Kwaku Alston by Patricia Lanza

Kwaku has photographed some of the most popular faces of our time—from Oscar and Grammy winners to Barack Obama and the Initial Household. His lots of and numerous clients incorporate The New York Times Journal, Time and Essence Journal, international brand names like Amgen, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, Goal and Verizon, and media giants this sort of as Universal Studios, Disney, Amazon, Sony Songs and ESPN. His portraits have a fresh, unaffected truly feel, and however they celebrate the extraordinariness of his subjects, striking a stability among present-day documentary pictures and common superstar portraiture.

Nowadays he bases himself out of both equally New York and Los Angeles and his photos have appeared on almost everything from film posters to the handles of greatest-providing books to advertising spreads for intercontinental brands this sort of as Apple and HBO.

Kwaku has also partnered with a wide variety of charities and nonprofits, together with the