Model: Morgan. Taken for black history month
I was browsing through Instagram when I saw a friend of mine posted this old tv. You know the ones with the turn knob, the antenna and shows in black and white? Yes…. Those one. I messaged her if I could borrow the TV for a shoot. (Hi….Shaniceeeee lol… Thank you……) She said yes. I went and got the TV because I had a lot of concepts in mind especially one in particular. I had this TV in my car riding around for about 2 months. Every time I was suppose to shoot something always come up. Either the model fell through, it was too cold, rainy or just bad timing. I started questioning myself thinking this tv idea will not work. My conscience kicked in because i’ve had this TV I borrowed for quite a while and can’t return it. But, I was so determined to shoot with it. I finally reached out to my Afro Centric, melanin popping friend, Morgan. It was last minute. She sent me what she had and I was like, “we’ll make it work.” We set a time for 10am on a Saturday. The Saturday morning 10am was non existence. I overslept. I woke up feeling bad especially seeing that Morgan had messaged me. For a moment I thought she would cancel. Nope, she did not. She still came through. What I had in mind couldn’t be done in my studio but because of all the delays with shooting with the TV I had no choice. I had no clue what i was going to do but we went for it. Then suddenly in the middle of the shoot this idea just came to mind. It was even better because it was February and Black History Month. There was no better way to incorporate the TV concept given the limitations. Thank You Shanice. Thank You Morgan.