Directed by Jonathan Hanson
Edited by Al Morgan
Directed by Jonathan Hanson
Edited by Al Morgan
I’ve been working a lot with artist Jay Royale over the last year. There is something really powerful collaborating with other artists who do totally different work and yet there is connection in the process of creating our work.
He released a recent mixtape, The Crown Royale Mixtape, you can download and listen to for free here.
With a bottle of Crown and my camera, we shot for a couple hours around Baltimore and then headed back to my studio to shoot some portraits. At the very end of our shoot, Jay walked over and poured himself another glass of Crown, giving us the cover.
A few weeks back Jay and a few other members of our team hit the Baltimore streets to shoot this guerilla style video. Royale has a mixtape coming out soon and this video is quick sneak peek of whats to come. In about two weeks time, we will be dropping the official, Shoe Box Money video, debuting Jay’s first mixtape. You can check out Jay’s website here.
On Sunday I hit the studio with Jay Royale, an up and coming hip-hop artist in Baltimore. I’ve teamed up with him and the guys at On Que Records and have been working on a series of projects. In early December, we shot a video for a mixtape track, its currently being edited and will be released very soon. We met up for a quick portrait session before hitting the studio with Baltimore’s hiphop ambassador, Ogun (check his organization here). I can’t thing of a more inspring way to spend my Sunday than hitting the studio with Jay and Ogun, watching them make music that will move the city’s hiphop scene into a new direction.
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