BEST SELLER! Featured by The New York Times, Juxtapoz, Visionaire online, Rolling Stone online, Jet magazine, Time Out Dubai, NPR, and more; with photographs recently featured in Netflix's series Hip-Hip Evolution!

10 x 9 horizontal hardcover; 104 pages; $50.00

ISBN: 978-0-9906036-03

The Bronx—Paris—Los Angeles—early 1990s—Hip hop. This culture of music, dance, art and fashion is forever in its nascent and most authentic in Here I Am, the first monograph of Lisa Leone’s photographs. From Nas in the first studio recordings for what would become Illmatic to Snoop on the set of his first video, from ingénue Debi Mazar hanging on the stoops of the West Village to Grandmaster Flash at a RockSteady reunion, Leone’s photographs open portals to the sounds, places and, most important, the people who forged and continue to influence the energy that is hip hop.

“Hip Hop was an amalgamation of disciplines that coexisted and collectively changed the world we knew. Today its divided existence pales to its once innocent intentions of being acknowledged. Lisa’s photography captures a culture in transition; it is through her lens that one can appreciate the journey of the young artists who helped pave the way for generations to come.” —Mare139

Here I Am complements a traveling exhibition of the same name that opened at the Bronx Museum of the Arts; selected prints have been shown in Miami, Los Angeles, and Dubai. For exhibit fees, shipping, and availability of the exhibition please email info@minormattersbooks.com

Bronx-born Lisa Leone infuses her frames with sound and motion, pointing to what would become her multi-faceted way of seeing through both photography and cinema. More