Keep an eye out for the album to see what else we packed into the inlay of the vinyl!
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing Dres, co founder of the hip hop group Black Sheep. It was a year in the planning with schedules, shoots and tour dates all pushing it back. But it finally got here and we couldn’t have asked for a better day for it. Minus the fact that we were shooting in Corona, Queens, NY in front of the Unisphere which is located in front of Citi Field (Shea Stadium) during opening day!
Our first polaroid of Dres went something like this.
I was diggin' it, but I wanted a more dramatic looking image so we fired up the lights. Here's what we got after that.