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Bound for Love (BFL) is transmedia project visually enticing viewers behind-the-scenes into the underground world of the Twin Cities fetish scene. BFL was directed, produced, filmed, written and edited by Rebecca McDonald of B FRESH Photography and Media.
Through six intimate vignettes, this multi-platform narrative explores alternative sexual lifestyles, through the mediums of documentary film, photography and written narrative. McDonald spent six months intimately documenting eight characters–Jean Bardot, a professional dominatrix, Charger who loves pony-play, Bondage Mischief who...
Originally posted on GRITtv.org
Alice Mizrachi isn’t just an artist–she’s a community organizer, too. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, Mizrachi’s shown her work around the world, and yet her favorite canvas is New York’s walls. Mizrachi’s built a global network of women artists as co-director of the Younity Arts Collective, and now she’s working with young people. This piece was produced by Rebecca McDonald of B FRESH Photography and Media for GRITtv, and special thanks to Noisemaker Media for the...
Check out the behind the scenes photos by B FRESH Photography and Media from Da Circles’s music video “Napalm” featuring Immortal Technique. The music video was filmed on May 22nd and 23rd 2010 in Brooklyn, NY.
Copyright © 2011 B FRESH Photography and Media www.bfreshphotography.com
Noisemaker Media, Viper Records and Da Circle Present “Napalm”. Goodtime Slim and Fatz D’Assassin are more than just another brand of revolution rap. They are the revolution. On Napalm, Immortal Technique joins Da Circle to plot a coupe de tat on the industry and set the...
Originally published on City Pages
Inspectah Deck of Wu-Tang Clan talks to City Pages’ Web Editor Jen Boyles in an exclusive video interview backstage at the Wu’s sold-out show at Epic Sunday night. B FRESH Photography and Media was there to film and catch photos of the show.
Born Jason Hunter, he and his large and long-loved clan of New York rap personalities delivered a late-night set of classics with Deck taking the reigns for the first several numbers that included tracks from the group’s best full-length to date, Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers — an album to...
Behind the scenes of "No Boys Allowed"
Check out the video interview and behind the scenes photos of Keri Hilson’s photoshoot for her upcoming album “No Boys Allowed” to be released on December 21st. It was an amazing experience working on set to capture Miss Keri Baby doing what she does best. Here is an excerpt from an interview I did with the She’s So Fresh crew about the experience:
“The most exciting shoot I have ever done was behind the scenes documentation for Keri Hilson’s photoshoot for her new album “No Boys Allowed.” It was not...
Immortal Technique in Minneapolis
(FREE MIX)
Originally published on City Pages
Written by Rebecca McDonald, photography by B FRESH Photography and Media
Immortal Technique isn’t your typical rapper. He raps about colonialism and racism rather than about girls and booze. Instead of spending money on chains and rims, he has wisely invested his money and given to humanitarian causes such as opening an orphanage/hospital in Afghanistan with Omeid International.
After returning to the U.S. from his trip to Afghanistan, and hitting up the stage at Soundset ’09, Gimme Noise caught...
Illustrator Chuck U talks Robozoology, inspiration and hippies
Originally published at City Pages
Written by Rebecca McDonald, artwork courtesy of the artist
Chuck U is a Twin Cities-based freelance designer and illustrator, mostly known for his album covers and show posters around town. He doesn’t offer a complex examination of societal ills or provide introspective solutions to life’s problems. What he does offer is something cool to look at. When was the last time you thought about “monkeys as the new people” or an “old hotdog mill (see below)?”...
5 Questions with Brother Ali as ‘Us’ approaches
Originally published in City Pages
Written by Rebecca McDonald, photography by B FRESH Photography and Media
Brother Ali’s forthcoming album is upon us. That’s right, Rhymesayers’ lyrical heavy-hitter is back again, but with a more introspective tone than ever. The album Us will “touch on the strengths and flaws of the human condition, exploring drug abuse, divorce, homophobia and many more topics that most people are scared to touch in their own lives, much less on an album for the world to see,”...
Playdate comes to Minneapolis to ‘redefine nightlife’
Originally published at City Pages
Written by Rebecca McDonald, photography by B FRESH Photography and Media
A national movement focused on redefining nightlife has finally come to the Twin Cities, and just in time. “Playdate” gives young adults an option aside from clubbing, a welcome change considering the local nightlife that’s been even more limited after the recent closing of clubs like Visage, Trocaderos, Axis, Element, and Bellanote.
At Playdate, mingling, networking, relaxing and having fun...
Interview and photos by Rebecca “B FRESH” McDonald of B FRESH Photography and Media
Last February, I took a journey to the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN to meet up with a phenomenal crew of people I met during my travels in New York. The ReadNex Poetry Squad kept in contact with me, and before departing for the Twin Cities, they gave me a ring, asking about places they could book shows, perform etc. We decided to take the opportunity and shoot, so I recently pulled out these photos and sat down with them to catch up on life, touring, their new album and music video release and...
Bound For Love
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Apr 13th, 2013 |
Bound for Love (BFL) is transmedia project visually enticing viewers behind-the-scenes into the underground world of the Twin Cities fetish scene. BFL was directed, produced, filmed, written and edited by Rebecca McDonald of B FRESH Photography and Media.
Through six intimate vignettes, this multi-platform narrative explores alternative sexual lifestyles, through the mediums of documentary film, photography and written narrative. McDonald spent six months intimately documenting eight characters–Jean Bardot, a professional dominatrix, Charger who loves pony-play, Bondage Mischief who...
Alice Mizrachi
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Feb 27th, 2011 |
Originally posted on GRITtv.org
Alice Mizrachi isn’t just an artist–she’s a community organizer, too. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, Mizrachi’s shown her work around the world, and yet her favorite canvas is New York’s walls. Mizrachi’s built a global network of women artists as co-director of the Younity Arts Collective, and now she’s working with young people. This piece was produced by Rebecca McDonald of B FRESH Photography and Media for GRITtv, and special thanks to Noisemaker Media for the...
Da Circle
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Jan 25th, 2011 |
Check out the behind the scenes photos by B FRESH Photography and Media from Da Circles’s music video “Napalm” featuring Immortal Technique. The music video was filmed on May 22nd and 23rd 2010 in Brooklyn, NY.
Copyright © 2011 B FRESH Photography and Media www.bfreshphotography.com
Noisemaker Media, Viper Records and Da Circle Present “Napalm”. Goodtime Slim and Fatz D’Assassin are more than just another brand of revolution rap. They are the revolution. On Napalm, Immortal Technique joins Da Circle to plot a coupe de tat on the industry and set the...
Wu-Tang Clan
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Jan 12th, 2011 |
Originally published on City Pages
Inspectah Deck of Wu-Tang Clan talks to City Pages’ Web Editor Jen Boyles in an exclusive video interview backstage at the Wu’s sold-out show at Epic Sunday night. B FRESH Photography and Media was there to film and catch photos of the show.
Born Jason Hunter, he and his large and long-loved clan of New York rap personalities delivered a late-night set of classics with Deck taking the reigns for the first several numbers that included tracks from the group’s best full-length to date, Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers — an album to...
Keri Hilson
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Dec 10th, 2010 |
Behind the scenes of "No Boys Allowed"
Check out the video interview and behind the scenes photos of Keri Hilson’s photoshoot for her upcoming album “No Boys Allowed” to be released on December 21st. It was an amazing experience working on set to capture Miss Keri Baby doing what she does best. Here is an excerpt from an interview I did with the She’s So Fresh crew about the experience:
“The most exciting shoot I have ever done was behind the scenes documentation for Keri Hilson’s photoshoot for her new album “No Boys Allowed.” It was not...
Immortal Technique
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Nov 17th, 2010 |
Immortal Technique in Minneapolis
(FREE MIX)
Originally published on City Pages
Written by Rebecca McDonald, photography by B FRESH Photography and Media
Immortal Technique isn’t your typical rapper. He raps about colonialism and racism rather than about girls and booze. Instead of spending money on chains and rims, he has wisely invested his money and given to humanitarian causes such as opening an orphanage/hospital in Afghanistan with Omeid International.
After returning to the U.S. from his trip to Afghanistan, and hitting up the stage at Soundset ’09, Gimme Noise caught...
Chuck U
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Nov 16th, 2010 |
Illustrator Chuck U talks Robozoology, inspiration and hippies
Originally published at City Pages
Written by Rebecca McDonald, artwork courtesy of the artist
Chuck U is a Twin Cities-based freelance designer and illustrator, mostly known for his album covers and show posters around town. He doesn’t offer a complex examination of societal ills or provide introspective solutions to life’s problems. What he does offer is something cool to look at. When was the last time you thought about “monkeys as the new people” or an “old hotdog mill (see below)?”...
Brother Ali
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Nov 16th, 2010 |
5 Questions with Brother Ali as ‘Us’ approaches
Originally published in City Pages
Written by Rebecca McDonald, photography by B FRESH Photography and Media
Brother Ali’s forthcoming album is upon us. That’s right, Rhymesayers’ lyrical heavy-hitter is back again, but with a more introspective tone than ever. The album Us will “touch on the strengths and flaws of the human condition, exploring drug abuse, divorce, homophobia and many more topics that most people are scared to touch in their own lives, much less on an album for the world to see,”...
Playdate
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Nov 16th, 2010 |
Playdate comes to Minneapolis to ‘redefine nightlife’
Originally published at City Pages
Written by Rebecca McDonald, photography by B FRESH Photography and Media
A national movement focused on redefining nightlife has finally come to the Twin Cities, and just in time. “Playdate” gives young adults an option aside from clubbing, a welcome change considering the local nightlife that’s been even more limited after the recent closing of clubs like Visage, Trocaderos, Axis, Element, and Bellanote.
At Playdate, mingling, networking, relaxing and having fun...
ReadNex Poetry Squad
Posted by Rebecca McDonald
on Oct 31st, 2010 |
Interview and photos by Rebecca “B FRESH” McDonald of B FRESH Photography and Media
Last February, I took a journey to the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN to meet up with a phenomenal crew of people I met during my travels in New York. The ReadNex Poetry Squad kept in contact with me, and before departing for the Twin Cities, they gave me a ring, asking about places they could book shows, perform etc. We decided to take the opportunity and shoot, so I recently pulled out these photos and sat down with them to catch up on life, touring, their new album and music video release and...
B FRESH Photography and Media--Create, Empower, RevolutionizeB FRESH Photography and Media is an award-winning transmedia production company, specializing in multimedia content development, news writing, and research. With expertise in multi-platform media, international productions, and licensing, we deliver initiatives rooted in technical vision and professional integrity. Our aesthetically-rich narratives are driven by two objectives: 1) Incite community power development and 2) Inform target audience with meaningful and engaging multimedia content.
B FRESH Photography and Media provides the following services to media outlets, non-profits, government agencies, businesses and private clients:
-Full-service photography, television, and film production
-Multimedia training, workshops and curriculum development
-Copywriting
-Strategic development and management of social media and public relations campaigns
Our work has been featured in publications spanning the globe, including ColorLines Magazine, The Nation, The SOURCE, VIBE Magazine, Crossbeat, Black Enterprise, Wax Poetics, IMPOSE Magazine, and on the covers of City Pages, The Liberator Magazine and Anattitude Magazine. Owner Rebecca McDonald is a regular contributor to enterprise media outlets such as the Village Voice Media and MTV.
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