‘Contact High’ a visual history of Hip-Hop exhibition at the Annenberg Museum in Los Angeles 2019

DIOR Campaign 2019 photographed on the streets of London

‘Extraordinary People who wear Fiorentini & Baker Boots’ campaign. In September 2018 the series of 30 portraits exhibited in Milan Gallery during Fashion Week

Series of photo shoots for Interview Magazine, Ghetto Gastro, Banks and more

I spend a week in Paris photographing the Christian Dior collection designed by their new creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri. I photographed everything from the atelier to the fittings, backstage, the show, celebrities, black and white images shot in my documentary ‘fly on the wall’ style. DiorTV made a short piece about me.

The Hip Hop Revolution Exhibition opens in April at the Museum of the City of New York . My photographs of hip hop artists and the MashUp together with Martha Cooper and Joe Conzo’s legendary photos of break dancers, graffiti artists and the early years of the culture. Amazing press and TV coverage from NY1, ABC morning news, the NY Times and more.

The organizers of Photoville ask me to curate their opening night slide show: ‘Down & Dirty’ my choices of the best music photography from disco to present day, 3 months research, images sourced from more than 100 photographers, a newspaper and exhibition in one of the shipping container galleries. People love the images, everyone from Johnny Cash to Tupac Shakur. The outside of the double stacked container is an 18′ high painted MashUp by legendary artists Cey Adams and Queen Andrea. Seen from the BQE it looks amazing.

I start shooting for the new British style, music and culture magazine Jocks & Nerds. My first shoot is jazz singer Jose James, then this cover of DJ Nature, Dapper Dan, GoHardBoyz, VivaLasVegas, and many more artists, musicians, designers, rebels. I am now the New York editor.

Dashwood Books publish ‘El Hoyo Maravilla’ my photographs of the East LA gang that I shot in 1983.

My book ‘The Breaks Stylin’ & Profilin’ 1982-1990′ is published with PowerHouse Books. It features full page photos of hip hop legends like Run DMC, Salt n’ Pepa, Ice Cube, Booogie Down Productions KRS1 and Scott La Rock, Bambaataa, LL Cool J, EPMD and many more.

Shooting celebrities, actors, politicians, sports people. I photograph the ‘Glamour Woman of the Year’ portraits: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Olympic skater Bonnie Blair, Tennis player Martina Navratilova, NJ Governor Christie Todd Whitman,  Playwright Anne Deavere Smith and more. Actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Cosby, Sandra Bernhard, authors Elmore Leonard, David Foster Wallace, Erica Jong, sports stars Derek Jeter, Jackie Joiner, Yao Ming,  and classical musicians, TV stars, opera singers, kids for Nickelodeon and Sesame Street, they all come through the studio.

St Martins Press publish a book of my hip hop photos with text by Bill Adler and lyrics by the artists. We throw our own launch party at SOB’s with open mike rappers. We are interviewed by Ed Lover and Dr Dre on ‘Yo MTV Raps’.

I photographed the first Hip Hop show,”New York City Rap”, to come to London for Melody Maker. I shot DJ Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Mixer D.S.T, The Rock Steady Crew, Futura 2000, Dondi, Ramelzee, Fab 5 Freddy and Rammellzee It changed my life. I moved to New York in 1983.

The Face was a brilliant music and style magazine. I was a listed contributor from Issue One for which I photographed Dexy’s Midnight Runners, PIL, Mods in Streatham and Blitz kids.

My first album cover shoot for a new punk band called The Police. The record is called ‘Outlandos d’Amour.