{"id":12,"date":"2007-11-08T15:22:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T20:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2013-10-02T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:55:25","slug":"charlie-hustle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Hustle &#8211; Andrew Dosunmu"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n--><\/style>\n<p class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richlouis\/1806018875\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2290\/1806018875_0429b39103.jpg?w=1021\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richlouis\/1806018875\/\">ANDREw DOSUNMU circa 2002<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/richlouis\/\">richlouis<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">I have always liked this picture I took of Photography\/filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewdosunmu.com\/\">Andrew Dosunmu<\/a>, who&#8217;s picture you word find next to word hustle.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a quick-moving slightly lanky, energetic Nigerian who I met through Photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcbaptiste.com\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Baptiste<\/a>. He had already been shooting videos for the likes of Les Nubians and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004S51H?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehomelands-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00004S51H\">Common<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"uxsohrgcqywpdheebzfz\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thehomelands-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00004S51H\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> and done styling for shoots, and at the moment really pushing his photography career. This was 2002 and he&#8217;s come so far since then (his book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1576873242?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehomelands-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1576873242\">The African Game<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"uxsohrgcqywpdheebzfz\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thehomelands-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1576873242\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>, can be purchased to the right) .<\/p>\n<p>What i do know about him is that he&#8217;s always on-the-go thinking of the next project to work on and the next person he can sell his skills to. And he travels. He is very much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delphinediawdiallo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">another artist<\/a> I know, fearless even in the face of hidden fear.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings this whole hustle ethic to me. I am sitting here at my Freelance Proofreading job of six months plus where i received a response (great qualifications but don&#8217;t fit what they are looking for) to my application for a sales and research assistant position at a well-known photography rep agency. I still feel like I am swimming in kid section of a large pool and still have not learned the unspoken rules to wade into the big people side of the people. It seems it&#8217;s a lot different set of tricks to get into the business side of photography as opposed to being a photographer.<\/p>\n<p>So I am still at a loss and still trying get into the hustle frame of mind. I know very well that I have no plans on staying in proofing and regular research, so I have to make multiple things happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDREw DOSUNMU circa 2002, originally uploaded by richlouis. I have always liked this picture I took of Photography\/filmmaker Andrew Dosunmu, who&#8217;s picture you word find next to word hustle. He&#8217;s a quick-moving slightly lanky, energetic Nigerian who I met through Photographer Marc Baptiste. He had already been shooting videos for &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=12\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[26],"tags":[60,10,29],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portrait","tag-andrew-dosunmu","tag-hustle","tag-photographer","post--featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/1806018875_0429b39103.jpg?fit=328%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EmB-c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=232","url_meta":{"origin":12,"position":0},"title":"This is a Thank You Photographer Post","date":"8 Aug \u201908","format":false,"excerpt":"Stella Magloire One of the first photographers I meet and befriended While it's easy to worry only about yourself as an artist. 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