JAkX Photography

Fashion’s Night Out 2012 (Late Post) NorthPark Center,...

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:07:00 -0400

Fashion’s Night Out 2012 (Late Post)

NorthPark Center, Dallas, TX

Promo Shoot with Brian McCoy Downtown Dallas

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:56:12 -0400

Promo Shoot with Brian McCoy

Downtown Dallas

Stem & Thorn Launch http://stemandthorn.com/

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:09:00 -0400

Stem & Thorn Launch

http://stemandthorn.com/

I absolutely loooovvveee your photography!!

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:40:25 -0400

Thank you so much!!!!!

Sunset Shots I wanted to capture some of this beautiful Texas...

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:17:43 -0400

Sunset Shots

I wanted to capture some of this beautiful Texas sunrise. I put my 50mm to work to capture the horizon in a couple of fields. Enjoy.

-JAkX

Erykah Badu LIVE! Granada Theater in Dallas, Texas Another...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:31:00 -0400

Erykah Badu LIVE!

Granada Theater in Dallas, Texas

Another night, Ms. Badu gave us another high octane performance. Mind you this was my third time seeing Ms. Badu live in concert. The last was at The Door AKA the “big side” of Prophet Bar in Deep Ellum, and unfortunately, I couldn’t bring my camera that night. I got lucky at Granada and kept it close as we all took our usual places at the front of the stage. I was also able to snap a few shots back stage during set up.

The concert opened with Dallas’ own dynamic Hip-Hop Duo A.Dd+, who prepared the crowd and stage with high energy performance. Following that was an intermission that seemed to almost last for an eternity. Anxiously awaiting for Ms. Badu to grace the stage, everyone decided to either take shots, smoke in front of the entrance or roll up (which a hipster couple did front and center stage). All goes dark, with the powerful scents of cannabis, incense and sage filling the front end of the stage.

Badu finally blesses us with her presence on stage greeting us with her infamous “Sista’s how y’all feel? Brotha’s y’all alright?” Badu performed a more than generous set of songs even going back through a huge section of the “Baduizm Era” and medleys from just about every other album. It was at one point in the night I realized this was more than just another concert… For the first time, I heard Badu cover “Believe In Yourself” from “The Wiz”. It was as close to church as it could ever get at a Badu concert. It was as if the whole world stopped as she belted not just musical notes, but a blanketing spirit of encouragement, love, peace, energy and light… and yes I shed a tear ‘As I believe in you…’ No words could describe the feeling I had that moment… After that, all I felt was life in every sense of the word. Much love and light to my lady, Erica Abi Wright aka Erykah Badu.

Oh yeah… this time we went to Cafe Brazil afterwards.

-JAkX

Kendrick Lamar LIVE! Club Trees in Dallas, Texas I swear...

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:37:00 -0400

Kendrick Lamar LIVE!

Club Trees in Dallas, Texas

I swear ScoreMore (promo team) had Trees packed like a can of sardines… We [Tommy, KoolQuise, Tone, Allison, JoonBug, Nychelle and ‘urbody else’] had to “worm and bust” to make our way to the front… After a blaze of great opening MC’s, Kendrick Lamar burned down the stage with his electrifying performance…

That night/morning after the concert, I was invited upstairs to the green room, and met Mr. Lamar and was able to capture this “after party” of sort. This entire night was nothing short of amazing… and then I got pizza after.

-JAkX

Collaboration with Ironic Productions Model: Brendon Bell -The...

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:58:00 -0400

Collaboration with Ironic Productions

Model: Brendon Bell -The Clutts Agency
Stylist/Wardrobe: Landon Simpson -Conservative Circus

FUSION: Celebrating Frances Jaye’s Birthday Featuring...

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:20:50 -0400

FUSION: Celebrating Frances Jaye’s Birthday
Featuring high-octane performances by : Choklate, Slakah the Beat Child & YahZarah
JKX Elite, JKX Performance Series ©2012

Now Introducing the JKX Collection Model: Loren Kavo -The...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:28:00 -0400

Now Introducing the JKX Collection

Model: Loren Kavo -The Campbell Agency
Stylist/Wardrobe: Ralph Boaz
JKX Elite; JKX Collection ©2012

We are excited to present the all new “JKX Collection” under the newly formed “JKX Elite” brand of JAkX Photography! Stay tuned for more.

#picstitch #face #body #everything #fit #life #sexy (Taken with...

Sun, 27 May 2012 20:41:58 -0400

#picstitch #face #body #everything #fit #life #sexy (Taken with Instagram at AMLI Bryan Place Pool)

“I love you Badu” #Erykah #Badu #jakx #odeIIbadu...

Sat, 12 May 2012 13:52:29 -0400

“I love you Badu” #Erykah #Badu #jakx #odeIIbadu #badoula (Taken with instagram)

Brown Sugar Suite Presents: Live in Concert, PJ Morton at House...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:03:05 -0400

Brown Sugar Suite Presents: Live in Concert, PJ Morton at House of Blues, Dallas, TX

PJ Morton is a Grammy, Dove & Stellar-Award winning writer and producer who has written and produced songs for India.Arie, Musiq Soulchild, Monica, Ruben Studdard, Trin-i-tee 5:7 and many more. He also worked with composer AR Rahman (most notably known for his work on Slumdog Millionaire) and is featured on the “Couples Retreat” soundtrack with him.

On his fifth independently released album entitled Walk Alone, PJ shared his heart, experiences and stories with the masses. Walk Alone was a deeply personal album entirely written, produced and performed by PJ. The highly anticipated concept album symbolized the breadth of PJ’s self-expression as well as his creative choices with music beyond the confines of labels. “In the state of the world I feel alone because of the way I choose to do music with true instrumentation. Creating stories and lyrics with meaning feels like a minority not a majority.”

(Excerpt taken from his official biography)

For more on PJ Morton visit the links below:

http://www.pjmortononline.com/

http://twitter.com/PJMORTON

http://www.facebook.com/thepjmorton

http://www.reverbnation.com/thepjmorton

Shots of the amazing Luke James from the Lexus Listening Lounge...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:32:23 -0400

Shots of the amazing Luke James from the Lexus Listening Lounge in the Design District of Dallas, Texas…

He’s a singer/songwriter who truly embodies the honesty and fresh, organic soulfulness that’s been in relatively short supply of late in contemporary music. Now that sounds like a pretty tall order for a newcomer to fulfill. However, the New Orleans native is very much up to the task. In fact, you’ve no doubt heard his work: he co-wrote Chris Brown’s “Crawl” and has penned songs for Justin Bieber (“That Should Be Me”) and Britney Spears (“Kill The Lights”), among others. And his growing fan base includes none other than Beyoncé, who selected James to appear in her “Run the World” video.

(Taken from his official biography)

For more on Luke James visit the links below:

http://whoislukejames.com/

http://www.twitter.com/whoislukejames

http://www.facebook.com/whoislukejames

http://www.youtube.com/whoisLukeJames

And it’s still complicated… How could one have so...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:49:00 -0500

And it’s still complicated…

How could one have so much on the mind but nothing to say…

Photo By D.W.

JAkX Signature: Charlie Paige II

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:55:00 -0500

JAkX Signature: Charlie Paige II

JAkX Signature: Charlie Paige

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:43:00 -0500

JAkX Signature: Charlie Paige

Shoot YahZarah Purple St. James… I had the honor and the...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:46:41 -0500

Shoot YahZarah Purple St. James…

I had the honor and the pleasure of shooting with Neo/Organic-Soul Artist, YAHZARAH . A major accomplishment that came at the most unexpected time. Yah was in town for Frances Jaye’s Birthday Celebration by way of “Fusion”, with a roster including the vocal sensation Choklate of Seattle, WA, and Toronto’s own Slakah the BeatChild; Singer, Songwriter, Producer and MC. She was definitely on my list of people to work with, but I did not expect for it to come so soon. She is an amazing artist, and a force of positive energy; I look forward to working with her in the future. I would also love to shout out the amazing Bridgett Washington and GlamourRX for the Make Up and Styling.

YahZarah, a singer-songwriter who first made her mark as a background singer for Erykah Badu, has spent the past few years touring in support of her albums “Hear Me” (2001), A follow up LP, 2003’s “Blackstar,” was issued on the Three Keys label and reached #44 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. Followed by 2008’s “The Prelude.” She worked on “The Ballad…” independently for a number of years before reaching out to Phonte (a longtime friend and fellow NC Central music student), and finally selecting +FE Music as her label home.

For More Information on YahZarah Purple St. James:

http://whoisyahzarah.com

https://twitter.com/YahZarah

http://facebook.com/YahZarahPSJ

http://myspace.com/yahzarah

So I decided to make my first post of 2012 my FIRST shoot of...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:48:53 -0500

So I decided to make my first post of 2012 my FIRST shoot of 2012 with Jmil Kly aka Buffalo Black; Hip Hop artist, writer, producer, and philosopher. At some point we will continue with Part II as a night shoot.

Jamil Kelley (Jmil Kly) represents a new breed of Artistry out of Dallas, Texas. Born on May 2, ‘88, he was raised in Dallas with the perspective of an observer carrying an ambitious spirit. He is the product of a single parent household and has two siblings. He is currently a Philosophy and Film student at the University of North Texas. Music became an important asset in his life early in the year of 2009 after the advice of many friends. He began rapping and writing lyrics for his debut mixtape, “Flomogenic”, later released in May of 2010. After the moderate success that followed from local critics and peers, he began preparing for his debut EP, “NEOTokyo”, which carried apocalyptic themes and concepts derived from Anime Films such as, “Akira”. Afterwards, a creative void discovered within compelled him to develop his next EP, “The Boy King”. Which inherited new sounds influenced by several artists such as Hans Zimmer, Alpha, Brian Eno, Kanye West and Flying Lotus. He plans on building off of the release to further his career and influence others as he himself was influenced.

For more information on Jmil, hit up the links below:

http://www.jmilkly.com/

http://jamilkelley.bandcamp.com/

http://jmilkly.tumblr.com/

http://twitter.com/jmilkly

http://www.facebook.com/jmilkly

Highlights from CoolBeings Movement & CoffeeMusicHub’s...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:49:51 -0500

Highlights from CoolBeings Movement & CoffeeMusicHub’s 16 Bars & a Drum Beat Hip Hop Open Mic, Hosted by Brown of Sore Losers & Gravy from Dallas’ own A.Dd+, featuring performances by Matt Clay, Tunk, -Topic & Cash’mir, with an unplanned acoustic cypher outside including the dynamic Sirron Reid, Brown of Sore Losers, Tunk, KoolQuise, & Jmil Kly aka Buffalo Black. A night to remember

-JAkX