A Few Work Samples
Over the past forty years I have developed an impressive client list that has included: The Ford Foundation; United Way Worldwide; NFL Partnerships; The Commonwealth Fund; UNICEF: Ethiopia - New York - Swaziland; World Food Program, Sénégal; Oxfam; Rockefeller Bros. Fund; The Carnegie Corporation; The World Economic Forum, Addis Ababa; Towers Perrin; Young and Rubicam; McCann Erikson; European PressPhoto Agency; The New York Times; and a host of magazines and record labels. May I help you?
Denver Broncos and United Way of America
In 2014, before leaving for Dakar, I traveled with a team of United Way executives across America photographing NFL players and various children from community organizations. From jacksonville, Florida to Seattle Washington, we drove an overstuffed SUV loaded with a mobile "CNN" studio to each NFL location. Between shoots, we discovered many aspects of America we had never seen before.
Lingerie Model
Many actors and actresses have had to be filmed in sensual scenes. As intimate as the image might appear, there is often a huge film crew behind the scenes. The models are exposed to everything and everyone. And yet they exhibit a calm, beautiful confidence.
Carrignton Design
We photographers are part of the creative community. So very often we are called upon fashion designers and models to help adverise their portfolio. If it's good for me than I will be good to them. We all help each other and often come up the ranks together. Onslow Carrington is today a very succesful deigner.
Brother Tiz
In 2001, after eight years of riding, partying, drinking, and dancing, powerHouse books published my first book "Brooklyn Kings: New York City's Black Bikers." I was an immediate success with most readers never having known that such an organized band of bikers even existed. The title is a play on words since Brooklyn is actually Kings County - bordering its sibling Queens County. I was feted by news and media outlets from around the world. BBC sent a reporter who wanted to experience the "real" Brooklyn of my stories. Unfortunately for them, my guys don't parade around with guns holsters and girls for just anyone. It took me years to build up that trust.
Get Your Head Right
What can I say, I have a wry sense of humor. We photographers are trained to be curios, to run towards danger, not away. Many thinks make me smile. This temporary hair loss happened numerous times during the Olympics when track and field runners occasionally lost their heads.
Belle Donne
Island hopping through Greece I chanced upon these two medical students from Italy. They were photographing each other and I thought to myself, why not disturb their solitude and make a few bikini photos in the mix. "Uomo americano" they asked? And we both said sì and laughed.
Jennifer Barretta
We met at Broadway Billiards, an underground billiards parlor and gambling den. From the moment you walked downstairs you felt you were in a Hollywood movie from 1960. Smoking indoors was legal then so the lighting was a mixture of overhead lamps that only illuminated the table, and hustlers hidden behind clouds of smoke.
G-Money
This is an old photo from my archives. Washington Square Park is in the West Village and the center of the NYU campus. It is a 24 hour park and many characters meet there. This original hipster has seven paper rings on his fingers. The bills vary from $20 to $100. The sheepskin coat is evidence that we are in the early 80s.
Holi Mountain
The Indian Embassy hosted a Holi celebration in 2019 to share a bit of Eastern culture with Dakar. It was held at the base of the Monument and was a chromatic spectacle of people and pigment. I later stripped out this young man and dropped in a landscape from Popenguine.
Tommy Hilfiger Harley
In advertising, branding is everything. Your look, your clothes, your style, define who you are and what you want to be. We spend billions of dollars a year on fashionable objects. It's expensive, and it's worth it.
The girl from Mali
There is such a thing as natural beauty. A person who needs no artificial additives to appear gorgeous. They just are. And when we meet these people, we feel immediately drawn to them for no apparent reason. We enjoy their company, we want to be seen with them. We miss them when they're gone.
