A POV from inside one of the most important gathering spaces for Black creativity, culture, and entrepreneurship.

I crashed CultureCon with a camera.

Not really knowing exactly what I was going to capture, I decided to let In-Studio TV do what it was created to do: document the world around me from my perspective.

CultureCon felt like a natural environment for that.

For me, In-Studio has always been about more than sitting down for an interview. It’s about creating a moving archive of the people, ideas, conversations, and cultural moments that exist around my practice. CultureCon gave me an opportunity to step outside of the studio and into a much larger ecosystem.

I brought the camera with me and started collecting POV footage—walking through the convention, running into friends, reconnecting with former collaborators, meeting new people, and getting perspectives from people who are actively shaping culture in their own way.

What stood out most was the energy of the space.

There was something powerful about being surrounded by that many Black creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, founders, designers, media personalities, and cultural thinkers in one place. It felt like a temporary city built around ideas. Everybody seemed to be building something, talking about something, launching something, or figuring out what comes next.

And because I've spent so much of my career moving between art, fashion, music, design, and culture, I found myself looking at CultureCon through that same lens.

Not as an outsider documenting an event, but as someone participating in the ecosystem.

The people I ran into became the story.

Some were friends. Some were collaborators I've worked with in the past. Some were people I've been connected to through different chapters of my career. And others were complete strangers who I happened to meet because I had a camera in my hand.

That unpredictability is really what I wanted from the footage.

CultureCon is interesting because it represents a particular kind of Black cultural power—the ability to build our own spaces, create our own conversations, develop our own businesses, and connect with one another outside of traditional structures.