Urban Gentlemen | JH Photo

This weeks favorite sights and sounds from the web.

photography: Stockland Martel, Smartbook 2013

video: Rap Quotes, Street Art Project by Jay Shells<

“Rap Quotes” /a> from ANIMALNewYork.com on Vimeo.

music: North Highlands, Steady Steady

Last week I worked with Jonathan H. from Modelogic. We shot on location in Baltimore at Mclain and Wiesand, a custom furniture designer/fabricator. A owe a huge thank you to them for allowing me to use their amazing space.

I had a solid group of people working with me on set. Special thanks to Lexi Martinez for makeup, Julie Bent for wardrobe, Andrea Mitchel Gains for hair and Jacqueline Schlossman for an extra hand.

07/11 Bureau of Trade…

Last week while I was in San Francisco I met up with Bureau of Trade‘s founder and CEO, Michael Moskowitz, for a portrait shoot. I discovered Bureau of Trade a few months back and I love what the start up is doing.

Bureau of Trade is a shopping and discovery site for men, blending a curated vision of art and style into an e-commerce site where rarities from across the world are displayed and sold through the company at affordable prices. The BUREAU is dedicated in helping men shape and present a more complete and compelling portrait of themselves.

Michael’s world travels, work in foreign policy and his time at IDEO as a designer have all contributed to the vision of the company.

* Images are available for licensing.

17/01 Sonny Reddz…

On Friday, Ryan from On Que Records and I worked with hiphop musician, Sonny Reddz from Gritty Gang. The above image is an out take from the video we shot for him. The video will be available soon. Gritty Gang has a performance this Thursday at Sonar in Baltimore.

10/01 Jay Royale, mixtape session…

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.