We recently collaborated with actress and comedian Anjelah Johnson to produce photographs for her new website. Anjelah is an extremly talented individual and it’s a pleasure to call her a friend. We first collaborated with Anjelah last year for our ON THE GO photo series. That project can be seen here.

The rest of the photographs from our recent shoot can be seen on Anjelah’s newly launched site here.

Devin the Dude, Jean Grae and others put it down last weekend at the Scoot Inn. Big thank you to Matt Sonzala for putting together a great show.

Matt Sonzala

Eyeris

Staci Russell

Invinsible

Jean Grae

Devin The Dude

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I recently completed my latest documentary. This recent vision focuses on the Destiny by Design junior high after-school program. Originally, I planned to create a photo-only project documenting the Fall 08 semester, but this time around I chose to merge my photo work with video to better communicate this amazing story. I was blessed to have the opportunity to be involved with this program yet again and single handedly witnessed the inspiration music is capable of providing.

Destiny by Design, in cooperation with Citizen Schools, focuses on culture and career development opportunities within hip-hop. Teaming with volunteers, the Destiny by Design kids were able to utilize their creativity to produce, write, and record their own song.

The Destiny by Design media project can be viewed online at…

http://destinybydesignproject.com

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For those who are unaware. Rap legend Chad Butler aka. Pimp C passed away today. There are no exact details at this time. It’s truly another loss for Hip-Hop and Texas.

I was fortunate enough to capture and document a number of PIMP C and UGK performances over the years and even had plans of a future photo project which included him and other artists. He always kept it real with me and I have always appreciated it.

REST IN PEACE PIMP C… UGK FOR LIFE.

My latest photo assignment subject was Famous of Chamillitary. Famous has been around the Texas underground music scene for a number of years and now he’s about to come out strong with the backing of Chamillitary. New images of Famous were needed so they could be incorporated in his new Myspace profile I would be designing.

My team and I did the shoot in San Antonio the day following the Dress Code Party he had hosted the night before. It was raining hard all over San Antonio and much of Texas that week, but we were still able to continue with the schedueled shoot and get the the results we were after.

You can see Famous’s Myspace here.

Bravo Hip-Hop Special, a Bauer Publishing company, is Germany’s largest hip-hop magazine. A few months ago I was contacted by the editor in regards to a photograph that I had taken of Chamillionaire at The 98.5 Beat Bash in San Antonio last summer. They wanted to run my photograph as a two page spread for an upcoming issue in which they were going to be doing a story on Cham and all of his major label success. Since the magazine is only available overseas, the good people at Bauer sent me over a few copies for my portfolio.

I spent the portion of my weekend covering the Party 104.9 Car Show and Concert at Reliant Arena in Houston. There were alot of people checking out the numerous cars in the show and many who were their to see the concert portion of the event. Concert performers included Pitbull, Trae, Devin The Dude, Rob G, Slim Thug, Mike Jones, Huey, and more. Cindy Hill and the entire 104.9 staff did an excellent job.

My photographs from the event can be seen on the LM Events page.

I recently completed a new design project for Houston rapper Rob G. The project titled, “Reppin’ My Block The Mixtape” , is a legit (legal) mixtape from Rob G and Latium that will be distributed nationwide. The mixtape is mixed and hosted by DJ Rapid Ric.

Rob G has been nominated for the categories of “Patiently Waiting: Texas” and “Best Mixtape/Street Album” at the 2007 Ozone Magazine Awards. His debut album, The Inaguration will be out this fall on Latium / Universal Records.

For this recent assignment, my team and I traveled to Kileen, Texas to meet up with Texas rap veteran Scarface and rap group/label Green City. We were there to shoot press, promotional and album packaging images for thier upcoming album release on SMC/Universal Records. Despite the on and off rain weather, we were able to find enough time for our schedueled shoot.

The press image I shot was for The Source Magazine “Off The Radar” story about the rap group. It’s currently in the May issue of the magazine with Kimora Lee Simmons on the cover.