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10.06.2014

ART & DESIGN

Wale

“I have thousands of photos that are better than this one, but this is symbolic for me as it was my first real ‘industry’ event in NYC following college graduation. It was taken during Wale’s Mixtape About Nothing release party in 2008, following my internship at MTV News, where I wrote and produced Wale’s first national TV news story. I kept in touch with Dan Weisman, who was Wale’s manager at the time. He invited me to the event. From then on, I dropped the point and shoot and picked up an SLR. The rest is history.”