WORK

Interior Designer Noz Nozawa shot for House Beautiful in San Francisco, California. Nozawa creates colorful interiors with an eye for sustainability.

Designers
Every year on the first weekend in October the Black Cowboy Association, hosts the Black Cowboy Parade, in De Femery Park in Oakland, California.

Black Cowboy Parade – Oakland, Ca
Konstantin Kosov, otherwise known as Fruit Jesus, serves up a seasonal local fresh fruit and delivery at the local SF Farmers markets.

Fruit Jesus
Silver Buckle Rodeo in Taylorsville, Caliofrnia. July 4th, 2018.

Silver Buckle Rodeo
Matias Viel of BeeFlow photographed with his bees at Woolf Almond orchard in California’s central Valley. Beeflow increases organically crop yields providing professionalized pollination services. With a team built by pollination and bee health scientists we can increase between 10-80% yields of more than 30 crops in Argentina. Beeflow's pollination service increases beekeeper's income as well. Bee-hives are transported and safeguarded on fields within scientific standards to avoid any health problem. Science-based solutions regarding pollination efficiency and bee health are being developed also.

Beeflow
Gorgeous cowgirl, Brianna Owens, at the 2017 Bill Pickett rodeo in Oakland, CA. This is one of the very few, if not only, national black rodeo in the US.

Black Cowboys
Radical Monarchs graduates 2018. The Radical Monarchs empower young girls of color so that they stay rooted in their collective power, brilliance and leadership in order to make the world a more radical place. The Radical Monarchs also create opportunities for young girls of color to form fierce sisterhood, celebrate their identities and contribute radically to their communities.

Radical Monarchs
Magaly Santos, Youth Organizer and Student at Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice. Photographed in Gonsalez, California on MArch 30th, 2020.

Magaly Santos
Peter, the cat.

Indian Valley

Diversity and Inclusion – UC Berkeley – Haas School of Biz
Black Cowboy, Prince Damons

Prince Damons
Whittany

Whittany
Alice Waters at home in Berkeley, California.

Chef Alice Waters
Maria Jose Palacio, CEO and Co-Founder at Progeny Coffee, photographed near her home in Palo Alto, California on August 31, 2020.

Maria Jose Palacio – Progeny Coffee
Cowgirl Brianna Noble with her horse Dapper Dan, photographed at Defremery Park in Oakland, California on February 26th, 2021. Bri Noble is the founder and owner of Mulatto Meadows, an equestrian business dedicated to expanding the accessibility of riding and horsemanship to communities historically excluded from the equestrian world. Bri is especially passionate about introducing horsemanship and riding to youth of color and economically disenfranchised populations.

Brianna Noble // Mulatto Meadows
Titilayo

Titilayo
Photos of real people taking care of their skin.

Healthline Real Beauty

Athleta
A Better Death, BJ Miller - one of the many Bay Area healthcare advocates redefining end-of-life care.

Death Caretakers
GLBT activist Cecilia Chung on Polk Street.

Polk Street
Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California since 2011.

Black + White Portraits
Kristi Yummykochi of The Rice Rockettes.

The Rice Rockettes ~ San Francisco Magazine
Mission Street Dry Cleaner

Mission Street

Madison Reed Hair Color
Silver Buckle Rodeo contestant in Taylorsville, California. 2008.

Young Riders
Cow eating veggie dogs for the cover of Lucky Peach. Shot at Belcampo Farms.

Farm Life
Rising Chef of the Year, Sara Hauman, of Octavia for San Francisco Magazine.

Commissions
Unity Skateboard meetup in San Francisco, California in front of the Ferry Building. Unity is a queer skateboarding collective in California, designed as a haven from the sometimes-hostile environment the sport has fostered.

Unity Skateboards
Lady Monster photographed at China Basin beach in San Francisco was titled Queen of the Fire Tassels by burlesque sensation, Satan's Angel.

Fat! Fit? Flabulous!
Chef Tanya Holland of Brown Sugar Kitchen

Female Chefs
Houseparty app Co-founder and Coo, Sima Sistani.

Sima Sistani & Tatum Getty
Pretty Pretty Collective fundraiser party.

Pretty Pretty Collective
Panda Dulce of The Rice Rockettes, an all Asian drag queen group.

Commissions 03
Nina and Greta

Portraits of the Trans Community in San Francisco
Bill Pickett Rodeo in Castro Valley, California. Photographed on July 14, 2018.

Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo – Oakland
Benjamin Bratt.

Commissions 2
Starline Social Bar

Oakland Bars
Gay Rodeo. La Honda, Ca 2012.

Best Buck in the Bay
Laura Deming is a venture capitalist. At age 24, her work focuses on life extension, and using biological research to reduce or reverse the effects of aging.

Laura Deming
Jamal, a recovering patient and artist from the Wraparound Project at SF General.

Wraparound Project at SF General
Black Cowboys- Loyalty Riders

Juneteenth + Loyalty Riderz Campout
Ari Leff, known as Lauv, photographed in San Francisco, on January 24th, during his 2018 US Tour.

Lauv for Billboard Mag
Instead of aging its spirits, Endless West essentially infuses them with flavor and color compounds drawn from plants and yeast.

Overnight Spirits
Kytch device installed inside a Taylor C716 machine.

Soft-Serve Hard Ball for WIRED
May Daniels

Women
Founder of Whetstone Magazine, Stephen Satterfield. Since 2007, Stephen Satterfield has spent his career using food and as means of organizing, activating, and educating. Prior to his career in media, Satterfield was a sommelier and social entrepreneur using wine as a catalyst for socioeconomic development for Black wine workers in South Africa. Satterfield is among the most prominent and respected voices in American food media and host of Netflix’s forthcoming docuseries, High on the Hog.

Stephen Satterfield – High on the Hog