Photo Story // Spectrum

Lauren O'Jea and I have been doing a lot of beauty shoots lately. It was funny how it happened. We both for completely different reasons needed to revamp our portfolios. She needed more natural and editoral looks and I just needed to show that I could do beauty shots period. Lauren and I started pumping out photos and along the way I started to love doing beauty shoots. This shoot is really different for me. We picked five colors and Lauren did a corresponding editoral look for each color. My sweetheart Alexandria was our model for the day. I love working with her. She really is the sweetest girl and I adore her mother as well. We somehow managed to get this whole shoot done in two and a half hours. I still have no idea how we pulled that off.

Alexandria // The Network // Facebook // Twitter

Lauren O'Jea // Website // Facebook

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Behind the Scenes // Timeflies + PLNDR

I had the pleasure of shooting Timeflies for a lookbook for PLNDR in New York City last week. PLNDR is Karmaloop's extremely popular flash sale website. Danielle of popular fashion blog We Wore What was the stylist. Mandy was my lovely assistant for the day who went above and beyond the call of duty. It was such a fun whirlwind of a day and I was so lucky to be able to photograph Cal and Rez. They are going to blow up so check them out now before they make it big. A big thanks goes out to Heather for asking me to be a part of this shoot.

I can't wait to show everyone the photos but in the meantime here are some behind the scenes photos. Photos from Heather's, Timeflies', and my Instagrams.

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Photo Story // Alexandria Serafini

Last month I shot the absolutely gorgeous Alexandria Serafini (Maggie INC). She is this six foot tall 17 year old fantastic girl who is smart and funny and I pretty much fell in love with her. I adore this girl so much. She and her mother, "Mamafini", came to Providence to work with my beauty squad of makeup artist Lauren O'Jea, hair stylist Jeannine "J9" Calia, and wardrobe stylist Jasmine Souza working with the clothing of Joseph Aaron Segal. We had so much fun getting ready for this shoot. Lauren, Jeannine, and the new addition of Jasmine are so amazing to work with and I always produce my best work with them. We shot at The Steel Yard in Providence, RI, this amazing educational and studio space.

I first saw Alexandria at January 2012's Style Week. She wore the finale dress for Jonathan Joseph Peters. She looked absolutely amazing and when I found out she was 16 (she turned 17 a week after our photo shoot), I was stunned. I was so happy that she wanted to do this photo shoot with me. I love how one second she can be giving me the sickest pose I've ever seen and then be giggling and calling something "cray". I forget that she is just a teenager but I can tell that she will have a successful career ahead of her.

Can we talk about the beauty team for a second? I wanted natural disaster. Jeannine made a hair tornado. If you forgot Jeannine was on Hair Battle Spectacular 2 for fantasy hair styles. I love it when she makes hair pieces for my shoots. It definitely took this shoot to the next level. I asked Lauren simple yet sculptural makeup. I love the eyebrows she made for this shoot. She made them on the spot and it was definitely the look I was going for. Jasmine came on as stylist at last minute. She made one quick text message to Joe Segal and we picked up the clothing later that day. This was her first time styling but she did such an amazing job with Joe's clothing and pieces she owned that I definitely want her to style more of my shoots. She knows what I want without me even having to say it. It does helps that she's my best friend and knows pretty much everything I like (and everything I hate). I need to thank Nicolas Bauta and the people of Steel Yard for letting us shoot there. Nic was a fan of the shoot from the second I told him about it and I appreciate him so much for his help.

This is probably my favorite shoot so far since I've been shooting. I love how we all came together for this shoot and I'm so proud of the job everyone did. I love that get to work with these insanely talented people.

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Vintage Trouble and Van Hunt @ Fete

Last Saturday I shot Vintage Trouble and Van Hunt at Fete Music in Providence. Vintage Trouble put on an amazing show. I hear they will be on the Jimmy Kimmel show April 24th. They were so energetic and fun and I can't wait to listen to more of their music.

Van Hunt, the headliner of the night, was soulful and cool. I loved that the bass player played a double bass and I get excited every time I see a female drummer. The show that night as a whole was amazing and I was glad I was there to photograph it.

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Photo Story // Ben Franklin

A few weeks ago I shot Massachusetts based hip hop musician Ben Franklin. I love shooting promo shots for musicians. I feel like I don't get to do it enough. He wanted it to be different from the usual rapper photo shoots. I treated this like any of my model shoots even though he has never had a photo shoot before. We had a lot of fun running around shooting and we even shot a video for my "stripped" series. I can't wait to see more from Ben Franklin in the future!

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