Allison Retina Stewart

Photo Director / Editor / Researcher / Photographer

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Been shooting a lot of branded content lately + I’m obsessed. New client work | SFE #ShotByARS #BrandedByARS (at Houston, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSERbMgamV/?igshid=ashxl0rhr64s

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@manfred.thetailor https://www.instagram.com/p/CFCd3nxAann/?igshid=179utawtwz5o9

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Game 4. Locked in 🔗| @houstonrockets #Archives (at Houston, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE-TJQ1gYnN/?igshid=105bbtr4r2sdl

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Life update: Creative directing from my bed all quarantine. FaceTime w/ Friends | @Ranger_Up ⁣ @Apple | Brooklyn #ShotOniPhone (at Facetime) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE9fLNvAeJU/?igshid=15cpshl7twqyu

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Recap: Arthur Miller Foundation Honors

Studio ARS had the ABSOLUTE pleasure of shooting the red carpet at The Arthur Miller Foundation’s inaugural Arthur Miller Foundation Honors celebrating the power of public school arts education - Hosted by Alec Baldwin on October 22, 2018 at City Winery in New York City.

This year, the foundation honored HBO Documentary Films with the Arthur Miller Foundation Legacy Award and Tony Kushner with the Arthur Miller Foundation Humanitarian award.

My favorite highlight from the night was watching actor Anthony Ramos walk the carpet honoring his high school teacher (photographed below). Ramos proclaimed “She’s the reason why I’m acting”! It’s amazing to share moments with those who saw the light in you before you were able to.

Those in attendance included Co-chairs Rebecca Miller, Steven Speilberg, Kate Capshaw, Sandi Farkas, Janine and Michael Smith. Performances by: Nathan Lane, Edie Falco, Tituss Burgess, Anthony Ramos, Denee Benton, Kartina Lenk. Featured Guests; Ari’el Stachel, Solea Pfeiffer, Sherie Rene Scott, Brandon Victor Dixon, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Micheal Meyer, Cindy Tolan & More.

Learn more about the foundation at www.ArthurMillerFoundation.org

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This week.

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Jay Z and John Legend Applaud NYC Mayor's Promise to Close Rikers Island

Jay Z connects the dots between long-held assumptions about abusive practices at New York’s infamous prison facility and the late Kalief Browder.

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Find reasons to come together today. Find reasons to love. A series photographed by A. Retina Stewart, featuring a beautiful collaboration between myself, Wordspit, the dancers of Alvin Ailey, and poet Cyrus Aaron.

Gon’ tell it

By Cyrus Aaron

This story aint new at all is it?

Take what they want

Hear what they speak

But we see

Don't we?

Hell, if we know it

All we've ever known

Aint we all we got

Aint we all they want

Aint this what it’s always been

Aint been the same since when

Way back

When they took what they want

Aint Want misleading

Aint what you think it is

They aint what they think they is

We know what this is

They got a thing for us

Soon enough

Aint gone be no us

Keep putting they hands on us

Call it doin’ right by us

Words went right by us

Aint fixin’ to do us right

Less we do that thang they like

Always what they like

Aint met a thang

That we do

They aint like

This thang, Miss thang

Sweet thang, Shame

They mistreat what they like

Steal what comply

Kill what don’t fight

The honest truth

Be a bold lie

Told all our lives

But they aint listenin’

Aint lookin’

Just as crooked

Justice crooked

And say we talk too much

Say we doin’ too much

Less what we doin’ is for them

It aint ever enough

Enough aint had enough

But we make it enough

We makin’ it huh

it all rise and set round n’em

But we shakin’ it huh

Rhythm gotta way of breaking the funk

Chile, Mine lips holdin’ a tide

A storm brewing within these cheeks

Mine eyes got a fire in 'em

A warmth me alone couldn't keep

Even my bitter is sweet

Lips foreign to their mothers soil

Full and black as the berry

These eyes have seen hell

Yet still shine glory

Aint we got our own story

This story we tellin’

Aint new at all

Tellin’ what was told before us

Tellin’ how it was told to us

Tell it like it is

Aint that the truth

Gon’ tell it

Dancers:

Lakeesha Escobosa

Shaina McGregor

Mickaela Brandon

Brena' Thomas

Rapper, Wordspit The Illest

Viewable at STUDIOARS.CO

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pretty

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Adult swim, Maria Svarbova

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That 4pm daze

Photo: @harleyweir

More photos here

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Make me uncomfortable.

In a good way of course lol

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Samira Carvalho  at Movimento SS15 Backstage SPFW 

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Vanessa

© Nadine Ijewere

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A.W.E Campaign shot in Brooklyn, by A. Retina Stewart