In my opinion the biggest aspect of shooting photography is the ability to be adaptable.

I was in Atlanta and had just shot some work with my friend Stylist/Designer/Makeup Artist Lingkoya Washington and we had this GORGEOUS model named Antonia Blain reply to a message on Facebook and an email sent from her agency HD The Agency on the same day was past ironic. We did a same day call-contact-shoot and had her in the studio getting all dressed and made up…

…and then the rain fell. It was brutal, like seriously started covering ATL in this storm of biblical proportions and yet our entire team and the model were still about getting some shots out of it. welcome to a few images of what we did that day in WATERWORLD

and just for GOOD measure, she TOTALLY wanted to jump in some water so…

Model: Antonia Blain

Photographer: Andrew Thomas Clifton

Styling and Clothing provided by:JayLing.com

Agency: HD The Agency

The winters in Chicago are BRUTAL… seriously some of the coldest that I have seen and dealt with since the days of my youth in Syracuse, New York. However when my buddy Kathryn Chizuko (whom we affectionately call KAT) came in town … we decided it was time to rage against the elements and finally work together for the betterment of mankind or some shit like that. It was not only my first time working with Kat, but my first time working with stellar Make-Up Artist LaTasha Y. Benn (whom has been guest blogging here quite a bit lately). I called up fashion stylist Veronica Ariel Kelly and we crafteed this natural series of images (only photoshop used was for creative tones) in a single outfit that I like to call Kitty in a Cold City

Enjoy with our Love,

Andrew Thomas Clifton, Photographer

KISS MAGAZINE “The Difference”

I conceptualized this series called “Puss in Boots” which, at its inception, was defined as a series of images with black women redefining the current stereotypes by combining elements of their soft looks and skin with hard boots and tough attitudes (based roughly on the 4 characters from Sex in the City). I didn’t want to hold back anymore I wanted to show some sex but show some fashion, so we pulled these REALLY awesome boots and got to clicking and colliding.

On the Atlanta based set, I got to work with models Shawna Jalynn and Angelus Copeland I was also reunited by Stylist/Makeup Artist Lingkoya Washington and for the first time got to work with Hairstylist Ms. Q, who can do some very dynamic and beautiful things with hair

Anyway, enough talk, enjoy a few images from the unreleased series, PUSS in BOOTS

-Andrew Thomas Clifton