SUMMER PROJECT: STREET-LIFE SERIES

Like most people, your actions, interests, ideas and opinions are an externalization of your character. For me, as an artist, my art is a perfect representation of myself. I have attempted to employ organization to my art countless times, but have failed miserably. I will not say I am necessarily giving up, but I will say I have learned to find comfort and satisfaction with the way that I conduct my presentation of my work. I am chaotic, inconsistent, and savagely unorganized. I won't call it a problem. No, it's not at all a problem. Each time I cook up ideas for photo-series, I always break out of the structure; I hate structure. I have a free mind and I delight in expressing aspects of myself freely; my art shouldn't be exempted from that. This summer, I have decided to extend my photography more into the candid free nature of street-life photography. In case you are not aware, I go to school in North Carolina. I am constantly condemning the overall appeal of the area I stay at in NC simply for the fact its character does not appeal to me. Maybe it will, but I just won't surrender myself to being in its captivity. Now that I am back home in New York for the summer, the place where I feel possesses unspeakable amount of character. Along with a street-life series of photography, I will also dabble into conceptual and street-fashion. Perhaps, some fashion photography. It shouldn't prove difficult to find able and willing participants. Initially, I advertised the want of subjects/model on tumblr and facebook and surprisingly got some immediate feedback. However, the whole organization thing posed as an enormous bump on the road. I delight in spontaneity, like I previously mentioned, so I think I would rather take the route of asking acquaintances, associates and friends to be my subjects. Or simply approach random individuals on the skreet. Yeah, I said skreet. All in all, I hope to continue telling stories through my photographs. If you delight in my work, stay tuned.
Here are some photographs I've captured so far:





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SOHO-SAILING

I've been back home since Wednesday and I've literally been on the move ever since. Yesterday, Friday, was the only day I've had a chance to do what I actually wanted to do as opposed to doing what I need to do. lol I know that sounds backwards, but a balance between wants and needs should be established. Yeah, so I was out in the SoHo area with one of my sisters shopping for an outfit for my siblings' graduation ceremony and after-party. Don't get carried away with me awarding the celebration afterwards an "afer-party"; it is, but a mere birthday dinner. lol it's still a party though. I scored some great finds at the thrift and finally bought my first pair of heels. Ha! Every pair of heels I've ever owned this far in my life, has been bought for me by others. It felt kind of....empowering. lol. I'm an advocate for the idea that there are other ways to exhibit your womanhood than to wear makeup heavily and strut around in 6+inch heels. I'll take some photos of my thrift finds and my shoe-zeeeees.
Oh. I'd just like to state it took my sister roughly 30 tries to get at least 5 decent photos of me--pitiful. You can imagine how awkward it was for us, more specifically me, standing there patiently waiting to be photographed. Ugh.

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NO*14: SOHO SAILING

These are photos from the last shoot I did before leaving NY. I promise you, no exaggeration, we trekked all over the SoHo and NoHo area searching for spots suitable for back drops for the photos! lol. We met up around 11am and didn't round up till around 4. Yeah shit was severe but it was all worth it. Perhaps, I need a team. Ehh, I work better alone. I did the makeup and assisted in styling. For the most part, she had an idea of what she wanted her looks to look like.
I mixed up both edited and unedited shots. You can probably tell which I edited and allllat...
Actually, to make things easier, the B&ws are unedited.







There's much more on my Flickr.
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AND THE BEAT GOES ON

Also from the day in the previous post. This was while I was waiting for the salesperson to bring me my moccasins. Which I had to buy a size bigger because well, that's all they had. I wear a size 9 but got 'em in a 10. I don't mind though seeing as ONE foot is indeed bigger than the other and for me, my right foot is bigger...lmao random TEFFY fact. ^_^ :



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A DAY WITH THE TRIBE

I've been on a slight hiatus from blogging simply 'cause I go back to school saturday morning and I've been busy shopping and trying to chill with EVERYone before I leave. So the other day, well day before yesterday, I dipped out to Queens with my mans @kid_love to finally get this haircut (pictures coming soon) that I've been dying to get since LAST summer...later on went shopping and linked up with most of his crew (cool peeps) and also with my boo thing @DeaPierre . I was running on 3 hours of sleep and one meal but I immediately forgot because of the dopeness of the peeps I was surrounded by...amazing: