Super grateful . Slide 3&4 are crazy lol This brother felt moved by the music enough to start playin his trombone from the crowd mid song! Had to bring him up on stage! You canāt write this stuff man š
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In 2021, My camera broke. I felt sad.
Up until then, Unbeknownst to me, I had grown to believe my camera was my permission to exist in spaces, my permission to be seen and at various times in my life, my reason for being.
So I repaired it.
Then again in 2023, My camera broke. But I didnāt feel much.
The feelings I had about my relationship to my camera and photography hadnāt knowingly changed between 21ā and when it broke again in 23ā.
Despite believing I felt the same way, I never went out of my way to repair it.
2024 was my first full year since I was 11years old(2009), That I havenāt had a fully functioning camera.
Aside from reflecting on who am I in the moments I canāt capture, 2024 has been a year dedicated to Recognizing who Iām able to be, instead of just Remembering who I have been.
For the first time in a long time, My eyes belong to only me.
And with these eyes, Iāve seen more of myself.
I live more of my life through my voice, hands and ears now.
Conversing, Writing, Building and Listening(to music).
My camera doesnāt have the capacity to hold all of me, But joy does.
So hereās some of the forms that joy has shown itself this year.
Sidenote: Nigga I have been out of town at least once a month, every month this year. Being grown wild as hell cuz who letting me move around like this? I swear I was just a shorty, Time flies just as much as I do.