Rudy ( Black ) Pierre

Born in Port-Au-Prince Haiti /  Plays soccer on concrete roads /
Plays marble games with friends /  Sells winning marbles for profit /
Family moves to New York & Boston MA / Works in high school media department /
Begin working on computer in electronics class /  Earn first computer after repairing it back to life /
Played basketball /  Move to Virginia 17 /  Works as soldier for US Army /
College at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh /  Travel to Korea, Afghanistan, Egypt, Uzbekistan, /
Germany, Pakistan, Los Angeles, and Turkey /  Buys camera in Korea /  Shoot fellow soldiers while in military /
Hires college talent & produces shoot from college dorm /  Sing Reggae Music-Swim-Beer-Dance-Laugh-Study-Create /
Drives 1988 Caddy /  Parties with Sean Puffy Combs, Fat Joe, Prodigy /  Works relentless /
Road trips & images /  Develops photos at lab on 19 street bet 5&6 /  Shoots super model Liya Kebede /
Shoots President in Haiti /  Shoots Mos Def /  Shoots Music /  Lifestyle /  Editorials / Fashion /
Fine Art /  Opens studio in Brooklyn & LIC /  Still plays soccer /  Enjoys cognac, cigar, family, friends, and laughing /
Always fun and optimistic!!!

You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. – William Albert Allard

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Photography has always been a narcissistic endeavor.

At the age of six I fell in love with the art, but what I truly fell for was the way I see the world’s beauty. While in the beginning I was driven to share my vision as a gift to others, I now accept my vision will never be shared, only constantly reinvented. Today, I remember that sunny afternoon on my parent’s patio not as a beginning or an epiphany, but as a cue to the greater purpose I have not yet fully identified.

Can you fall in love through the lens of a camera, or feel the heat of passion on the page of a magazine? Photography is more than a captured moment; it’s captured emotion not so much a stolen soul, but a glimpse behind the eyes of the model; a voyeuristic peak into their experience. This is why the glossy feel of a print can offer the most tactile satisfaction. Why the sound of a shutter can induce a shared experience, and why the smell of developer triggers an involuntary memory in the tradition of French philosopher Marcel Proust. A photograph is a dream, a world that exists, but cannot be owned; not even by the photographer. It exists as a collective sensory experience, that’s neither tangible nor expressible. A photograph is something you must know and accept, while desperately trying to forget, in a vain attempt to continue your more grounded reality.

Photography is insight, an image is an experience. It neither shows us the world we live in, nor the world we should. It reinvents our perception, and shows us something we never imagined. Photography is controversy. Fashion, color, texture, shape, and emotion colliding in offensive and abrupt beauty.

Photography is beyond words.

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