The fashion moment is everything. It’s that je ne sais quoi that drives men and women to an image, a look, an energy that is expressed through style, through attitude and profile. The fashion moment is when the fates align and the image transcends and comes alive.

Ohio-born designed Michael McCollom began his career in New York as design director of the ISAIA NYC collection and was named one of the “Designers...

Kool Keith, Hollywood

Labtekwon, Hollywood

Drit & Bank, Baltimore

DJ Spooky, Hollywood

Mos Def, Hollywood

Dog Fashion Disco, Hollywood

In 1989, Carlos Batts went to see Fugazi. It was his first time. He took his brand new Pentax K 1000 camera with him. Just 16 at the time, his destiny was clear. He was going to photograph the artists, the bands, the fans, the stage. He was going for his...

Quiet as kept, the annual African American Day Parade takes place in Harlem every second Sunday in September attracting nearly a million people every year. From the fire, police, and correction departments to the veterans associations and grand lodges, from the Boys and Girls Scouts to the fraternities and sororities, the step and drill teams, the African American Day Parade brings together a wide array of groups that do not necessarily share the same beliefs but put aside their differences to come together as one.

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Culprit, 2006

Room of the Ninja Turtles, 2003

Imagine a photograph. Hold it close in your mind. Hold it in the space where you can feel and sense without ever speaking a word. Allow the image to vibrate, to express a rhythm all its own, to reveal within itself a sound, an energy that becomes expressed through the senses without ever being translated into words. That experience is known as synesthesia, meaning “union of senses”.

It was...

Rick and I carried Pancho into Doctor Alverez’s Clinica. Pancho had turned purple by then, the basepipe still clutched firmly in his hands. The problem was, what with the spasms and all, Pancho couldn’t find his mouth, but was also hitting his forehead and spilling the Coke on the floor, and endangering the pipe itself. Pancho was bogeying the pipe, and so Rick and I were getting antsy waiting for our turn.

“One’s period is when one is very young,” Diana Vreeland wrote in her memoirs, D.V., and in this way we can consider the way in which strong sensory experiences influence and shape our developing brains. For Eric Johnson, the combination of the car and the open road has been a motif that he has explored throughout his life in the form of the photograph.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Eric spent his formative years on...