Photographer Ismail “Calligrafist” Sayeed. Photo Credit: Eric Salvary/Get Fit Radio TV

Photographer, Ismail “Calligrafist” Sayeed checked in with Scoop B Radio podcast’s Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson. Press Play Below To Listen!

If you read articles on the internet then you’ve seen his work. Photographer Ismail “Calligrafist” Sayeed has photographed the latest and greatest.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama, Dwyane Wade, Jay-Z, Fabolous, DJ Khaled, P.Diddy and many more have been photographed under the keen lens of Calligrafist.

His photography is a bridge between fashion, lifestyle, hip hop and culture.

He’s everywhere!  Literally!

Homeboy’s work has appeared in reputable publications such as Billboard, ESPN, Bleacher Report, HBO, CBS Sports, Complex, Catch Restaurant, Reebok, Nike, Adidas, New York Fashion Week, DJ USA, Hot 97, Power 105.1, S.O.B.’s, Tidal, BET, VIBE, Mass Appeal, The Shade Room, Hype Beast, The Source Magazine, REVOLT, RESPECT Magazine, Bleu Magazine and Elliot Wilson and Brian ‘B.Dot” Miller’s Rap Radar.

All of that said…guess what? He’s not comfortable! 

“The kind of person that I am, I just want to do more,” Calligraist told RESPECT Magazine today by phone.

“This is just the beginning.” 

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Harlem, NY bred and globally influenced, Calligrafist actually didn’t aspire to be a photographer. In fact, he fell in love with the art of graffiti and calligraphy; hence the nickname, ‘Calligrafist.’

A man of faith, the devout Muslim is college educated at Jamia Madinatul Uloom University in Trinidad & Tobago, where he studied Quranic Studies and Arabic reading and writing.

Calligrafist acknowledges seasoned hip hop photographers like Johnny Nunez and Jonathan Mannion  who have undoubtedly paved the way for on-the rise photographers such as himself. Calligrafist emphasizes that he’s glad to sit at the table with them and eat, while also gaining their respect for his skin in the game. “It’s genuinely cool to have intimate conversations with them,” he said.

“It’s more humbling that I am able to have direct access to people that I look up to like them and someone like Lenny S., DJ Clark Kent, Emory Jones, that have a name in the industry, people that have a place in the culture, for people to acknowledge me for more my work; that’s an honor. That’s more humbling. But it moves me to want to do more.”

For more information on Calligrafist and his photographic/art movement, visit www.calligrafistphotography.com and scroll up and press play to listen to our chat on Scoop B Radio! 

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CBS Sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel and RESPECT Magazine’s Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson. Photo Credit: Ismael Sayeed/Calligrafist Photography

CBS Sports’ Greg Gumbel details to Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson why he is his biggest critic. Press Play Below To Listen!

In the broadcasting game since 1973, CBS Sports’ Greg Gumbel is a household name and recognizable face during CBS Sports’ NFL broadcasts and during the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament.

With all of that experience many would think that he’s arrived and needs no critique. To the contrary, however, Gumbel says he has stuck to advice that he got years ago. “You know I think that from day one, I wish I could remember who told me, but they said: ‘go back and listen to yourself,’” Greg Gumbel told me while on Scoop B Radio. “And I still do it these days.”

Gumbel has seen tours of duty at Chicago’s WMAQ-TV, ESPN, the Madison Square Garden Network, CBS Sports, NBC Sports and, now, again at CBS.

“I’ll do a football game on Sunday and I will watch the game on Monday and there’s nothing in there that surprises me usually. But once in awhile, I’ll realize I’m using this crutch phrase or I’m  leaning on this a little too much and I say ‘this’ and I’m unaware of it. But watching things like that can teach you about yourself and you can learn things that other people either don’t see or won’t tell you.”

Best advice through this whole critique process Mr. Gumbel? “With everything else you are your own harshest critic,” he said.

Gumbel says that this anecdote even translates to the football field. “It makes me think of Vince Wilfork,” he said. “He told me that when he played with the Patriots, his wife would sit in the stands and text him at halftime things like: ‘nice tackle baby.'”

Moral of the story? “There’s always somebody watching!”

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