Kwaku Alston

Kwaku has photographed some of the most famous faces of our time—from Oscar and Grammy winners to Barack Obama and the First Family. His many and diverse clients include The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Harper’s Bazaar, global brands like Apple, Chase Bank, and Coca-Cola, and media giants such as Universal Studios, Disney, Amazon Studios, Sony Music, Netflix, HBO, and Paramount. His portraits have a fresh, unaffected feel, and yet they celebrate the extraordinariness of his subjects, striking a balance between contemporary documentary photography and classic celebrity portraiture.