Text by Shanell Verandez, Copyright 2022 . Photography by Tony Ward, Copyright 2022 . Assistant to Photographer: Anthony Colagreco . Creative Director: KVaughn . A Musical Journey . Hola, My name is Shanell and I am a “Jane of All Trades and Master of None”. I have dabbled in almost every Artistic, Academic, Athletic and … Read more
Text by Megan McGory, Copyright 2022 . Essence . So, what am I up to these days? Sexually, of course. Who am I as a woman, a lover…someone who knows herself in a way that is shaped by my past. This question is deep and substantial, but let’s focus on the present. The satisfaction … Read more
Text by Kemo Chen, Copyright 2021 . All Men Are Poets . I never met a man who wasn’t a poet. All of us are inside. There are feelings, images, furies wanting to emerge, awaiting a creative spark that sets them afire. I found that spark after years of suppressing it, afraid of saying what … Read more
Text by Riza Oliva . Sex And The City . Before Netflix, Hulu and HBO Max, I would turn on my T.V. and watch a group of bold and promiscuous women taking over the Big Apple doing things that men would have been praised for. Instead women in society receive negativity and backlash for … Read more
. LEIF SKOOGFORS INTERVIEW: . TW: When did you first realize your vocation would be to become a photojournalist? Who or what influences in your life early on led you down this path? LS: The weekly arrival of LIFE magazine, in those days a respected and worldly periodical showed me the world. I … Read more