Lifted Research Group and Twenty Grand Vodka presents the Gucci Mane photography exhibit. The photo exhibition by photographer, Cam Kirk will feature never-before-seen photos of the Big Guwop and M.V.P. [Most Valuable Prisoner] himself, Gucci Mane.
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“I converted an abandoned church in East Atlanta into a Trap Sanctuary fit for The Trap God,” Kirk tells Mass Appeal. “I’ve got actors in there; they’re going to play certain roles when you walk in. So it’s going to take shape of like a haunted house feeling, where you walk in and there are different things to experience. It should feel like you literally walked in to the house of the Trap God.”
Although the photography exhibition falls six days behind of the 10th anniversary of Gucci’s debut studio album – May 24 – Kirk said that he didn’t plan on the dates to line up, because he began shooting the 1017 rapper back in 2012.
What year did you start shooting him?
I didn’t start shooting photos until probably 2012. I did some video work before then, but 2012 was the year I really started to get things going. The first artist that let me shoot for him, the most consistent, was Young Scooter. I travelled with Scooter a lot during his whole run, and that’s kind of how I got around Gucci and was able to [get on] close terms with and actually take some photos of him. That was so early in my career that photography wasn’t even a focus for me. I was really doing more video blogs and stuff like that, so it was cool that I actually got some dope photos of Gucci. But I never put them out, I never really knew what to do with them. I knew I just wanted to hold them for something worthwhile—because that’s Gucci Mane. Now he’s become such a bigger icon than when I first was around him, so I’m happy I was able to save something big. I thought I was going to do a book, but I don’t think I want to do that. This [exhibit] is the best way to bring these photos to life.
This is something that I can not wait to see. Excited for Cam and Gucci!
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