PLUROCO

A few months ago I was asked to shoot an interesting concept for an article for HYPERTRASH MAGAZINE. The article itself is an analysis of the hypersexualization of women in the auto industry, and asks the question, “Why is sex only used to sell cars to CIS straight men?”

On August 3, my job (Wikileaf) held a cannabis grower’s competition, and brought in local Seattle rap group Kung Foo Grip to perform for us afterwards. The show was LIVE. KFG and the crowd were feeding off of each other’s energy until the very end of the performance, and the pictures show it. I can’t wait to shoot them again.

This shoot was fun, because it was new.

So a few weeks ago, Sheck Wes came out with a full length album, Mudboy. Naturally, it was a bop, and I added it to my morning routine. One morning, on my walk to work, I noticed a construction site, and a huge pile of fresh, loose dirt.

Live Sheck Wes, Bitch I’m Dying Sheck Wes

Live Sheck Wes, Bitch I’m dying Sheck Wes

I looked down at my phone to see what this song was, because it slapped. HARD. And then before I noticed the name of the song (it was LiveSheckWes DieSheckWes, go figure) I saw the album artwork.

I put up a little poll on my Instagram story to try and gauge if anyone would be interested in a Mudboy inspired shoot, and a picture of the dirt pile. Ken hit me back almost immediately saying she would do it nude. Shooting nude was something new to the both of us. But we both wanted to try it, and felt more comfortable doing it with each other than with some strangers. So at 6am, we went to the dirt pile, started shooting, and got to take maybe 5 pictures before an employee of the construction company told us we couldn’t be on the dirt.

Damn.

Instead, we took a slight detour down the block to a local college campus and shot all around the quad. It seems risky at first, but you have to remember that this was 6:30am on a college campus on a SUNDAY, so we weren’t too worried about being spotted.

These are the results of the shoot, and we’re both very proud of them.

We’re just two creatives being creative.

In February 2018, Will, Joe and I took a week long trip to Hong Kong. 5 months later, I’m finally getting around to posting the pictures. A week definitely wasn’t long enough for me to capture every shot that I wanted, but that certainly didn’t stop me from trying. Here are some of my favorite shots from the trip.

This is a spot that the homie Lex and I have been talking about trying to find for a while. Then, one weekend, we found ourselves hanging out with some extra time before our next commitment for the day. So I put on my Sherlock Holmes hat, did some investigating (asked the @StreetMeetWA group chat) and five minutes later, we were on our way.

I got to shoot with Kitty at Wikileaf x Heylo event at the Winston House. She turned the heat way up for these shots.

My day job is in the cannabis industry, which obviously has its perks. One of them is that I get to attend basically every cool cannabis event in Seattle, because we only sponsor the best events. My favorite event we’ve put together so far was an influencer smoke and photography party that we threw at The Winston House here in Seattle. The Winston House is Washington’s first cannabis friendly Air BnB. While I was there I got to shoot with cannabis influencer and advocate, Cannabess. Here are some of my favorite shots from our time at the house.