Joe Brentano with Brian Martelli & Michael Szewczyk for Entrepreneur

Allison Meiresonne for Billboard

Gregg Lipman/CBX for Entrepreneur magazine

The faces of Billboard

Gregory DelliCarpini Jr, fashion editor

Following their recent relaunch, Billboard Magazine asked me to shoot new portraits of all their editorial staff.

Here are some of my favz.

Jem Aswad, editor & Andy Ryan, art director

Rachel Been, creative director billboard.com

Ray Waddell, executive director & Andrew Horton, creative director

M. Tye Comer, editor & Reg Gonzales,  artist relations director

Benjamin Meadows-Ingram, music editor & Brad Wete, feature editor

Reggie Ugwu, associate editor

Thanks to the beautiful ladies at the photo-dept, Amelia Halverson and Kate Glicksberg.

Swizz Beatz, musician for Billboard.

A couple of weeks ago, Billboard sent me to photograph hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz in his chelsea “nid d’aigle” studio which was a nice change after the corporate mayhem of these last month. And well…It was also a blast having Swizz’ wife Alicia Keys rehearsing as the soundtrack to the shoot.

Brian Watkins/ Ritani for Entrepreneur

This shot from last december makes me thankful to photography for making my life so rich and diverse, allowing me to access unexpected places, to meet such a wide variety of people. And especially to my clients for allowing me to do so for a living, in this occurence Samantha Cassidy from Entrepreneur.

On paper, it sounded like the usual business portrait in a midtown corporate office… But Brian kindly gave me a tour and I was extremely surprised to discover that the biggest diamonds on the planet were actually getting cut and shaped in the buildings around 45th street and 5th ave.

The gentleman on the left was introduced to me as the Michael Jordan of diamond shaping. He trained his son sitting on the right since he was 7 years old.

NB: Samantha Cassidy will run the paris Marathon in April to raise money for for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, you can help here.

Jon Cohen and Rob Stone/ The Fader-Cornerstone for Adweek