Your work has such nuances of classic black excellence. What is your process and intention for each shoot?
If it's like my photojournalism work, I like to tell the story of what's kind of going on and just bring bring the person and beautiful light. Whether it's added light or typically I just shoot natural light. And if it's more studio photography, I like to just sit and really think of how this subject should be portrayed and and how do I see them being portrayed for the shoot still in beautiful light. But yeah, I like to do research on the person, really do a deep dive on where the person comes from. And then I just think start thinking creatively about what I see.
Well, in this day and age, there's been like a definite emergence of photography. I think the amount of photographers that really come out and I think have just become so successful has been really nice. But are there any other photographers right now that have inspired you or anyone from the past?
Yeah, my favorite photographer is. A mix between Howard Bingham, Gordon Parks, Annie Leibovitz, I would say photographers of this modern day that inspire me are Sasha Samsonova and Micaiah Carter.
Okay. So you've captured in really different settings, I feel like it really shows throughout your work how you can keep the emotion of each shoot so profound, Since you’ve worked in concerts or you've done really personal photo shoots. So if you had to pick, especially when it comes to your photojournalism work, is there a particular setting that you feel more comfortable with or you prefer shooting with?
So actually, I just traveled to Vegas and I shot Usher's concert and it was really different for me because, you know, through Covid and through everything, you know, everything kind of scaled down a lot, even photo shoots and, you know, how many people are on set and stuff. And I'm used to just being a one man band through like these last five years. And I would say, like, I love just documenting moments, but I've grown to love studio photography or, you know, outside natural lighting and more locations so I would honestly say that. My favorite would probably be location shoots.