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Took my brother out for some portraits a little bit ago. He was my first sitter in my "year of portraits".
"What is one of your favorite things about yourself?"
My sensitivity. The depth through which I can feel. It feels like a blessing and a curse sometimes but it’s what makes me me.
(3/3)
"How would you live differently if you could never die?"
"I would put myself in death-defying danger every day to help people that are victims to natural disaster, violence, and imprisonment."
Her - “He liked me and I...I don’t know...we fell so hard and then we got scared and stopped.”
“Why’d you stop?”
Her - “Ask him, he pulled away first.”
“Why’d you pull away?”
Him - “Because it was so intense.”
(1/2)
“So I went back home, I created an online platform called Project •Tribe•, which inspires women all over the world to step into their full selves and become more aware through the symbol of the head wrap. I teach women how to make head wraps out of this really colorful, beautiful African fabric. Millions of people started joining this project and all this media came after me in Rio. So then I thought ‘This is something interesting but I don’t want to let this own me, nothing owns me’. So I went to the United States to learn business skills, because I don’t have business skills, I have people skills. So I come to learn how I can make more of an impact for women like me who were never taught in school how to be independent and authentic. You’re always taught how to follow the rules and be down here. The system is designed to make you serve in a bad way. But before I finished doing that this film company came to me and said ‘We’re thinking of doing this documentary and we want you’. So I say ‘Okay, what is this about?’ and they say ‘It’s about your roots. It’s called Brazil DNA Africa.’ Basically they test your DNA and find out exactly where you are from in Africa. And I always wanted to know so I say okay and they give me the test…and when they tell me the results they say ‘You come from the tribe in Nigeria that makes the head wraps you’ve been teaching people to do.’ Then they say ‘Guess what? We’re taking you back to your motherland doing a documentary about the whole thing’.”
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“I was with the Downtown Streets Team a month and I got promoted to the green shirt, which is a team lead. After 4 months I got my blue shirt, which means I’m not part of the managerial team. Now I’m trying to reach out to companies to see if they want to donate to the Downtown Streets organization. I talked to Google and told the guy there my goals. I won the award for leadership for 2016. I just want to keep going. I’m homeless and I give to the homeless because that’s what make me happy. And you know what? I’m starting to feel like everything is coming together.”
“The truth is…I wouldn’t be able to do any of this without Brooke. She went to nutrition school for the last 2 years so she’s perfectly set up to help me. The community has been so supportive too. Over 600 people have given to my youcaring website to help me beat this cancer.”
(3/5)
“Are there any specific things you’re focusing on in your growth?”
“Decolonizing my mind. I immigrated from the Philippines when I was 7. My path has been one of being indoctrinated with western society and the ‘American dream’. Now I’m at a point in my life of trying to learn who I really am. To move past the things that have made me not love myself.”
“What’s the biggest inhibitor of your self-love?”
“Patriarchy. How men treat the women in my community. Growing up I learned implicitly that women were...mmm...white men...that come into my country have an expectation. Whether they’re coming from a consensual conversation or something else, it’s affecting our women. It has affected me, it’s affecting my mother. And not all in bad ways. But there’s an objectification.”
“I feel you. Thanks so much for sharing. Your vulnerability is beautiful.”
(2/2)
“I’m from everywhere. My mom’s heritage is pretty strictly European. She’s Swedish, and Finnish, and German. We’re pretty sure there’s some other things thrown in there. Both of her parents were adopted. On my dad’s side, his dad is English and Scottish. His mom is Spanish, and Portuguese. I was born in San Francisco. I was a tiny human in Marin. The Marin headlands are still the place that feel most like home in the world.”
(1/3)
“What’s your dream for you life?”
“I want to spread my happiness to other people.”
“What’s happiness to you?”
“Making other people happy!”
“I play music in a group called La Gente and we do a mix of everything I was raised in. Colombian cumbia, you know Afro-Colombian folkloric music. Got some salsa in there. Of course, we got some bay area hip-hop. And some of that psychedelic rock because I was raised on Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix. All that because that’s big here in San Francisco. And fuse all that with some champeta, merengue, dancehall, and soca. We sing in Spanish, in English, in Portuguese, in Patois, a little bit of Arabic.”
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See them play at La Placita Grand Opening Block Party
“How do you feel on a day to day basis?”
“When I’m not thinking about cancer this has shown me how much support I have around me. Even you taking my hand like this and seeing that there’s people who want me to share my light with the world. The YouCaring campaign has given me that. I can face this the way I want to do it."
(3/7)
Few more of Helly at the Winter Lights display at Canary Wharf, London.
Taken with an 85mm and no flash.
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“What is one of your favorite things about him?”
Her: “How sweet he is. He’s been meeting my family and visiting my Grandma. He bought her a box of chocolates. He went out of his way to give her those. He schlepped them all the way from New York. It was really sweet.”
“What’s your favorite thing about her?”
Him: “She’s really smart. One of the smartest people I know. She can do anything. Super talented and brilliant.”
(2/2)
“I’m a connector. I have a really strong ability to travel between worlds and instigate things. My degree is in anthropology and I’ve always had a deep interest in culture. We’re all on a similar mission. The more we can connect and help each other, the more we can achieve that collective mission.”
From the upcoming show How Does Your PEACE Fit?
Kamila zaczęła stawać przed moim aparatem jakieś 13-14 lat temu. Dzisiaj nadal robię Jej zdjęcia. Jako moja żona nie ma za bardzo wyjścia. :)
Przed światłem studyjnym staje rzadko i niechętnie, dlatego cieszę się z każdego momentu, w którym udaje mi się zatrzymać ją przed moim aparatem.
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FujiFilm X-T30 + Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 + światło zastane
“Granny, what’s one of the things you’re proudest about the way Lisa turned out?”
“That she always has an idea about what she wants to do in her life, and she knows how to make that happen.”
“Mom, what’s one of your favorite things about Granny?”
“Granny always took care of everybody starting with the family and extending out into the community. That set my behavioral and moral compass for life.”
“What was she like when you were little?”
“She was a hellion. She took no tea for the fever. If anything wasn’t in order she was going to put it in order. She didn’t like seeing people done wrong or seeing the community messed up, she wanted everyone treated fairly with an opportunity to reach their full potential.”
(3/4)
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"Lately I've been looking at the other side of things. We tend to look at the world with only our eyes, but I think it’s important to take a step back and look at things through other people’s eyes. I’m working on that every day."
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“How did you discover these depths within yourself? I’d imagine it was a journey…”
“I would say that it’s a beginning-less journey and a beginning-less life and most likely with the amplification of multiple births and multiple lifetimes all adding up to this one moment of exquisite eternal now. In many ways I feel like that this life in particular, and there might be multiple ones happening simultaneously, but in this one in particular as Djamilla I’ve had the fortune and talent to live a very graceful scenario with the opportunities to travel and see the world and partake in sacred elements and temples and monasteries. The preciousness of experiencing the eternal essence of my soul and not just being fixed to one particular expression."
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“I’ve been around the block. From Illinois to Seattle to Hawaii. I came around here to LA…and I’ve had a ball. I’m not planning on stopping anytime soon.”
"What excites you, Jimmy?"
"My passion is flowers. I've been creating flower gardens for the past 20 years."
"Tell me a little bit about your flower gardens.”
“Well, I’ll tell ya real quick. My mother hung herself when I was 3 years old over here in Noe Valley and my grandfather shot his brains out and my sister drank herself to death, so I opened up my third eye to the third and fourth dimension of the spiritual world. I can channel spirits and talk to the dead and the angels tell me what they want me to do. Twenty five years ago, the angels told me ‘Do these gardens.’ So I did the gardens, and then I did the whole street by myself. I actually made it in the shape of a cross. I had 40 planters going up and down Haight, all the way from Central to Stanyan. I had all these beautiful gardens for everybody. Everybody. Living and not living. The gardens are a form of healing energy to bring peace and comfort to people. Not so much maybe who the garden is dedicated to, but it reminds them of somebody. It’s like going to the cemetery, you see all the nice things people do— Well, you go to one of my gardens and it makes you feel something about a loved one that’s not with you or is in the spirit world."
“Realizing your dreams is simple. You just gotta do em. Everything is a dream. This is a dream. It’s a dream come true talking to you.”
“What’s special to you about Vietnamese food?”
“In my country we use fish sauce, very good. In USA they put ketchup on everything. When western food use rosemary we use ginger. Also, China has been involved in my country for more than 1,000 years so we know a little from Chinese cooking. We know how to make the baguette. In Vietnam they have all types of food: sour, bitter, sweet. Very strong flavors. They make it by love. In the middle of Vietnam is very cold so people like to eat very spicy food because it’s warms them up. In the north of Vietnam they make pho.”
(4/4)
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“These days I try to have a real Buddhist outlook on the whole city because I’m really grateful I’m still here and that I’m raising two kids. My kids are able to go to school here and exist here. We haven’t been squeezed out, we’re really really lucky.”
“What are you kids’ names?”
“Luciano and Stella.”
“What’s your favorite part of being a dad?”
“Just watching them grow up in the neighborhood. They’re really smart creative kids and it’s exciting to watch them absorb all this. It’s not an easy job being a parent, but it’s got its rewards.”
“People ask us why don’t we deliver and we tested that out. We had people come in a sit at the dinner table with the cook, we had people come pick the food up and leave, we had food delivered to people by someone the cook knew, and finally we had the food delivered by someone unrelated. In those 4 scenarios the ratings of the food went down the further they were removed from the human being who made it. When you’re just getting stuff delivered you’re comparing it to everything else you get delivered. Which are products made by corporations to make your taste buds feel good. They’re designed to make your tastebuds feel good. Your home cook are never going to win the battle for your tastebuds, that’s a scientific battle that’s incredibly competitive. What home cooks have won over is our hearts and emotions. If you ask someone the best meal they’ve ever had I guarantee you it’s going to be a home cooked meal.”
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