Road Tripping
At 10:38 am the text came through on my phone: “You want to do a HD ride from Atlanta to Daytona next week? All expenses paid.” Dudley Brooks is the Director of Photography at Ebony Magazine, my former editor at the Baltimore Sun, and a friend and colleague for over 20 years. We also share [...]
Not my self portrait
My son, Kian started his summer break enrolled in a camp for gifted and talented artists. This drew kids from around the county, some of whom were quite older and more experienced than him. They worked with charcoal, paint and other materials that he had little or no experience with. Day 1 lesson: he would [...]
Dead Prez
The concert series I’ve started photographing continues to stay hot as I hooked up with Dead Prez over the weekend at Sonar in Baltimore. If you’re not hip to their style of black liberation/social revolutionary lyrics, then you need to put it in your ear. Their latest mixtape, Revolutionary But Gangsta Grillz is available for [...]
Distant Relatives
The text said, “wAnted to invite u to nas & damian marley Tonight @ sonar”. A friend of a friend, Jon Sabban was reaching out. Jon and I are planning to collaborate on a project down the road, but hadn’t had an opportunity to meet yet. John clearly likes to do things with style, as [...]
