Keela @ Point Dume
Keela and I have been working together for a few years and I we wanted to do something fun and outdoors, so we decided to head out to Malibu to shoot something editorial. We had two looks, one fashion another fitness. She made the grey two piece out of a body suit she already had and wore an elegant dress on the beach to create contrast between location and styling. Keela has been doing personal training for a few years and is about to start offering services through Keys by Kee fitness. She’s an amazing training so look her up if you’re ready to tighten up and live a healthy lifestyle.
Janelle Williams at Point Dume
Early in June 2026 I connected with Janelle to shoot a test shoot on the beach in Malibu, California. We went to Point Dume beach to create a series of images in her yellow swim suit. I chose the rocky location because it feels like the end of the earth meeting the water. We started a bit late and ended up with some over head light. I brought a RZ67 I had just acquired, to test, as well as shooting on the canon r6 mark 2 I was using for digital images. The weather was perfect and I stayed around a little after the shoot to hike around Point Dume.
These are the images we shot on the RZ67. I shot them on Lucky 200 color film from ArtHouse film lab. the colors had some funky shifts, and the flash wasn’t always triggering the way it does when I use my RZ67 proii
Testing the Mamiya 1000dtl
Recently, I purchased a box of film cameras and accessories to test and sale the best working equipment to people looking to get started in film photography or for people looking for new cameras to expand their practice and get a new feel. One of the cameras I was most excited about was the Mamiya 1000dtl, a 35 mm camera with manual exposure control and dual through the lens metering ( that’s what del means). Unfortunately it was moldy and smelled of mildew. I spent some time deep cleaning the lens which had mold growing on it and cleaning the body. then took it out for a spin. I shot the shots around Burbank, California. The meter never started working so I think I am going to just keep it but there’s more cameras available in the shop
Bella on film- 2020
Isabella is one of my favorite people to work with. She now works in marine conservation and can frequently be found swimming with sharks off the coast of Florida. I have more to say but I’m doing this from my phone so I’ll come back to this.
Nyah in NYC
Nyah in NYC

One of my favorite things to do is go to people houses and take photos of them. That was the theme and core idea of my first book Love and lust, intimate portraits in people’s homes. People being comfortable being themselves.
The first text Nyah sent me was “Hiya it’s Nyah.” I instantly liked her even more cause that’s a great greeting. I was a little late to the shoot cause I schlept a 50 lb light and stand, a 40lb back pack with my film cameras, and my pelican with my camera and laptop from Brooklyn to the upper west side via train. I was really tryna be a New Yorker and get the real feel. I probably should’ve bought gloves but we can’t always be prepared, sometimes we gotta go with the flow and narrowly avert frost bite. When I finally got to her place it was the cutest apartment I’ve been to in Manhattan. She had great decore including a lot of art she made herself. One of the first things I noticed was her video games so I promptly challenged her to Mario Kart. More on that later.
In this post I’m only sharing the film photos. Prior to the shoot, and another reason I was late, I took a trip to Photodom to get some good ol Porta 400 or Kodak good 200, 120 film. To my dismay they were out of both but they did have Cinestill 400d. I hadn’t shot any since i ordered from their Kickstarter. Never got the 220 but they sent the extra rolls. I want to try it in 4x5 sheets next. Anyway, I shot one roll with Shay and one with Nyah. When I got home from New York, I got super sick after I walked my dog a mile in the rain like a fool. The day after I recovered I decided I had to develop the film that day because I got some bad news and any time I’m fucked up I like to do art to calm down. During the fires in LA this year I packed my go bag and developed to rolls so they had enough time to dry if we needed to evacuate. I’m weird I know but it helps. Those pics were fire too, so yeah. I was too thirsty to see what I’d shot so instead of getting some new chems I used my kinda old Cinestill c41 developer that I hadn’t used since Jan 8th type shit. The chems were super dirty and kind of scared the film but Nyah liked it so I love it.
I’m still considering teaching film photo, lighting, and developing your own film. If you’re interested send me a message on IG or an email so I can force myself to start the classes. Would love to meet and develop with more creatives and build a bit of community to help each other explore and actualize our ideas.
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
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