New Cover: Tyler Perry for Ebony Magazine

Tyler Perry
Photographed for Ebony Magazine at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, GA

176 Lives

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
176 Lives Stolen
176 Matches

Thank you all for making 2019 the best year of my life and career so far. This career takes a village, and I feel so lucky to go through this with each and every one of you.

Here’s to 2020, and speaking of 2020, for the love of everything… VOTE!

Queen & Slim for Empire Magazine

Lena Waithe, Melina Matsoukas, Jodie Turner-Smith & Daniel Kaluuya for Empire Magazine

Billy Dee Williams for Rolling Stone

Billy Dee Williams
Photographed for Rolling Stone in Los Angeles, CA

New Cover: Florence Pugh for TheWrap

Florence Pugh
Photographed for TheWrap

French Montana for I Am An Immigrant

French Montana photographed for I Am An Immigrant

Cynthia Erivo for Deadline

Cynthia Erivo
Photographed for Deadline
Story: Antonia Blythe
Hair: Coree Moreno
Makeup: Terrell Mullin
Stylist: Ade Samuel

Personal Project: Gibbon Conservation Center

This is part of an ongoing personal project photographing non-human species in the same way I photograph humans. The goal is for viewers to find that empathy towards each subject by seeing a sense of their own humanity in each face, an attempt at setting aside that sense of the “other.”

Pepper, 8 years old, is a northern white-cheeked gibbon living at the Gibbon Conservation Center, where she was born and raised. Currently, they care for 38 gibbons, encompassing 5 of the 20 different extant species.

Northern white-cheeked gibbons are critically endangered in Vietnam and Laos due to widespread hunting and logging of their habitat, and they are most likely extinct in southern Yunnan, China. The GCC participates in a successful captive breeding program to preserve the species from becoming extinct.

At age 8, Pepper is nearing the end of her color change, and she more and more resembles her mother, Ricky, in both her appearance and behavior. Just like her mother, Pepper took up the role of leading the gibbons' song at the GCC. She sings for only about 10-15 minutes, and after she gets everyone going, she just sits back, relaxes, and finishes her meal. She is also known to manipulate objects in her enclosure such as removing clips and loosening nuts and bolts.

Thank you kindly, Gabi Skollar (Director, GCC), for sharing your love, care and knowledge with us and others.

Actors on Actors for Variety

Actors on Actors and Emmy Contenders, 2019
Photographed for Variety

Creative Director: Robert Festino
Photo Director: Jennifer Dorn
Photo Editor: Richard Maltz

Thank you all. <3

David Crosby for WSJ

David Crosby for The Wall Street Journal
Photographed at his home in Santa Ynez, CA

Gad Elmaleh for The Hollywood Reporter

Gad Elmaleh for The Hollywood Reporter
Photographed at The Friend Bar in Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Tim Meadows for Hour Detroit

Tim Meadows for Hour Detroit
Photographed in Hollywood, CA

Alfonso Cuarón for Variety

Alfonso Cuarón for Variety
Photographed at the Chateau Marmont the morning after the 91st Academy Awards

Kevin Durant, Rich Kleiman & Jay Williams for ESPN Magazine

Kevin Durant, Rich Kleiman & Jay Williams
Photographed for ESPN Magazine
Shot in San Francisco, CA

Hook ‘em!

Mahershala Ali & Viggo Mortensen

Mahershala Ali & Viggo Mortensen
Photographed at the Roosevelt Hotel

Happy New Year!

A million thanks to everyone who made the work of 2018 possible. Couldn’t be done without each and every one of you.

Here’s to 2019, friends.

Covers: Voice of America for T Magazine

Jeremy O. Harris & Ishmael Reed

James McBride & Kevin Young

Jericho Brown & George C. Wolfe

Voice of America
4 Covers, 34 subjects, 1 day at the Brooklyn Historical Society
Photographed for T Magazine’s 2018 Holiday Issue
Creative Direction by Boots Riley
Styled by Carlos Nazario
Set Design by Theresa Rivera
Production by Nikkia Moulterie
Retouching by Feather Creative

Lupita Nyong'o and Michael B. Jordan

Lupita Nyong’o and Michael B. Jordan for Deadline
Photographed at Disney Studios in Burbank, CA

Hasan Minhaj for The Hollywood Reporter

Hasan Minhaj for The Hollywood Reporter
Photographed in Los Angeles, California