It wasnt supposed to happen this way, but I’m glad it did.

Pandora, at its inception, was designed to be a simple makeup editorial to show off the talents of makeup artist Felicia Sorrells. She brought on board the incredibly talented and diverse model Jewel Thompson and we started getting the shoot in motion. While on set (at the magic loft in Atlanta), my long time genius level fashion designer Lingkoya Washington brought out some super nice pieces and then… it started to evolve. Jewel started moving and the night sky started beaming and the dress started talking to us… and so became what you will experience below. A beautiful mesh of slender and subtle and streets.

Welcome to Pandora.

Model: Jewel Thompson

Photographer: Andrew Thomas Clifton

Clothing and Styling: Lingkoya Washington

Make Up: Felicia Sorrells

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

Tondi is SO badass. Our first meeting in 2008 yielded a set of images that to this day is filled with an emotive sense of feelings that’s VERY hard to duplicate.It just felt RAW and beautiful. This day wasn’t about a specialized staff and coffee drinks and storyboards, and all the other things that “doing a shoot” had become for me of late. This day was about the very basics of what makes a shoot something mor than pictures and poses.

a model, a photographer, a camera, an idea, and a rural road in central Ohio became a road less traveled