pic of the day: hamlet noir

a dramatic shot from a brief photo sesh yesterday with a young model in portland named CJ.

Wedding Season 2.0

Its wedding season again! Thats right last august I spent the last month of the summer shootin with my long time friend and photog extraordinnaire Jelani Memory (jelanimemory.blogspot.com)


I've learned alot over the past year, and having my new 5D is definitely helping me to propel to new skill levels. But I'll be busy processing the photos from this month's weddings for a little while so here's a couple throwbacks from last summer:

Lala Land

Here's a couple shots from a recent shoot in the backyard of the gorgeous Ms Drice's home in Long Island NY. For her first real "shoot" I think she did a spectacular job warming up to the camera and letting the beauty flow.

gettin ink done! a couple published works

Cool news: Last month I ended up having two photos selected for the "Schmap City Guide" in Both Los Angeles and Washington DC!

Check em out here I guess Flickr is good for something!

LA: link

DC: link

what football means to me (in HD)

check out this short video in full HD glory of Kwizera, the boys coach from Busanza as he speaks on what football means to his life.

a translation expert in kigali

Stephen Gatari was Play for Hope's translator in Kigali. He was sent to us by God..well

figuratively at least- Africa New Life Ministries, the activist church where we went to play with street kids every Monday, referred him to our group and he was such an asset to the team!

Not only assisting to preach to the hundreds of Rwandans crowding our clinics, he also went on national radio, in front of thousands of listeners. His english was amongtthe best around!

If you want to contact him for his services (his rates are the best around, seriously!) you can reach him by email at salig50@yahoo.com or by phone at (+250) 078 835 3283

Chillin with me at a bar next to the stadium sippin on some Fantas

Goofin off with a couple of the volunteers at the Kigali Hope Festival.

Check out this video from his radio interview

the play for hope tourney

The tourney @ amahoro stade was a smash success. Hundreds came out to support the 12 teams involved, and the kids played very well on the main stage of kigali's national stadium. Here's some of the highlight shots:

Kimisagara v. Rugunga Day 1

Day 1 opening match boys from Samuduha march around stadium

street boys from Busanza with Rwanda star striker Jimmy Gatete (in black), and Radio10's "DJ Shaka" (back left wearing button-up) on July 15, 2009

boys from Kanombe are psyched for their match on day 1! July 15, 2009

player from Gatenga scores against the u-20 boys from Kanombe

Coach Erasto from Kimisagara preps his team before the championship match vs Gatenga. July 16, 2009

sniffing glue to get by

It was an eye opening experience to say the least..last week our team traveled from Africa New Life's street children ministry program to visit a couple of the places where the children call home.

To aid with hunger pangs, many children on the street sniff glue. This bottle is used by the boys to escape their impoverished reality, while simultaneously harming their young growing bodies.

These three boys shown just outside the bushes they sleep in every night, located within a new expensive housing development.

This is the boy's home, all of their possessions amount to a few boxes inside tall bushes located surprisingly close to 3 story mansions just on the other side of the field where they fiind their shelter.