Reebok by Pyer Moss - Collection 4
New Retouching Work | Photographed by Shikeith
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It’s been a banner year already, but I never thought I’d get to see this happen. I’ve admired Pyer Moss for several years now, so getting to work on this campaign was surreal. Easily some of the most eclectic art I’ve gotten to put stylus to tablet on.
Much love to everyone involved. More to come.
_From the archives_2018
It’s interesting to see how your perspective shifts over the years. Back then, I never would have chosen this image as a select. Shadows cutting into areas that feel important; obstructed gaze. But while exploring projects of the past, this image just called out at me. The mystery of it just locked me in this state of suspense, like waiting for a dissonant chord to resolve.
It’s also interesting to see how my post-production style has evolved. I used my custom Kodak Vision3 500T profile to get a deep, saturated print feel. Mimicked a softer magazine/heavy OLPF texture as well. Don’t let me figure out a halation model in Photoshop lol.
Anyway, here’s my Sunday night nerd out. Love to everyone involved with this shoot.
Today I spent my day celebrating my father’s 61st year of life.
Much of what I consider my personal growth in my adulthood is hinged on my relationship with my dad. My father is nothing short of the most caring, hardworking and gracious man I’ve ever known. My life observations came from his practice of the same. He carries a patience I can only hope to adopt; he embodies a strength I know I’ll always be chasing.
Life teaches you not just what you know, but why. I always knew growing up who my father was as a person; how good he was and how he always had my best interest at heart. But we didn’t always connect and see eye to eye. Perhaps it was the times, the interests, the life experience. Regardless, the gap was a point of contention for me personally.
But then life—time— does what it does. It teaches. It allowed me to see my father as a person, for once. A person navigating this life for the first time, just as I was, only a little further down the road. Over the past several years, it’s been my honor to watch and accompany him as we both shifted and adapted to this life in major ways. I’ve had some of my favorite conversations in life with my father, sitting on the couch at my parents’ home with a cup of tea in hand. We’ve talked about growing up, hardships, relationships, faith, hopes and dreams, living, dying.
It is now that I finally feel I understand my father. And rest assured, love is not bound to understanding. But I do believe it is the thing that can turn a hill into a mountain. After years of feeling like I was just out of reach, I’m there.
To all of the hills that become mountains,
Happy birthday Dad
“BUY SELL TRADE”
Dir. by Gabriel Cuillier
Color by 🙋🏾♂️
This was such a splendid story to grade. The first of many projects Gabriel and I have worked on together and it holds a special place in my heart. It’s been making the rounds at various screenings and I’m so excited that people will get to see it here this weekend at Filmland Arkansas.
Much love to my brother @gabrielcuillier and everyone involved in creating this beautiful story.
Spectres
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Not a thing went according to plan. And yet @tri_top_ completely made the shoot. It doesn’t look like it here, but she quite literally weathered the storm.
