JAS: PORTRAITS. San Pedro, CA, USA. March 30 - April 6, 2013.

JAS: PORTRAITS
solo exhibition
Piecelock70, 253 W 7th St, San Pedro, CA 90731 USA

Opening reception: Saturday March 30, 2013 from 12pm to 5pm

On View: April 1 - April 6, 10am to 5pm daily, plus 10am to 10pm Thursday April 4 for San Pedro Artwalk

A collection of portraits including images of some of my creative heroes, such as seminal street photographer Jamel Shabazz, and true-school Hip Hop artists Chubb Rock, Special Ed, Kwame and Dana Dane.  Also on view are street portraits of unknown but equally compelling subjects from Brooklyn to London to the Dominican Republic.

Available for purchase at the opening is a portrait of People Under The Stairs, in a limited numbered edition of 50, hand signed by the duo of Thes One and Double K themselves.

DJ sets, drinks and vintage arcade games at the opening.

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The Arcade Annual Art Print Show. Auckland, New Zealand. December 14-24, 2012.

The Arcade Annual Art Print Show
group exhibition
ARCADE, Auckland, New Zealand
December 14-24, 2012

Two of my photographs are featured in the 2012 edition of the annual group show at Auckland mainstay ARCADE, including the image on the flyer above, from the 2012 Blessing of the Animals on Olvera Street in Los Angeles.

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The Only Time I'm Here. AS220, Providence, RI, USA. November 3-24, 2012.

THE ONLY TIME I'M HERE
solo exhibition
AS220 Main Gallery, Providence, RI USA
November 3-24, 2012

We all know what it feels like to be in the right place at the right time.  The serendipity of things falling in to place just so, in a way that couldn’t happen later that day or right down the street, is a warm and fortunate happening.  This is what I look for when I’m shooting photos.

This exhibition at AS220 centers on some incidents in which I was in the right place at the right time to capture people, places and things that struck me as special.  The show’s title stems from this notion of fortunate presence, and also refers to the act of photography being one of the few times that I feel fully immersed in the moment.

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