THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO BET ON YOURSELF! DREAMS COME TRUE! JUST SHOT MY VERY FIRST MAGAZINE COVER W/ @maximmag JULY/AUG ISSUE! 8 PAGE SPREAD, MOMMA WE MADE HISTORY! I Been working my entire career for a moment like this. I just became the first ETHNIC photographer to photograph a MAXIM cover. My very first magazine cover! WOW! I cannot thank @saweetie enough for trusting me with this HISTORICAL opportunity. Power of thy tongue is real! I truly hope this inspires you to follow yo dreams cause I come from nothing!!!! I truly hope this opens the door for more black creatives! I’ve been told I’ll never land a cover & man was they wrong! Thank you @maximmag for exclusively having me photograph your July/Aug issue
Thank you @jstayready_@bryonjavar@mugopus on the glam/styling!
Thank you @pgsilver for the BTS video on the way.
Thank you @stefanvleming for being my key lighting tech
Thank you @thirdeye_fam for booking location
Thank you @mrmaxgousse@iammonicapayne@whitneyharp for producing this
& again thank you @saweetie 🌹❄️
Maxim magazine July/Aug issue OUT NOW! photographed by @brandonalmengo
Very grateful for this highlight. I come from nothing so this means EVERYTHING! Thanks to my fam over at @complex for highlighting my work next to all these talented creatives. The best image makers out right now link in bio.
This is what happens when you bet on yourself. JUST PHOTOGRAPHED A MAGAZINE COVER W/ @rubyrose FOR @glamouruk 🤯🔥 DREAMS COME TRUE. Thanks for trusting me with this opportunity. 🤎
Mua by @chrisamore_
Hair by @thejesjewel
Styling by @bradgoreski assisted by @daniela_viviana
Photographed by me 📸
Family is the only place LOVE doesn’t need permission.
No matter how far I go in life, I will always represent where I’m from! The food, the music, the lifestyle the culture runs deep in my blood 🩸
In a world that’s always changing fast, family always stays!!!
I’m honored to share these photos I took of Mi Familia in the #DominicanRepublic 🇩🇴 instead of staying in punta Cana or any of the tourist areas, we stayed in #Santiago where my family is from un campo en Jacagua.
Seeing the house we spent our summers in, visiting our grandparents grave, and reconnecting with family members we haven’t seen in over 20 years was something money can’t buy! Priceless
I pray we made our grandparents proud on this trip coming together because when everything breaks, family holds what’s left and I pray we’re still holding onto what’s left of our family and keeping traditions alive.
My grandmother pushed out 14 children. All 14 with my grandfather, from The land, the acres & the bloodline they left behind as long as I’m alive I’ll continue to keep our last name alive! ❤️
