KAWAI MATTHEWS is an internationally published and award-winning photographer specializing in portraiture for editorial, entertainment marketing & advertising.  Her ability to capture the depth of a subject, while delivering quality, awe-inspiring imagery is uncanny and unmatched. Shooting unforgettable moments of flair, confidence, substance and honesty in her subjects, her heavyweight portfolio includes some of today’s most celebrated entertainers.  

Her power list includes: Idris Elba, Roselyn Sanchez, Kanye West, Taraji P. Henson, Pamela Anderson, Al Sharpton, Michael Rapaport, Derek Luke, Angela Bassett, Kerry Washington, Queen Latifah, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Kat Von D and many more.  She’s also been featured and made appearances on the following television networks: WeTV, BET and VH1.  

Matthews has been published in various magazines, including: Essence, Vibe, Glamour, Ebony, The Source, Rolling Out and more.  Commercial clients include: NBC Universal, LA Times, Interscope Records, PETA, ABFF, Nike and Allied Integrated Marketing.

As much about her art as she is about her business, she heads Air Philosophy, LLC (www.airphilosophy.com), a Los Angeles-based powerhouse creative studio, offering video production solutions & photography for a diverse range of companies and brands.  

Matthews also allocates a hefty portion of her time to teaching photography, digital art and entrepreneurship, placing community outreach and mentorship high on her list of priorities.  Check out her teaching schedule at the Los Angeles Center of Photography: https://lacphoto.org/people/kawai-matthews/

 

Resources:

Kawai Matthews

Helmut Newton

Gordon Parks

Los Angeles Center of Photography - LA Street Week

 

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Ali LeRoi is a photographer as well as the Emmy Award-winning co-creator/executive producer/writer of the critically acclaimed comedy “Everybody Hates Chris,” a series inspired by the childhood experiences of comedian Chris Rock. He is a Golden Globe nominee, a 2007 NAACP Image Award winner for best writer in a comedy series, as well as a winner of the 2007 AFI TV Program of the Year Award.

LeRoi served as a producer and writer on “The Chris Rock Show,” for which he won an Emmy, a Cable Ace Award, and received five Emmy Award nominations. He is an NAACP Awards Best Director nominee for his work on Everybody Hates Chris, and has directed segments for the “77th Annual Academy Awards,” as well as for the “Orlando Jones Show.”

Major motion picture credits include producing and co-writing “Head of State” and “Down to Earth,” as well as producing cult-favorite, “Pootie Tang.”

Photography for him is meditation, memory, and connection. Taking time to consider what something is. Why something is. Who someone is. For LeRoi photography freezes the fractions of sections in between all of the things he sees and does and holds still all of the places and people he passes by and gives him a moment to consider them, inspect them, appreciate them, and remember them. 

While he has a focus on people, and exploring the breadth of their condition and their ability to connect to the world around them, as well as their ability to connect with him, he also ventures into architecture as abstract, and it’s collision as form, as still life. Much of his work grows out of a strongly held sense of solitude and a desire to connect to the things around him. He has no hard and fast rules about purity or constraints around editing an image. He does what he feel. And show it. He assumes that his body of work will take on a character as it grows, as he is it’s singular filter.

Originally from Chicago, LeRoi currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

 

Resources:

Ali Leroi

Eli Reed

 

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Dotan Saguy was born in a small kibbutz five miles south of Israel’s Lebanese border. He grew-up in a diverse working class Parisian suburb, lived in Lower Manhattan during 9/11 and moved to Los Angeles in 2003.

In 2015 Dotan decided to focus on his lifelong passion for photography after a successful career as a high-tech entrepreneur.

Since then Dotan attended the Eddie Adams Workshop, the Missouri Photo Workshop and studied photojournalism at Santa Monica College.

Dotan's work has been published by National Geographic, PDN, Leica Fotografie International, ABC News, has been exhibited in several galleries across Los Angeles and has been awarded 1st place photo story from the nationwide Journalism Association of Community Colleges in 2016 and an honorable mention in the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Award 2016.

Dotan is currently working on several ground-breaking long term projects including an in-depth photo essay about the culture of Venice Beach and a photo documentary about the journey of people coming out of homelessness. Dotan lives in West Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

 

Resources:

Dotan Saguy

Alex Webb

 Los Angeles Center for Photography

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Mark Bennington is a New York-based portrait and commercial photographer who also make personal projects a big part of what he does. His creative life began as a professional actor in theater and television, but after some major life changes he turned his attention to the camera. Since then he has been making a career for himself behind the camera instead of in front of it. His initially started as a headshot photographer and began to explore more portrait and documentary work. His new book Living the Dream: The Life of a Bollywood Actor which reveals the behind the scene world of the film industry in India. It is being released this month.

 

Resources:

Mark Bennington

http://www.markbennington.com

 

Manjarii Sharma

http://manjarisharma.com

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