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Sharing some beauty photos from the archives with ya’ll! Some of these are from client shoots while others are personal work and special projects.

Beauty has always been one of my favorite things to photograph. I’ve always been drawn to hair, makeup, color, transformations, and emotional closeups. I love working with talented makeup artists, hairstylists, wardrobe stylists and nail artists. It’s also a treat when I get to work with a beauty model the wears makeup beautifully and moves effortlessly on camera.

Beauty posing is probably one of the harder skills for models to learn because you’re relying on your face to tell the story and sell the product, while still posing head to toe.

Personal Work and Special Projects like editorials and model tests give my team and me freedom to try new things and explore creative ideas we’d like to bring to our client work…. Or just to make something artistic for the sake of art!

It’s also a wonderful excuse to get together, create, and feed our souls.

I’ve been fortunate to work with so many talented creative professionals throughout the years, and I’m grateful for all the beautiful work we’ve created together! 💄 💗

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Okay, I finally get to share more details about one of my favorite projects I designed in NYC. 🎬

Production design for Floating Carousel.. Part 1.

This is basically my favorite part of the job: turning a feeling into a room you can walk through. A beautiful mansion that’s secretly a trap. A cabaret held together by red, teal, and gold, its colors echoing from set to set, bringing you back to the same feeling again and again, like a carousel ride. A New York City apartment we basically stole from a Hopper painting.

Every lamp, every color, every tiny devil figurine was a deliberate choice. Swipe and I’ll show you the thinking behind them.

Part 2 is on its way. (Make duaa for me)

A beautiful NYC Penthouse can still be a cage. Inspired by The Beauty and The Beast.

Velvet and brass draw you in. Checks and bed bars keep you there. We paired luxury with rigid patterns so the mansion feels as controlling as it does inviting.

Ever notice the tiny details in a TV set that sneak in a hidden message? This little devil figurine beside the cocaine was my very subtle way of saying, “Say no to drugs” 😂 Even the bedside decor is trying to warn her.

A canopy bed sounds romantic until you start looking at it as a cage. A bed whose bars frame her inside it. Beautiful bedroom. Very uncomfortable love story.

Once you notice the lines, they’re everywhere. The bed, the lamp, the checks, the staircase railing. We kept repeating them so that feeling of being trapped follows her through the house. Yes, even the staircase has a role.

That painting wasn’t just there because the colors matched. The clashing colors, sharp angles, and sweeping curves in Kandinsky’s Yellow-Red-Blue echoed what she was feeling: attraction and unease, all at once. Sometimes the artwork gets to say what the

Pretty Woman was a reference for the seduction of stepping into someone else’s world. The luxury, the attention, the promise of being cared for. But what happens when making room for him means losing yourself?

The cage imagery and distorted furniture helped me explore that unease: a mansion/Penthouse where everything suggests she has everything, yet none of it feels like hers.

Hopper’s New York

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Some stills from THE AGE OF LOVE. Last week to get tix for SOHO film fest. They are almost gone!! (sohofilmfest.eventive ticket link in bio) See you Saturday night!!!

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Thank you to everyone who helped out with Heap at @springbreakartshow

Thank you @charfromcharlotte for these install photos (and everything ;) )
Thank you @magnusriise for uhauling / loading in with me ✨
Thank you @kattkilcullen for installing the show so beautifully on short notice
Thank you @samsonshutup and @elliott.qttr for helping me paint the room and cracking jokes the whole time
Thank you @will.kaplan for gallery sitting!
Thank you @bravinlee for being the best parents
Thank you @pat_hopkins_art for more amazing install photos (hire him!)
Thank you @_dilly_dalley_ we couldn’t do it without you
Thank you @teke.jpg @tracijohnsonart @melindamkiefer @will.kaplan @charfromcharlotte for sharing your work with me!!

Thank you @springbreakartshow !!!

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The Age of Love will premiere at @sohofilmfest October 10 in New York, New York! My first lead role in a feature film 🖤

Thank you to everyone who put their time and artistic vision into this one. I had so much fun bringing this project together with all of you in just over a short & chaotic month

Special thanks to @davyjoe23 @dark_planet_films @estherthebest @jack.huppert @maximilianisaacs @samsonshutup @shoopsters @lixngeles @bianca_yeh @rollinstudios.official @ant.101

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She swiped right into danger. 🔪💘

Our trailer for FATAL MATCH is here.
A detective goes undercover on dating apps, posing as a woman to catch a serial killer who is targeting women one match at a time.

What started as an idea to just shoot a few more scenes for my reel, became a vertical micro-drama.

Martina Finch Sternfeld wrote it then @reelarc swept in and helped produce and shape the story. I loved collaborating with @ammarbelalofficial on costumes and getting to sit on the casting side of things again. I mean it when I say I couldn’t have done this without @britainlonie and her directorial skills. I would have been a monotone headless chicken without her. @wallace.hallot and his entire camera/lights team blew us away. @pinkyswearnyc served as one of our amazing locations! I’ve got a ton more people to thank but will do so in time!

Watch the trailer. Then tell me… would you swipe right? 👀

#FatalMatch #ShortFilm #IndieFilm #Filmmaker

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Opening part II 📸✨ (@alexskbrown & @addyconroy ) #floatingcarousel

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I don’t know how, but I accidentally deleted Anyone Who Knows off my feed. But that just means I get to share it again. One of my favorite dance films I’ve ever made. A slow burn for the gram but then we’re off to the races :) Always grateful to everyone involved :)

Winner - Experimental Short Film - USA Film Festival
Winner - Best Actress- Marla Phelan - ASVOFF
Finalist - Dance Camera West
Official Selection - Portland Film Festival, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Indie Memphis, Cinequest, Portland Dance Film Festival, New York Shorts

Premiered online with Director’s Notes

Director/ Producer/ Choreographer: @KateHarpootlian
DP: @jon_a_thas
Producer/ 1st AD: @DrowsyGator
Editor/Colorist: @jon_a_thas
Movement Collaborator: @MarlaPhelan
Dancers: @MarlaPhelan & @HaymanCody
Body Double: @AngelPumpkinPie
HMU: @SamsonSmithMUA
Gaffer: @Mario_Nomas
1st AC: @karoline_iversen
2nd AC: @Shot_by_Shadix
Key Grip: @definitelyatget
PAs: @Gerianna_LoTempio, @se_zaar, @Calvin.carter
Equipment: @adoramarentalco
Stills: @jon_a_thas
Womens Clothing - @swaylavintage
Woman’s shoes - @Sam_Edelman
Location: @nycfilmlocations

#DanceFilm #Dance #Screendance #shortfilm #choreography vintage

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late summer moments

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#ItTakesAVillage meet the mayor @greatnowimgreen hair, l#makeupartist #Waterboy 😹🧿🪩 on the set of #probono oh and say mashallah you jelly bellies

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I started little gay guys only a few months ago. I taught myself how to 3d model on @nomadsculpt and how to 3d print on my kobra s1 @anycubicofficial in december 2025.

Im so overwhelmed by the support of my small community, I recieved over 18 preorders, along with some custom orders im already starting to cook.

Tomorrow I will officially have sent out my last batch of preorders for my first launch. My next launch will be even more chaotic, and in between I will be placing 4 plush little gay guys randomly around NYC in august for my birthday.

I hope you all enjoy following the journey, and I hope one day all of you will own at least one of your own little gay guys.

Thank you for being here,

Xoxo, Samson

#bagcharm #smallbusiness #littlegayguys #popmart

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go ny go ny go!

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