JOHN GIVEZ

When you want to do a thing but you can't find the opportunity to do that thing, you create that opportunity yourself. 

My friends and I did that. We started a magazine. We created a place where we could share the things we are passionate about. We can make the photographs we want to make. We can tell the stories we need to tell. It is a place where we are slowing down to appreciate what's often taken for granted and stopping to examine what we can no longer ignore.

Our first feature was the talented and raw Oceanside rapper John Givez, who is about to release his latest album 'Soul Rebel.' While, the photoshoot below was an honor for me to do, it doesn't stand alone. Read the story of what it means to be a soul rebel written by RayNeutron for Typical Mag. 

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My music is for rebels. One thing about rebels is that there are rebels with no cause and rebels with a cause. But even that cause can be misinformed.
— JOHN GIVEZ

SUMMER BECOMES NOSTALGIC

Nothing feels more 'summer' to me than capturing those fleeting moments on film, like putting them in a time capsule.

Like freezing a slice of wedding cake—except the moments only get sweeter with time. Through the filter of Portra 160, the present becomes instantly nostalgic and we feel like we are already our own kids looking at pictures of our young, cool, beautiful parents. Maybe it's naive and narcissistic, but it's how I feel when I look at photos of my parents when they were young and that's the feeling film gives me.