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Sub Culture
For the longest time it was always just me myself and my brain in Boston. I would go from place to place shooting photos and looking for rooftops but I never had anyone to venture with.
Through Instagram, about five or so months ago, I discovered the sub culture of Boston photographers.
This, to me, was like opening a room with tons of doors. Doors on the left. Doors on the right. Older doors. Youth filled doors. Creative doors. Doors with a bunch of bad followers. It's just how it went.
So I did a bit of investigation and stumbled upon a kid who I now would consider a mentor for me. This is partially hard to come by since I only look up to people who are famous in my eyes and are out and about shaking culture and shifting worlds.
But my dude Drew seemed like he knew what he was doing.
I was out and about in the city just chilling with my friend Hudson and I saw that Drew was shooting around in the city. I hit him up on IG and said lets shoot.
We met up a little while later and he brought along his two friends, Nick and Jacqlyn.
The four of us hit a china town roof (don't go here just because you saw it on this blog and you think you're some urban explorer if you aren't) and luckily enough, Hudson had a colored smoke bomb.
We sat on the edge of the roof and just talked about life for a while. I had never met any of them and i was so stoked to finally find people in boston with cameras.
Drew is the type of kid who has been everywhere, seen everything, and knows how things work.
When he was 15 he toured for two months with Waka Flocka as his official photographer. Not to mention the fact that he just spent the last few weekends traveling with Rae Sremmurd and crew shooting for them.
So his stories are memorable and important to me. Being a bit older, he's been in my shoes and he's walked in them for quite a bit. He knows the ropes and definitely has aspirations.
I got to model a few hats for him that are in a different chapter of this site somewhere.
As the sun began to set we lit the smoke bomb and took some photographs.
As the time went by we got some food at this lowkey burrito place and talked about life and where we've all been as well as where we're all going.
Nick models and works for Bodega in Boston, and Jacqlyn is his girlfriend she shoots photos and does modeling on the side as well.
And as for Hudson and I, we just made a few new friends.
And got an awesome burrito.
So luckily enough I was able to open a few of those new doors. A few semi-older doors and a few very advanced doors.
Doors that will remain open in the Sub-Culture (i) of Boston Photography.