Toronto celebrity music photographer

Lady Gaga : Andy Warhol Remix

ntmadmin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:12:04 +0000

This is a previously unreleased Lady Gaga photograph I shot backstage on her "The Fame" tour. We went for a more gritty look with the composite to get a hard edged circa 1980's Andy Warhol graphic look.

Chloe Sevigny – Hollywood Actress for Privilege Magazine

ntmadmin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:24:29 +0000

I photographed Chloe on good old black & white 35mm negative film usnig a Nikon 105mm, at f2.8

Solitair – Silver Surfer – Hip Hop Album cover art

ntmadmin — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:57:01 +0000

MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY : Creative concepts for a brand

ntmadmin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:25:59 +0000

NOT4SALE- KARDINAL OFFISHALL “Will eat a rappers career for money”

ntmadmin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:23:04 +0000

That’s Kardi for you! We shot his album cover for Not4Sale in and around my studio in Toronto. This image was shot outside a coffee shop in the middle of a busy intersection in Kensington Market. Seemed the the fun thing to do at the time.

Kardi was recently signed to Kon Live and Interscope records in Los Angeles by hip hop star and rapper Akon. Kardi dropped a crazy number 1 single with Akon named “Dangerous”. I don’t think he will need to eat any rappers career for money now.

Client: Interscope Records / Universal Music

Kardinal Offishall album insert image for 2008 release of Not4Sale

Location: Baldwin & Augusta intersection, Kensington Market, Toronto

Make up: Kim “Blackspanese” Goodman

Akon, the original Konvict

ntmadmin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:21:18 +0000

Akon during a promotional tour in Toronto for hip hop artist and rapper Kardinal Offishall for his latest album NOT4SALE.

Client: Interscope Records / Universal Music

Akon “Konvict”

Shot in Toronto at Circa Nightclub

Promotional tour with Kardinal Offishall for Not 4 Sale album

Dearly Beloved: Brass Balls Shot

ntmadmin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:19:26 +0000

Rob Higgins is the lead vocalist of Toronto’s indie punk rock band Dearly Beloved. They were in the studio during the summer for promotional press and advertisement photos. Rob had a cool belt so we gave it a hero shot close- up in this ‘balls’ shot. I think this could make for a really cool album cover.

Bruce McDonald: Director of Pontypool

ntmadmin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:17:26 +0000

Shot with Bruce while he was in the final week of production on his film Pontypool in Toronto. Cool dude very easy going. I was a bit nervous cause I am a fan of his work, his film Hard Core Logo blew me away. It was the first English Canadian film that kicked ass!

We shot this image at the Gladstone Hotel on Queen Street using natural light with my Nikon D3 and a 105mm prime lens.

Norglen: a Canadian Rock Band

ntmadmin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:15:07 +0000

Norglen is a rock band signed to an L.A. indie label, again we only get love down in the states it seems. A cool bunch of guys mostly from the west coast Calgary from a town called Norglen, hence the name. We shot mostly on the streets of downtown Toronto stealing locations like the Distillery District, Union station, Massey Hall. Here are a couple of shot’s I later put together.

Kardinal Offishall | NOT4SALE : THE ALBUM

ntmadmin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:12:47 +0000

Kardinal Offishall’s first album since Akon signed him on to an American label. Good for you Kardi!! Seems like if you’re gonna make it in the big time you will have to do it south of the border with our American friends.
I have been shooting Kardi and the Black Jays for a few years now, and when Kardi’s manager Mayday told me about the upcoming album and the title I was really intrigued. I remembered when I directed Kardi’s video Heads Up from his Fire & Glory album he was wearing a T-shirt with a barcode and it said NOT4SALE.
I spoke with Kardi about my idea to put a barcode where his mouth should be completely eliminating it and i put together a rough composite to show him, he really dug it. So The label Interscope in L.A. gave me a tentative deal to shoot and put something together and if they like it then we got a full cover deal.
I spoke to Kardi again the day before the shoot and we came up with the concept of a soldier holding a grenade in his mouth, which we later had to loose because of legal issues. No ammo in pictures, hmm interesting, weapons are ok though ;0
We shot in Kensington Market and Harlem restaurant and a bunch of other renegade locations, no permits, run and gun. Better to ask forgiveness then ask permission.

Some of the above images were created just for my own amusement and were not included in the album artwork.
Here are some of the images we shot and used in the album art.