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This makes me happy! h/t Scrill Kosby

“If you want me to kiss your ass, then you had to put it in my contract.” Janet Hubert

So I get a call from my little cousin Precious Jules earlier saying, I think I see you daughter on a Citgo ad. I’m like no way. Minutes later I had a screen shot in my inbox. Upon opening, I was like OMG! Look at my baby snaggle toothed baby on a Citgo “Fueling Good” […]

Here’s a quick snapshot from a senior portrait session that I held this weekend out & about downtown Detroit with Breya Bogs. Breya is currently a graduating senior from Detroit’s Crockett high school & she will be a freshman this fall at Eastern Michigan University. My session with Breya ended much more smoothly than my […]

This has been a very busy & trying week but I’m still here. To help decompress from all my mini drama, I’ve been working in my gardens cleaning, clearing & pruning for the summer blooms. In the midst of pruning one of my Rose of Sharon bushes, I discovered a robin’s nest. I got so […]

This past weekend, I visited New York’s Museum of Modern Art & fell in love in the photography gallery. I always fall in love in their portrait gallery so this is really no new news! What made me fall during my most recent visit was Carrie Mae Weems’ “From Here I Saw What Happened and […]

Here’s a quick snapshot from a senior portrait session that I held this weekend in my studio space with Laureal Hamilton-Jackson. Laureal is currently a graduating senior from Detroit’s Cass Technical high school & she will be a freshman this fall at Michigan State University. Our session was fun filled as we mostly laughed our […]

Thanks to the Shadow & Act blog, I was hipped to a Detroit based documentary film titled “Grown in Detroit” directed by Dutch  film makers Mascha and Manfred Poppenk. After viewing the trailer S&A posted I was sucked in & wanted to know more about the girls & farming program at the Catherine Ferguson Academy […]

Guess who was recently interviewed by the Kiss My Black Ads blog. Me mofo! Check it out here! In other good news: – One of my head shot clients just informed me that she got called for an HBO show audition! I love making people look great! – I’m doing my first shoot in my […]

In the last year the Getty Flickr collection has encountered some major growth in terms of number of contributors & image content. I see this growth as a good & bad situation. It’s good when my monthly royalty checks are deposited & bad when I have to wait for months to have newly submitted images […]