2012 February «

I was in disparate need to shoot film. I hadn’t done it in a while. My friend Hector and I went across the field by his house to take some photos. When we were walking I couldn’t help but feel peaceful. I told him the feeling of being outside at the end of the day reminded me of my childhood. “When I was a little girl I played with the neighbor boy in his grandpa’s junk yard, this kinda feels like this. ” I told him to stand still so I can take some pictures, but as any boy, he kept moving. haha.

There is something pure about film, it capture the purity of life.

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Photos: Shawn & Lolade

February 23, 2012 1 Comment

My EX- co worker (inside joke), asked me if I would do a shoot with him and his girlfriend. Since we’re use to working together, it was awkward telling him to kiss his girlfriend in front of me. I pretend I was shooting an indie movie so I could snap out of my, “office mother” roll. (I used to tease him that I was the office mother, making sure he took breaks and was eating.)
Now that he has my old position he has the big bucks to pay for new cars and photos shoots.
Love ya Shawn, you and Lolade are so cute

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Make Them Feel Beautiful Not Imperfect

February 21, 2012 1 Comment

My cousin asked me if I could do a shoot with her. She told me she went to the mall with a few of her friends to take pictures. My aunt began to tell me about their experience. “The man at the studio used a green screen for the backdrop. The picture came out looking fake. You could see green in their hair. He also touched up the photos, painting make up on the girls, adding eye lashes, taking out the lines on their face, and making their eyes bigger. He said he was making the photos ‘better’.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I didn’t know if I should laugh or be angry. For one, these girls are fourteen, they have no wrinkles!
Getting photograph is an experience that should make the subject feel beautiful not imperfect. It’s the photographer’s job to capture the best in people not be a plastic sergeant.
I told my cousin I would take a few photos of her. I knew she loved to draw graffiti so I took her to a wall of graffiti I found a few years ago. She loved it.