Imran Ciesay (Film Photographer) Places + Faces

Imran Ciesay is a London based film photographer who focuses on capturing famous hip-hop artists and people in the hip-hop industry as portraits. He currently runs a website and YouTube channel called 'Places Plus Faces' where Ciesay travels across the world, usually following different rappers, and captures the scenes and celebrities. Places + Faces demonstrates Imran Ciesay’s knack for capturing figures of the very upper tier of the hip hop world with their guards down, in candid, un-posed shots that show them as real people and not performers. Ciesay has also released a Zine called 'Places + Faces Vol. 1' which carries portraits of many artists in the music industry. I was initially drawn to Ciesay because of his interest in point and shoot photography as he mainly uses a Contax T2 compact camera. I found this very interesting because most people do not use point and shoot cameras anymore, and Ciesay has brought this back into fashion in the modern world.