LA Originals

In the film LA originals, they focused a lot of the story on Cartoon the tattoo artist, and Estevan Oriol the photographer. Estevan is a well know photographer in the hip-hop culture and he gained his success through the people he hangout with including Cartoon. I loved the way he captures people’s essence, being able to use a film camera and photograph such beautiful portraits of people is hard. Estevan was able to do what he loved and practice his skills through the culture he grew up in and was around of most his life. A lot of his photographs are of people in the hip-hop culture, gang life or Chicano culture. Since he was a part of all that, he was able to capture the realness of his subjects, just like the famous “LA” photograph he took. Estevan took his connections with the world and used it to his advantage, collaborating with known artists and. Getting his name out there is a really smart move. I love the film photography he produced, he kept it old school and developed his own images just like when he started. I love film photography, I own a Canon AE 1 myself, and it is hard to photograph because you don’t know how good the images are going to turn out till you developed them, but it defiantly brings out a different style and esthetic in the images.