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shannon

shannonmccollum

About Me

Me in Ghana West Africa documenting Delta's "Force for Global Good"Tao Ruspoli interviews photojournalist Shannon Mccollum, official photographer for dead prez, outkast, lil jon, and other hip hop giants. Shannon discusses his work, his ambitions, his techniques and more.Leaving Lil Jon's beach house, Lil Jon speaks candidly about his experience working with Photojournalist Shannon McCollum...

My Interests

Watching documentaries and traveling the globe!

I'd like to meet:

Cool people that are into some cool sh!T NO Fake Plastic Trees (please)

Music:

Aww man Im a music head so I like everything under the sun from Nina Simone,John Coltrane,Miles Davis,Sting, Radiohead (all they sh!t) Led Zepplin,zero7, Donald Byrd,Abbey Lincoln & Camron to Snoop Im all over the map on my music.
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Movies:

Lots of independent movies I don't really have a fav on movies I love alot of them

Television:

MTV,VH1& ESPN and PBS

Books:

Autobiography of John Coltane,Autobiography of Miles Davis and The Art of Happiness

Heroes:

My parents and John Coltrane

My Blog

Santiago Chile w/Dead Prez 8’07

I just want to start by saying you have no clue how live Hip Hop is til you attend a concert out the country. It is one of the most rewarding things to see when you live in the US and Hip Hop gets so ...
Posted by shannon on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:56:00 PST

Ghana

Ghana was amazing actually one of my dreams to photograph. when Delta Air Line ask me if I wouid come for 9 days I jumped at the chance. U mean pay me to come photograph Ghana for 9 days HELL YEAH let...
Posted by shannon on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:54:00 PST

Yo I just spoke at UGA w/Dr.Joyce on Southern Hip Hop

Today I spoke at UGA w/Dr.Joyce my homegirl she's a beast at speaking! She's just gotten her PHD in this Hip Hop game. She's written Lil Jon's bio T.I."s bio Michael 5000 Watts bio a regular contribu...
Posted by shannon on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:51:00 PST

Amsterdam w/dead prez 1/26/07 thru 1/29/07

In Amsterdam dead prez shared a bill w/The Boot camp click and Special Ed it was PACKED from wall to wall. First and formost the venue was a old church w/incredible acoustic's.  The crowd went nu...
Posted by shannon on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:30:00 PST

Touring w/Dead Prez through Europe

Yo I just wanted to start by saying first and formost im honored to work w/dead prez there legends in this game! Touring through europe was a incredible experience filming and shooting stills. I start...
Posted by shannon on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:05:00 PST

My Erykah Badu Shoot 8/7/06

Yo yesterday 8/6/06 I had the pleasure of photographing Erykah Badu she was in full creative mode which made the shoot beautiful. Her energy was very calm joking alot at total relax comfort mode. A on...
Posted by shannon on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:33:00 PST

Being on MTV'S Sweet 16

About a month ago in september I got a call to shoot the behind the scenes of the new girl on the show Super Sweet 16. It was interesting to see how for two days the cameras followed us on o...
Posted by shannon on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:36:00 PST

THE ANGER MGMT. TOUR

My last month has been a great run I just finished the Anger Mgmt. tour so if you read my last blog I wasn't sure if I was gonna go on the tour well yes I did can I tell you for the people that have n...
Posted by shannon on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:41:00 PST

Black Biker's Weekend

Yo my partner & I went to Mytrle Beach over the weekend to shoot the Black Bikers event for a DVD this cat hired us to film. When I say the Hoochie Momma's where showing skin Im not lieing! It's a...
Posted by shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Meeting John Legend

Well today is the day after mother's day and I have been busy as hell w/alot of projects. Over the past month I've had the chance to photograph some really cool musicans. First up was John Legend a qu...
Posted by shannon on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST