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Normani for Who What Wear’s cover story, Ph. by Ahmad Barber + Donte Maurice

Styling by Lauren Eggertsen

Hair by Ashanti Lation

Makeup by Alexander Echeverri

Art direction by Amy Armani

Designer:Ally Quirk

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Iman for Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, styled by Ayumi Perry and shot by Ahmad Barber and Donté Maurice

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Zendaya by Ahmad Barber & Donte Maurice for Essence magazine, 2020

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Jonathan Majors ph. by Ahmad Barber and Donté Maurice for Men’s Health (2022)

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Zendaya, photographed by AB + DM and styled by Law Roach for Essence Magazine November/December 2020

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GLEN POWELL Men's Health — Ahmad Barber & Donté Maurice (2023)

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GLEN POWELL 2023 | Ahmad Barber & Donté Maurice ph. for Men's Health

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JONATHAN MAJORS ph. by Ahmad Barber and Donté Maurice for Men's Health (2022)

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Alan Ritchson || 📸 Ahmad Barber & Donté Maurice

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Iman Abdulmajid by Ahmad Barber for Haper's Bazaar Arabia Magazine March 2024

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Hanifa SS22

 Ph. by Ahmad Barber and Donte Maurice

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Another kind of gentrification

For years, this had been a quiet street. With his grocery store, Alfred had supplied the neighborhood with delicacies. And at lunchtime, his guests could sit in the sun on the street. But the peace and quiet was over now. A shisha bar had opened across the street. And that was the end of the peacefulness. The guests drove up in their high-powered luxury cars, accelerated again briefly to 60 km/h, braked with squealing tires, let the engines roar. From 11:00. Until 03:00. And each time Alfred wondered how a young lad in his mid-20s could afford a car for 200,000 euros.

His guests remained loyal to Alfred to a large extent. However, the lunchtime business was slackening more and more. The cheese store down the street had already disappeared. One of the lads had opened a store there selling protein products. And the hairdresser's store had become a Turkish barber's store. When Alfred sat at the window of his apartment above the store in the evening and watched the shisha bar full of hatred, he could see more than clearly that business was being conducted at the tables that was undoubtedly not legal. Alfred had already sent the police once, and they had come. Nothing had happened. But since then, the only policemen patrolling the street were obviously of Arab origin. And they were good customers for protein powder. More and more men with enormous muscles could be seen in the street.

At some point, Alfred had begun to adjust to the circumstances. He sold only beef and no more meat. The young men loved expensive, high-quality beef. Nevertheless, one evening Alfred's mind was blown. It was a hot summer evening. Alfred tried to sleep with the window open. But in the bar, the terrace was crowded. All the windows were open. The music was playing at maximum volume. Alfred put on something and entered the bar, full of rage. Two absurdly muscular policemen were standing at the bar, drinking coffee and talking to the no less muscular bartender, who, however, was wearing only a very skimpy tank top instead of a uniform. Alfred yelled at the policemen whether they were not planning to do anything about this disturbance of the peace. While one of the policemen explained to him that one should have understanding for the young people on such a summer evening, the other one waved the manager over. The manager smiled, invited Alfred to a separee and offered him a cup of tea and a shisha. In life, Alfred would not have smoked a shisha. But a tea was a good idea. And after a sip of tea, he somehow also felt like having a shisha. And then his eyes went black.

Fuck, he had overdone it again with the weights. Ahmad must have fainted for a moment. He took a sip of water and looked at his watch. Almost 04:00. Time to finish the workout. He had to go to the wholesale market, he definitely wanted to be back home before the sunrise prayer. He dried his sweat, put on his work overalls and headed for his van. And as he did so, he ran through his shopping list again in his head. He definitely needed pita bread, sucuk and ayran. Fruits and vegetables and so on. Apple tea, too, probably. And somewhere there was also the order from his boss for the shisha bar opposite his Turkish supermarket.

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KEKE PALMER for Time Magazine (Sep. 2022) 📸 Ahmad Barber & Donté Maurice

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May 1, 2023, By Ahmad Barber and Donte Maurice.

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Xolo Maridueña ©Ahmad Barber & Donté Maurice (AB + DM) // GQ Mexico

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Millie Bobby Brown is named Glamour’s Woman of the Year. Photographed by Ahmad Barber & Donte Maurice