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Daughters of the horse-leech, thy tempest out-thunders me.

source: Israel Zangwill, Without Prejudice, 1899. This description, at the time meant to be as absurd a set of charges and demands as could be placed in a straw woman’s mouth, today reads like a beautiful manifesto.

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A monumental shift is brewing from the digital to the organic, from the instantaneous to the developed, from the event to the actual process. I finally understood the genius of my younger brother khalikallah.

All those long solitary nights in Harlem shooting what society had deemed outcasts and vagrants, forced him, in rather an aggressive way, into mastering his craft and doing so without the influence of others; a sort of self-inflicted solitary confinement.

The concept of slowing down and relating to subjects, converting strangers into familiar faces seemed to be absent from the digital landscape. The new-age “point, shoot, post” mentality seems to be lacking something visceral. In a way it only goes skin deep, never penetrating the core. Grazing the surface, rarely delving into the vast unknown.

How many have no knowledge of the greats; Araki, Moriyama, Eggleston, Meyerowitz, Shabazz, Davidson, Klein, Bresson, Gilden the list goes on and on but is somewhat finite. Icons aren’t plentiful, they’re staples in an industry and linchpins to compare all others to. All took great risks and allowed themselves to be consumed by the world instead of a self-indulgent desire to own it all. They weren’t collectors of artifacts but rather historians documenting moments, the viewer being permitted to bare witness.

To go there one must go inward and get familiar with the most primal of urges. It’s a dangerous game, one that many never return back from the same way they entered.

In a way it’s a return to the womb. Digital birthed me, but it’s film that’ll supervise my upbringing.

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Check out the video I made with ryantchun to show off the iloveuglynetwork x jansport collection. 

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I see life in angles, in lines of perspective – the slow turn of the head, the blink of an eye, subtle glimpses of magic – other folk might pass by. Cameras help me translate, interpret and understand what I see. It’s a simple act that keeps me grinnin’. I never set out to become anything in particular, only to live creatively and push the scope of my experience for adventure and for passion. They still all mean something to me, same as most anyone with dreams.…

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cam is basically my third eye

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