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The Moment: Rae and Ghost Chill

Manhattan, August 1995 Back Story The opportunity to photograph Raekwon and Ghostface of the Wu Tang Clan came to me because the publicist at the Black Music Department of RCA called to see if I wanted to shoot "on-spec." Shooting on-spec means there is no official assignment. The record label and publicity department know you are a working press photographer, not on staff. They rely on your motivation to market the photo and consider it a win-win situation if you get their artist into the press. Raekwon and Ghostface had just released their first duo album, Only Built for Cuban...

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