'Living A Dream': Saatchi Gallery celebrates hip hop with joyful new photography exhibition
Boomboxes, breakdancers, and beats: a culture that changed the world. The Saatchi Gallery’s latest exhibition is offering a photographic deep dive into the rise of hip hop.
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00:00During the time I was photographing him, he rolled and smoked three blunts.
00:30My name is Gregory Bohorkas. I started taking pictures as a teenager and sometime in my 20s I started doing it for a living.
00:40You know, there wasn't a lot of people taking photos, so, you know, down the line people started contacting me to take photos for, you know, publicity type stuff for record companies.
00:51But, you know, for every job I did I just tried to do the best job I could no matter what the circumstance.
01:00Well, Mike Tyson, we went to Vegas and he was going to start a record company called Tyson Records.
01:08As I was shooting him, he kept on saying, Tyson Records, yo, Tyson Records, we're going to take over the world, Tyson Records.
01:14So, he stood on the car right here, the interior is like really fair, it's light, and when I looked back in the seat, you know, it was all dirty from his boot, and I'm like, wow, look, you know, but I'm sure he has someone that can clean that up, you know.
01:30I had been tattooed by Cartoon.
01:34He was tattooing at a really well-known tattoo shop in Hollywood called Bob Robert and Charlie Robert Spotlight Tattoo.
01:43He let me know that Eminem was going to be there to get a tattoo and that I should come take some photos, and, you know, and that's exactly what I did, you know.
01:53He hung out, and he got his tattoo, and another friend showed up, and we were drinking tequila.
02:03Snoop Dogg was living just outside of L.A. in a place called Chino Hills, and during the time I was photographing him, he rolled and smoked three blunts of weed,
02:15so, you know, I got him exhaling the smoke on this one, and the result was pretty good.
