*Louis “Kengi” Carr is the Premiere Celebrity Photographer for the month of April. Kengi is proud to call Southern California his home. As a native, born and raised in beautiful Santa Monica California, this Los Angeles based photographer has spent his career with his feet firmly planted in many different realms of photography: commercial, editorial, event, entertainment, street and documentary. His unique and raw style allows him to create and develop images that are strikingly filled with passion and emotion of the human spirit.
As a professional photographer, Carr has 5 photography books and 8 magazine covers to his credit. He’s worked on many projects for a wide array of local organizations as well as Fortune 500 companies. His clients and marketed brands have included FORD Motor Company, GAP, NAACP, TV One, the AAFCA Awards, Director Robi Reed’s Reed for Hope Foundation, The Liberty Hill Foundation, Cedar-Sinai, The CDC, The Black Alumni Association of USC, Being Alive Los Angeles, Black AIDS Institute, Heroes in the Struggle Awards, the City of Los Angeles, Keeping It 100 LA, The TRUST South LA, METRO LA, AIDS Walk LA, APLA Health, Reach LA, The HIV Women’s Taskforce, JWCH, Charles Drew University, The Color of Change, UCLA and LMU.
Carr’s work as photojournalist and documentarian has appeared magazines and newspapers here in Los Angeles as well as throughout the nation and Canada, including The Los Angeles Times, Our Weekly, The Los Angeles Sentinel, San Jose Metro, A&U, Poz, HIV Plus, Positive Lite, The Advocate, The Daily Trojan,and Positively Aware magazines. In 2008, he became a Getty Images Contributor, 2014 was awarded a Netroots Nation Democracy for America Scholarship and in 2017 was granted a Social Media Fellows Scholarship to the United States Conference on AIDS.
Carr is a staple on many celebrity red carpets and enjoys the pleasure covering many large events here in Los Angeles and San Francisco but it is street, documentary and social justice style photography that he truly enjoys. The author of 5 books of photography documenting homelessness, Occupy LA, poverty, HIV and AIDS his work has been called “haunting” “incredibly human” and “thought provoking.”
As if his love and passion for photography weren’t enough to keep him very busy, Carr is also a noted curator with 15 Los Angeles based exhibitions under his belt. A passionate activist for fair housing, homelessness, women’s rights, children, seniors and those living with HIV and AIDS through his Project Kengi Kat outreaches which celebrated 11 years of grass roots community service February 3, 2018. He is also member of the Center for AIDS Research, (CFAR), Community Advisory Board, (CAB). Carr is dedicated to using his talents as an artist, photographer and speaker to not just influence, but completely change the conversations for people who are seen, but not heard.
Behind the scenes footage: https://youtu.be/jczrLjqOAxU
(Video by: Jennell Brooks)
Social Media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/KengiKat/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProjectKengiKat
Website: www.dosomethingsaturday.org
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=kengikat
(Los Angeles, CA) – Actor/Author Ro Brooks is known for FX’s “Sons of Anarchy” and OWN’s “The Haves and the Have Nots”. He currently stars on Medinah, the Middle Eastern Sci/Fi Drama Series scheduled to air Spring 2018.
Social Media:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2497106/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/RoBrooks_/
Website: www.robrooks.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ro-Brooks-Is-Todays-Leading-Man-Fan-Page/136438499717420
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JEROMEROBROOKS
Media Contact for Interviews, photos or information:Edna Sims, ESP Public Relations
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Each calendar month will highlight the incredible talents of one of the 12 photographers as they canvas Ro Brooks in a different and unique themed setting. Each calendar month will be released monthly, allowing fans time to enjoy the wonderful works of each photographer individually.
Included, will be a photo and a mini bio on each photographer for you to get to know a little more about each of them, also behind the scene footage of each photo shoot.
The calendar series is Free of Charge!
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100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Sarcoidosis Disease Foundation -. To get more
information on Sarcoidosis click charity link.
One of the great Celebrity Comedians to succumb to Sarcoidosis: Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, better known to his adoring fans as Bernie Mac, was an American stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor. In the final three years of his life, Mac publicly disclosed that he had suffered from sarcoidosis, a disease of unknown origin that causes inflammation in tissue. Sarcoidosis frequently attacked Mac’s lungs. Mac died August 9, 2008 from complications of pneumonia.
Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease that can affect any organ, although it can be asymptomatic and is discovered by accident in about 5% of cases.[17] Common symptoms, which tend to be vague, include fatigue (unrelieved by sleep; occurs in 66% of cases), lack of energy, weight loss, joint aches and pains (which occur in about 70% of cases),[18] arthritis (14–38% of persons), dry eyes, swelling of the knees, blurry vision, shortness of breath, a dry, hacking cough, or skin lesions.[19][20][21][22] Less commonly, people may cough up blood.[19] The cutaneous symptoms vary, and range from rashes and noduli (small bumps) to erythema nodosum, granuloma annulare, or lupus pernio. Sarcoidosis and cancer may mimic one another, making the distinction difficult.[23].
DONATE HERE: https://robrooks.com/Actor/charity/ or @ https://robrooks.com/Actor/charity/
100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Sarcoidosis Disease Foundation -. To get more
information on Sarcoidosis click charity link.
source: ESPPR
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