(Featured image: all rights reserved © Rikesh Chauhan)
In 2015, I experienced a personal tragedy. I had to take some time off work to heal but I also needed distractions. One of them was to make a cultural “sister” site to Sampleface.
It has since been deleted but I tweeted my friend RKZ to say I should start a culture blog to showcase his photography and call it Cultureface (as it was known at the time). His response?
And so it began. But over 5 years have passed and I still hadn’t got round to doing that blog post. Until today.
Who is RKZ?
Besides being a childhood friend since junior school, RKZ (real name Rikesh Chauhan) is a singer, writer, photographer, music video director, producer, editor, social media manager and all-round creative polymath. I’ve had the pleasure of working with RKZ in the past and his attention to detail and creativity is second to none. I don’t know many photographers with an eye like his, although some say he has two.
He’s worked with a wide range of brands, agencies and organisations such as Turnbull & Asser, Born Social, CALM, and most recently, The Rake. He’s also a careers mentor at University of Westminster where he studied and graduated in 2011.
A king of sartorial snaps
Unfortunately, I can’t embed these anymore so you’ll have to follow the links and trust me that RKZ is an awesome photographer and champion styl… ist.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CnwTI-sshoi/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqm64MfMZlD/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CqyPjEfMXgc/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDI_E4opalt/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2TQz-HHyeL/
Follow him on Instagram for more of the same. The drip is everlasting.