In 2018 I was working, a lot. I was shooting often and working my part time job for Christina. Im sure I was traveling a lot as well. I was living in Toluca Lake with Jess and I was extremely serious about my spiritual growth at this point. I had friends, community, work, travel, peace and purpose. I was three years in to my LA journey and you couldn’t tell me that I wasn’t destined for greatness. I was mentoring, leading with Putney and Nat Geo, constantly being referred for photo and video work, assisting at Palm Springs Photo Festival, shooting for City Ballet of Los Angeles, LA Works, BET, VH1, assisting underwater photographer Brett Stanely, and the list goes on. It was prime time for me. I also did a lot of free work and this event you see in these images was one of them. I had recently began a partnership with LA Travel Magazine and I was ecstatic because I knew travel was where I really wanted to be, even if it meant working for free. The years I was in LA before everything shut down were extremely abundant and the industries I worked in were flowing. Fast forward to now and there is so much uncertainty in photography and filmimaking. I know so many people who have pivoted as well as completely moved out of Los Angeles and started a new life elsewhere. I commend that, I do, but my soul at this point in time refuses for me to through in the towel. There is still so much in my realm that I want to explore and share and giving it up is not in the cards for me. I still want to shoot, direct, design and implement projects and produce programming for kids and young adults. My old work is an ode to my dedication and desire to keep going even in a world that is always changing and blatantly creating technologies that have the potential to wipe me out, so what.