and again....

Ice Cream

Brighton Beach

She has a very special relationship with her bird.......

Meet Nikkie

The Parade was today and I had every intention to go.... It didn't happen, but I walked outside to go to the store and VOILA.   Puerto Rican Pride!!!

Grill Master

From Grill Master

This was one of the first warm days of the season. Chris is always cooking something on the grill, but today I had to take a closer look because it smelled delicious... I have to say he got skills, now I see why he is always the "grill master."

Brooklyn Childrens Museum

From brooklyn childrens museum

Similing Eyes

She was drying her nails next to me in the nail salon and I could not stop looking at her lashes, they were beautiful. She told me her secret but I'll never tell....

From lashes

Police Brutality

Sometimes the Police get a little over zealous, as we know. When they come on our block the neighbors usually will knock on my door, or I run out with my camera to make sure I put my flash in their face so things don't get too ugly. Well this time I was too late! They used his head to bash out the back window of this car.







They love to set examples, and I'm sure this is just the beginning of what lies ahead as our neighborhood is changing.

Natural Koncept

Boogie was hanging out with his friend JZ on the official first day of spring... they were nice enough to let me tag along and snap.

Brooklyn Blonde pt. 3

Meet Millie... I really enjoyed shooting her, because she was really happy to have her photo taken. I was in awe of how perfectly she applied her lipstick and was very happy with this shot of her, she has such a warm spirit. We were so busy talking I forgot to ask her why she was blonde.




This is Cherry, I saw her walking down the street and I ran to get her number. (so embarrassing) When she came to the house to shoot she was wearing so much make up she looked like a completely different person, and it threw me off. Not in a bad way, just not the fresh face that I remembered. She didn't finish her answer to why she's blonde..... "I've always been blonde..."




Shumaya came to a baby shower next door. She's not blonde, but she was giving me something really special with her hair color and her regal strength and beauty.




Erica..... she was a trooper, she let me make an attempt to dye her hair blonde, it didn't work but it made for a fun day!!

SEE FULL STORY HERE in TRACE Thank you Claude and Mikaela

More from "Brooklyn Blonde"

This is Sabrina and Justina. Meeting up with Sabrina was like getting initiated into a secret club. I went through tons of emailing and texting back and forth, answered many questions over the course of about a week, and I had never even met her. When I arrived I figured out why. I was immediately blown away by her strength first, then her obvious beauty..... and she brought her sister.

I spent the most time with them, and they gave me 100% of their energy. I walked through the neighborhood with she and her sister and saw how people reacted to them and how they responded. They bring so much grace, style, beauty and confidence demanding your respect.





At the end of the day it was really important for Sabrina to know that she would not be portrayed as "a dumb blonde." In my mind I was thinking that would be IMPOSSIBLE.

More to come.... thank you Claude and Mikaela see full story online at TRACE

Happy Birthday Ida

Today would have been my mom's 73rd birthday, everything about her that I thought was crazy, is who I am.. brutally honest and ever present! I shot this story for Trace last summer... an homage to my Mom.



This was the first blonde beauty I shot before the assignment... she had the exact shade I remembered my mom had.... I just asked to take her photo.



Nikita "I want to be different and outrageous. I want to stand out." and this was special because it reminded me of the mushroom cut but one side was shaved...



Shandi "I love being blonde because I love the attention." Although she was very skeptical of being photographed, she was amazing.



“Brooklyn Blonde”
Jenny Baptiste

In the mid 1970’s when my mom was in her 40’s she dyed her hair platinum blonde. For her, it was merely an outer expression of her personal style: bold, confident and eye-catching. This assignment was very personal as I feel every “Brooklyn Blonde” embraces the culture’s tradition of strong independent women that speak their mind and express themselves...........


more to come....

Thank you Claude and Mikaela

Hope4Haiti

My girls started a movement to generate funds to Haiti ASAP.. They made a proposal to their homeroom class which went over well in theory but no immediate action.

They became proactive.... "I feel so empowered and good that people actually cared that they want to do more!!" says Skye, the vision of the movement...

They enlisted the help of their best friends Sprigs and Erin to raise funds.

and they are not done..

Bradford Young

From the set of Pariah, (Directed by Dee Rees) meet Director of Photography Bradford Young an amazing talent on the rise!! I met him while working on the set of Restless City (Directed by Andrew Dosunmu)

Both films coming soon, get ready to see the magic!!

Black and White

I was on an job today really focused and out of the corner of my eye I saw him!!



He was ready!

Jimmy Cray

You had to be there.... It was one of those moments when you say is this really happening?