I can remember vividly growing up in the suburbs of Cleveland. I had just purchased a new boom box with money from cutting lawns and raking leaves. My friend named Joe Mantey, who I knew well because alphabetically we were always somehow next to each other in grade school, said he was coming over with [...]
“I’ll go photo for photo with anybody in the world.” — Jonathan Mannion
Discovery is such a huge part of why I’ve always loved music, and back in 1991, my foundation was shaken by the discovery of dancehall. It was Supercat and Shabba Ranks that opened up that world to me. Back then, with no iTunes, I was left buying cassettes and CDs and believe me, I bought everything I [...]
I realized the amount of respect that I have for Nas while working with him yesterday. Typically I focus so hard on guiding emotion for the still images, as it’s normally for an album cover or magazine cover, that I often times don’t get to have in depth conversations on the day of the shoot. [...]
Behind the scenes of Jonathan Mannion’s shoot for the Bushmills’ “Since Way Back” ad campaign, which should be blanketing New York City this week.
Not for nothing: Though we prefer the refinement of a single malt Scotch, we have have been known to quench our thirst with a decent Whiskey on occasion.
After the jump: Maestro Knows | Episode 4: Estevan Oriol + Maestro Knows | NYC Edition: Jonathan Mannion
Thinking of one of my favorite places in the world I always mention Paris in my top 3. I have traveled to some incredible countries during my career (Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Trinidad, Jamaica, London) but I have some of the best memories about being in Paris. It just makes sense to me and always [...]
It’s rare that an artist changes the game so completely. I can remember only a few times in the last few years where all attention moved from whatever else was happening to acknowledge, admire and downright “jock” an artist… It has happened again… Drake has arrived onto the scene as a Legend and a Veteran [...]
We’re pretty sure this isn’t a new video, but it’s new to us. So there.
I had the unique pleasure of working with Gangstarr (GURU and DJ PREMIER) a number of years back as they released their 10 year anniversary album “Full Clip: A Decade of Gangstarr.” We shot somewhere near the Brooklyn / Queens border in an abandoned train tunnel. The photos to me represented all that Gangstarr stood [...]
