Beauty shots with Ezenwa

I had the pleasure of photographing the beautiful and talented Ezenwa recently with the help of Johanna.

I styled her in things I pulled from d.bleu.dazzled to give her a shine.

These are some of my favorite beauty shots I’ve done. I had an outside retoucher retouch for the first time in a long time and I like the results

We even took a few test shots to submit to Fenty Beauty since I had been asked to bid a job there and I wanted to get some practice in doing clean beauty.

You can follow her on Instagram at https://instagram.com/ezenwailabor

A week in Spain. Ibiza Formentera and Barcelona.

Recently I took a trip to Spain to capture my friends engagement. We stayed at Bless Hotel, which had beautiful views from the room and the rough top, as well as a infinity pool with a view of the ocean and beach. I spent most of my time there by the beach listening to the waves and enjoying the optionality of clothing. The first day I stayed mostly in and around the hotel. I walked through the neighborhood in es Cana and looked for souvenirs for Nai, explored playa beach and saw a little kiddie carnival. I started to suspect that I wasn’t in the party part of Ibiza.




I headed back to the beach behind the hotel and rested before the scout the next day



The proposal was going to be at Hotel Petunia, so I head over there to scout the day before this was my favorite place on the trip beautiful accommodations delicious food and amazing drinks to go along with a spectacular view I got there around 5 and stayed til around sunset at 10pm. The bartender let me know that I indeed was not in the party part of town. He advised me to go to San Antonio and visit Amnesia if I wanted to have s great time at the disco. I was on my fourth drink that had passion fruit and pop rocks so I decided not to go club, but I did take one for the road


The next day we returned to Petunia and They got engaged! It was beautiful I made some friends while I was waiting for them to arrive and ended up having a great time even though a taxi issue had the couple running behind schedule.

The next day we took the Ibiza Boat Club to Formentera and bicycled 6 miles to a beautiful beach and swam and chilled. When we got bike to the boat they had a fire and saxophonist who played music while we boated and partied all the way back to the port then we headed into old town Ibiza also know as ibizatown. The setting is so charming there’s a port and hundreds of shops all together along winding walking alleys with restaurants in between. The mix off food and incense from the shops was captivating. We ended up having dinner at a place outside of a set of shops that looked like an old fort.

The last day was spent in Barcelona where I immediately went to the Picasso Museum, which I busted my first time in Spain. I went specifically to get one of the striped shirts I wanted and passed on the last time. Got there just before closing but I got it!







I was planning to sleep because I had an early flight but then my friend said they were going to the restaurant/club that our boat buddies from Ireland suggest. The music at Carpe Diem was great and we ended up club hopping to a few places along the way. I ended up getting home 3 hours before my flight so I packed my bag drank some coffee and went to the airport.



Was a great reset and I got some great photos.





Ibiza on 120

Ibiza Formenta and Barcelona digital photos.

iPhone photos from Spain.

Alicia Roxas at chrisp.studio

I recently got to work with model / poet Alicia Roxas on a personal project. We shot pieces designed by Destiney Bleu and Andre Emery. We’d been talking about shooting for a while and she had just finished releasing her work out program Curve. I shot a little bit of film and some digital plus a cool video I shared on Instagram. These are the shots I took with my RZ67. I developed and scanned all the film at my studio. If you ever need a great place to shoot and create check out chrisp.studio

Set Stills, the making of Andscape’s Starkeisha

I had the pleasure of capturing the process of creating the Hulu/Andscape film for writer and Director Mo Mcrae. Over the 7 days of shooting we went from the desert, to a office park, to a huge warehouse studio where they created another world, and finished in a mirrored box. The lead actress Dom Chanel was able to channel so many emotions in her acting debut. She’s an experienced performer which she shows in every dance scene. We also got to work with legendary actress Vanessa Bell Calloway.

The days were long and super busy. I was doing video and photos, so it was difficult toting things around but I was getting really great footage and photos because the locations and lighting were amazing. The hardest day was the dance scene near the building with the crane a lot of moving parts and coordination. Seeing playback from the first day had everyone excited.

The last scene on the first day was one of the most intense scenes to shoot. The wind was picking up and whiping everything on set around as they rolled the final take. Dom dropped to her knees with a single tear that rolled down her cheek. It was a powerful and impactful way to finish her first day as a star in a film.

I learned a lot about what needs to be done to prepare a fight scene and how much detail goes into preparing for visual effects. I spent a lot of time talking to Nick who did the effects we discussed their process and I got to have a one on one with the fight coordinator. We didn’t fight I just interviewed him about what the camera sees and how to make fights feel real.

We shot the final portion a few months after shooting the first pieces, which gave them time to build an amazing set piece. The mirrored room really created a striking mind bending moment.

Here’s the bts video I filmed.

If you haven’t seen it go watch

Harpist Madison Calley Press Photos

Madison Calley was a wonderful subject to work with. She had a natural ease and grace. This was the first time I’d ever had to load and unload a harp, it’s quite a task, that Madison does for every performance. Fortunately there’s a roll up garage access at my studio. While we shot, I got to hear some of her beautiful music and learned about some of her recent musical releases. I lit the shots to look like an old Hollywood glamorous headshot. Photos from this shoot appeared in a feature about her on the Grammy’s website after her recent performance with Beyoncé.

Steph in red for Love & Lust.

I think this was my first shoot with Stephanie. During the shoot my flash trigger stopped working so I used the modeling light as my key light. The warm glow from the profoto modeling light captured on daylight film really adds some mood. We were shooting for my Love & Lust photo series, these pages are frequently mentioned as favorites by collectors who purchased the book.