Gunner Stahl Interview: Carti's Supreme Tee, Photography for Opium, Originality, Publishing a Book

Start selling on Shopify today http://shopify.com/kidstakeover FOLLOW US   / kidstakeover   Host & Producer   / ktoarshan   Thumbnail photo https://www.instagram.com/tlawwwww?ig... Filming   / wav3_visuals     / mikkyfilmz   Editing   / mikkyfilmz   Extra Production + Research   / jack.kissane     / noahselllers     / antoniojohri   Special thanks   / vivekxrama     / noahsafian   For this interview, Arshan sat down with Gunner Stahl at Shopify’s SoHo space for the second iteration of our ‘KTO Live in New York’ event series, following our last live event with Cole Bennet. This event included a full day of programming, including: networking for creatives, an educational talk from Kids Take Over founder Arshan Jawaid about building and monetizing an independent media company, a listening-to-music session with the audience, and, finally, the live interview with our special guest, the renowned photographer and music video director, Gunner Stahl. In their conversation, Gunner dives into his career’s journey that began 10 years ago in Atlanta after quitting his job at Dick’s Sporting Goods to pursue photography using a borrowed film camera from his friend. Quickly, Gunner became rap’s go-to photographer after documenting some of 2016’s most iconic images, ranging from Lil Yachty to The Weeknd to Playboi Carti. Since then, Gunner has worked closely with the Opium camp and been trusted with shooting album covers for Carti, Ken Carson, and Destroy Lonely, alongside Metro Boomin’s ‘HEROES & VILLAINS.’ Gunner also talks about what went into the creation of his book ‘Portraits: I Have So Much To Tell You’ and other creative ventures that haven’t yet seen the light of day, like his unreleased album with Aminé & Pi'erre Bourne. To cap off the interview we opened up to the audience to showcase their photography and ask Gunner questions. Watch the full interview to see! TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Inspiring photographers 1:45 - Working at Dick’s Sporting Goods 2:05 - Wanting to be a teacher 3:07 - Failing Photography class in High School 3:35 - Being self taught 4:07 - The 1 photo that inspired Gunner’s career 4:53 - Using film not digital 6:00 - How to find your style 6:48 - Can you making a living in photography? 8:16 - How to set your rate 9:18 - Networking as a photographer 10:15 - Gunner’s approach to a shoot 11:28 - Becoming Opium’s go to photographer 13:11 - Bucket-list photo: Anne Hathaway 13:57 - Hating studios 15:17 - Unreleased album with Aminé & Pi'erre Bourne 18:06 - Favorite coming of age films 19:41 - Directing a Toro y Moi scored movie 20:07 - Directing The Weeknd & Ken Carson videos 20:47 - Approach to Ken’s “catastrophe” 22:32 - Directing “Timeless” 24:00 - MUSIC era, fit pics 24:40 - ‘Project X’ for Ken Carson 25:45 - Shooting Playboi Carti’s Self Titled album cover 26:36 - Metro Boomin on fire for album cover 27:58 - Scrapped “NOSTYLIST” photo for Lone 29:12 - Shooting the Supreme T-shirt 30:53 - Every shoot being perfect 31:22 - DMX turning him down 31:55 - Documenting the entire 2016 era (Yachty, X, 21 Savage) 33:10 - Importance of photographers in music 34:53 - Fit pics 35:53 - Gunner’s biggest mistake 36:51 - Gunner critiques audience photos 37:24 - Feedback on Photo by @andrethe.ii 37:56 - Feedback on Photo by @krus.us 38:58 - Feedback on Photo by @yth.cltr 39:36 - Feedback on Photo (couldn’t find @) 40:18 - Feedback on Photo by @urbexdaniiel 40:55 - (Fan Q&A) Hating being photographed 42:13 - (Fan Q&A) Making his portrait book 43:24 - (Fan Q&A) Originality vs. inspo/homage 44:47 - (Fan Q&A) Liking tana, ApolloRed1 45:38 - (Fan Q&A) Dealing with Atlanta/industry politics 47:20 - (Fan Q&A) Creative burn out & video games Tags: (ignore) gunner stahl gunner stahl playboi carti playboi carti photography photography supreme supreme portraits portraits opium opium destroy lonely destroy lonely ken carson ken carson aminé aminé pi’erre bourne pi’erre bourne metro boomin metro boomin the weeknd the weeknd