And the winner is....

Hey guys,

it has been a minute since we have shared some any news on our recent project(s). 

I wanted to say thank you to the amazing team that assisted me on a recent campaign dear to my heart. I was blessed to team up with @theathletesfootusa and @melaniin.goddess by creating a visual campaign in support of their efforts against bullying. @theathletesfootusa & @melaniin.goddess are giving away two anti-bullying @reebokusa sneakers (designed by @melaniin.goddess )  two winners... @morrg_an & @fla_boy - Congrats 🎉🎊🎈 

Photographer @tarikcphoto
MUA: @moshoodat
Product Sponsor @reebokusa
Agency: @thecgirlinc

New Year Upgraded Me

 

At this moment I am still up at 3am trying to get my sleep cycle back to normal. Out of my 3 trips to California in the past 9 months, this one has been the hardest to get my sleep cycle back into sync. CURRENTLY I AM Living and sitting in this moment contemplating my next moves. Over the past few weeks on social media i have noticed something. Everyone seems to be on this "New Year New Me" bullshit. Honestly I love me. I will continue make my mistakes & learn from them. I will continue to be petty & sensitive but slowly in the process I will LEARN TO be more mindful of my thoughts and actions and be less reactive. I will continue to take shit to personally, but hopefully with each experience I will learn that not everything has to do with me, and its other peoples personal shit and I shouldn't internalize every SINGLE thing. I will continue to feel uncomfortable when it comes to dealing with confrontation, and hopefully with each confrontation I face this year I will strive to Be more clear, concise and direct. I will continue to make inappropriate jokes and be the sarcastic kid from Brooklyn that I have always been. Im more so on a "New Year Upgraded Me" tip. More like a iphone with a few new features & a new camera. 

Unapologetically

- Tarik

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Creative Process

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2016 has been one of the most life changing, illuminating years of my life. Filled with many learning experiences, corner stones, struggles, travels & revelations.

 

In the past 11 months, I moved into my first office (My own office), struggled to make ends meet, LANDED amazing business deals, HAD business deals gone awry, dated a lot, FELL IN LOVE WITH CALIFORNIA, FELL IN LOVE WITH MYSELF,argued a lot & learned so much about myself (Self-Discovery has been illuminating). I often found myself feeling like the Mr Crabs Meme. In the midst of all of this, I felt like I'd lost my creative voice.

My personal projects took a back seat to appeal to a certain "look"; to a appeal to a certain "audience" that's less "urban". After a year of playing the game I decided to return to shooting more fulfilling personal and engaging pieces. 

"feeling like the Mr Crabs Meme"

2 Months ago, I Started to piece together a few concepts and nothing really stuck. That's what when noticed, I was dealing with a form of creators block -so to speak. I started asking myself, "what do I want to say, where do i want to go creatively right now." Last Tuesday, I made the choice to start breaking this "creative block."

"Simply SAY SOMETHING"

I called up a good friend of mine & fellow creative Moxiie. We'd always had amazing chemistry and I knew shooting something on the fly with her would spark that [creative] fire. In Sharing the result of what we created The question remains... "Whats next?" who knows; but, keep it posted here for more rants & random blogs about my journey. My team has been begging me to blog for MONTHS and hopefully this new medium will show you guys a different side of me & my creative process. Cheers to blog post #1

Love & Light

- Tarik