Lisa Leone - 13x19" Print - Snoop VIP - Long Beach, CA 1993
SKU: LEONE02
$799
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"Wyclef and Lauryn Hill "- East Harlem, 1993
"In 1993, legendary artist and director Fab 5 Freddy invited me to Long Beach to photograph Snoop Dogg's first music video, "Who Am I? (What’s My Name?)". It was also my first time to Long Beach. I arrived to find Snoop rapping on the historic rooftop of World Famous VIP Records, one of the most culturally significant landmarks in West Coast hip-hop. The shoot quickly became an unforgettable introduction to LA gang life when a shootout at our next park location forced production to stop for two weeks. When filming resumed, I met Snoop, who turned out to be incredibly shy and soft-spoken. He smiled and said, "You were the one who drove Freddy out of the park—you cut me and Suge off." - Lisa Leone
- Print Size: 13x19 inches
- Fine art cotton rag archival paper
- Pigment Print
- Signed, Edition of 10, exclusively for Leone's 2026 "212" Gallery Exhibition at Leica Store Miami
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Bronx-born Lisa Leone is an Emmy award winning director, a photographer and DP. She began her career as a photographer documenting early hip-hop, which she exhibits regularly. In 2015 her first monograph Here I Am was published by Minor Matters accompanied by an exhibit at The Bronx Museum. Lisa’s photos have been exhibited throughout the world, in solo and group shows, including the "Contact High" exhibit at ICP and "50 Years of Hip-Hop" at Fotografiska in NYC and Sweden. Lisa segued into cinematography, shooting music videos for artists TLC, Heavy D and D'Angelo. From there, Lisa went on to work with her mentor Stanley Kubrick on his last film Eyes Wide Shut. Upon Kubrick’s death she dived into a deeper study between the relationship of cinema and imagery, continuing to focus on cinematography, shooting over ten independent feature films. Her debut film as writer, director, and cinematographer, Exactly, starring Rosie Perez and Sarita Choudhury premiered at Tribeca, London and Sundance Film Festivals. She’s directed multiple episodes of television including, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Grey’s Anatomy, East New York and Big Sky. Lisa won a Suncoast Regional Emmy for her documentary on the late artist Christo and his "Surrounded Islands" project. “Remembering Surrounded Islands” was commissioned by The Pérez Art Museum.
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