Studio photography portraits with Cayman Islands based Cuban Sax Player, musician and entertainer Denys Carbo.

Denys is an incredibly talented musician and possibly the most polite and friendly person I’ve ever met. It was fantastic to get him in the studio in George Town, Cayman Islands for these cool portraits.

As a portrait photographer I’m always looking out for cool or interesting people to do portrait photography with. When I’m photographing one person alone I feel like I have more room for creativity, and when the subject has a passion like yoga, fire spinning or playing guitar then it gives then something to do in their photos without feeling too awkward, especially if they’re not an experienced model.

Though Andre is not an experienced model he has a cool look to him, and my aim was to get some authentic images that captured his personality and his passion for performing music.

Life is good here in the Cayman Islands, great weather, easy to get around, everyone is friendly… but we don’t have a lot of live music here! So when it was announced that Kaaboo Festival was coming to Grand Cayman, and that they needed a bunch of photographers from the island to document the festival, I was pretty excited. The event organisers selected me as one of the event photographers, and they saw that I produced timelapse and hyperlapse films. They loved what they saw and wanted me to produce a timelapse film for the festival.

This lifestyle photoshoot with guitarist and vocalist/flamenco duo – Nathan & Elina is one of my favourite photoshoots ever. These two talented musicians were amazing to work with. I saw them performing around Grand Cayman and just had to work with them. They both had such great chemistry together which was ideal for lifestyle portrait photography.

We covered a few locations in and around Rum Point and East End. We ended the photoshoot during sunset at Barefoot Beach, a magical spot with a stone stairway that leads to the sea. Fortunately Elina and Nathan were both up for getting in the water and I got some epic shots of them silhouetted in the vibrant sunset. All in all I feel I captured their Latin American influenced style pretty well. I have since worked on a music video with them which was also amazing to produce, check it out here.

Listen to Nathan Herrera’s music here.

When I found out I was going to be photographing a gig on Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman I was looking forward to it as we don’t get many gigs here. When I found out it was Jazz and Soul singer Aloe Blacc I was truly excited. Aloe Blacc and his band put on an amazing show, performing hits songs “I Need A Dollar“, “I’m The Man” and “Wake Me Up” they had the Cayman audience dancing all night. A great show at the wonderful setting at the Kimpton Seafire in Grand Cayman.