No More Ropes. Don't Forget About the Chains.

June 14, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

A Need to Move Above and Beyond.

The fact of the matter for me is that in my opinion, African Americans are anchored and stuck in place running in place because of what we hold on to so fiercely and dearly…which is in being “Black”. Living and striving to adhere to this term of “Black”. While it’s even understood that the idea and concept of “Black” was a term established and coined by White scholars to formalize the distinction between those that were pure White and those that were not. A term coined by the White is a term—seemingly the definitive term—that people all across the world have to come to acknowledge. Black and Blackness and everything else that comes with is what needs to be challenged. This is what needs to change. The overhaul that needs to happen needs to happen to such a degree that is perhaps shakes the foundations of everything that they’ve strived to construct for us.

There’s a lot within the African American communities that seem to sow some sort of division at some point in time or another. The fact that because of our diversity, we are left complicated over nuanced is a misnomer and is purely based upon perception but that or those perceptions are and become significant to those within it.

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CONVEYING ME.

June 12, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THE HURDLE TO OVERCOME SOMETIMES IS IN FINDING TRUE SELF-VALUE AND CONFIDENCE.

A friend of mine commented that no one really knows who I am. No one really knows what I’m all about. It was said that with everything going on within the Communities of Color, it would be nice to use as many of my resources as possible to be a part of my Artistry. I should be a part of my art and artwork catalogue.

As a perspective that African Americans, Black and Brown People, and People Color, Ethnicity and Culture are seeing efforts of adversity, trial and tribulation today, I believe there’s an inherent importance to capturing and conveying not only the concepts, ideas, and works I do but also in capturing and conveying myself. My being. My existence. My identity…as Black Man, an African American Man, a Melanated Man of this modern world. While my social media omits much of my life for safety, privacy and security reasons, it’s perhaps time to strive to just convey more of me…especially as my own work of art and creativity. My life as Creative Living or Living Creatively.

Perhaps if this is done well, a series titled “A Black Family: Living Creatively”? Perhaps. 😉

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WITHIN THE CHAOS WE'RE STILL CREATING!

June 09, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Starting at a place of simplicity within on the digital canvas, we introduce…

The “DRAWN LINE” Series.

This digital series is developed and dedicated to the idea of simplicity while representing a refinement of African American, Black and Brown, and Ethnic Identity, Community and Culture.

With all that is going on, eventually at some point a line must be drawn.

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LAYING OUT NūH™ FOUNDATIONS.

May 31, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

COACHING & CONSULTING: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WHILE BEING AN ARTIST.

With a lot happening in the world today where African Americans, Black and Brown People and other People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture see things shifting right beneath their feet, thru Art, Design and Photography, our goal is help artists and creatives to discover, develop and achieve newer levels of opportunity, potential and success. As we believe in the Arts and Creativity to influence and inform, we staying committed to continuing on the agenda of creating to impact and influence.

“A GOLDEN LINE” 'Digital Artwork - Procreate - © 2026 Liam Ian (LIAM IAN LLC) - There come moments where we must draw the line on the things that would hurt or harm us in life. As an Artist and Creator, we must acknowledge when and where the line must drawn and start from there. NūH values. NūH principles. Sometimes even a NūH you.

Principles, Priorities and Paradigms.

While the world seems to be on a runaway train to no where good due to the magnification and exacerbation of social issues via social media, technologies and high profile agendas, we believe in the fundamentals of self-governance and structuring for progressive life management. One big difference we notice between the rich and the poor is the investment in management dynamics and practices. Where in being within the fields of Art, Design and Photography (…including Entrepreneurship), we’ve also gained experience and an understanding of how those within politics, executive management, finance and other high-end and impactful occupations must operate to be and stay effective. Self-management. Organized and thoughtful Self-management practices that serve as the foundations and frameworks of ones everyday.

Despite being an artist, we believe in self-review and reflection on a daily and continual basis to frame the world and oneself within it appropriately. Sometimes it’s just an effective aspect of ones everyday to review. Whether in meditation, workout, journaling or regular situational mediation, we believe in introspection—the assessing of ones own thoughts, ideas and feelings to better gain an objective view of the world for themselves. While may not always be about clarity, it is about communication. Some of the most effective artists have been those who know at the minimum what they’re seeking to communicate. Principles, Priorities and Paradigms are the key.

Click here for the complete writing of PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WHILE BEING AN ARTIST.

Click here for our writings on Principles, Priorities and Paradigms and Independence and Responsibility.

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DOUBLING DOWN ON THAT MELANIN!

May 25, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

While as an artistic operation dedicated to People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture, we don’t shy away from acknowledging and appreciating the existence and presence of others. With that said, we are continuing on the path of creating for all people…with a specific concentration and focus on African Americans and People of Color. We are not exclusionary but will do as we must in response to what this world has created and wrought.

Many months in at this point, we’re continuing to do what businesses do and reposition to contribute to and capitalize on the opportunities presented. Through Art, Design and Photography, we want to continue the journey of moving forward and beyond the confines that hold us. “Intelligence. Ethnicity. Innovation.” is our mantra as it defines the future in our eyes.

THE GREATEST ART & ARTISTRY IS THAT OF THE HUMAN BEING & BEING HUMAN; LIVING.

In our work, we are continuing to create. We are creating as an acknowledgement and response to the that which the universe has created and provided, the human being. We are going to continue to ficus on what it is to be artists and cultivating spaces that appreciate, encourage and inspire healthy living for all people with a dynamic focus on People of Color.

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MISUNDERSTOOD TO REDESIGN AND REDEFINE.

May 07, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THE TRUEST EFFORT IS TO BREAK THE CHAINS WE MAY NEVER ACKNOWLEDGE OR PAY ATTENTION TO GET TO A NūH PLACE AND SPACE.

With research or imagination—incorporating both or manifesting individually—we’re creating to reimagine, redesign and redefine.

I don’t want to be understood. I don’t want to conform. I don’t want to fit in.

I want to fight because I know where I’m from…but that fight has to be so that I can become something more than what I am today. I don’t want folks to know who I am but more to experience and discover it. Complex. Rude. Honest. Loyal…yet difficult and sophisticated and multifaceted. I’m meant to be much more than just what I was born as.

I am NūH.

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THIS IS THE TIME...

May 05, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

TO TRULY LIVE LIKE IT’S YOUR LAST…AND THEN SOME.

I’m many things but firstly, I’m a body of divine energy. I’m an extension of the Universe. I am a form—an incarnation—of life. I am the essence of all that is and all that has been. I was born an artist and so that is what resides at my core. I am a Father, a husband, a friend, an employee, and an entrepreneur. I’m complicated and sophisticated. I’m difficult yet honest. I am alive today…and by nature or not I am set to transition from this form…and so…

I am creating with meaning. We are creating with meaning—meaning and purpose. From Art and Design and into Photography, there’s meaning and a purpose. The meaning being what we’re doing this year is a set of things that can only be conveyed and understood by those meant, aligned and in tune with the message. The purpose is to encourage and empower those individuals within this world and beyond into this world and beyond.

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JUST A PERSPECTIVE!

April 06, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Sometimes the truth is just dope as fuck. Let the truth piss ‘em off.

@VICMENSA

*We do not own the above imagery. WE support and post them for educational purposed to inform. We are encouraged, informed and inspired by them for the communities and cultures we serve. Please contact us for Source and Ownership information and for removal requests where applicable.

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NUANCED & COMPLICATED.

March 11, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

IT’S ALL A MATTER OF PARADIGM AND PERSPECTIVE…YET STILL NO ONE’S PERFECT.

My works—our works—may not be for everyone but represent one; Liam Ian Black.

I’m profound in my own ways. I strive for us to be profound in our own ways. We’re not meant for everyone…so be careful…because we really couldn’t care what you think.

*While we’re still in business, we’re here to just create Art. Artistic Design. Artistic Photography. All that and whatever else we decide to call Art.

Furthering our efforts to develop and realize The NūHUMAN Project and Foundation, we’re moving away from ideas that capitalism and more towards building community under the premise, guise and foundation of newer and better forms of communication for better forms of identity.

As we strive to continue to do things of and for the Black and Brown Communities—People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture—we’re committed to engaging and involving all people. We’re committed to engaging and involving ALL people. All people…because we are all one. We are ALL one!

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THE WORLD HAS CHANGED...

January 25, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

…AND SO SHOULD WE.

Fact of the matter is that things have changed. Dangerously so but yes, the world has changed and yet it still intends and continues to spin on.

We’ve fought a lot about alignment and cohesion. We’ve fought over doing things in ways that “make sense” as to gain some degree of community visibility and identity reinforcing a sense of public trust…but that has not happened. Even as being within the North Bethesda Community, we haven’t seen too much progress in community building or even visibility…but it is what it is.

As it comes down to Art, Design and Photography, there’s so much that we still have yet to discuss and consider. As an operation, we have the same goals which are to contribute to the world but with much change having happened, we’re looking to shift our paradigms. Especially because who we are and what we are matters within the realm of Art and Artistic Expression as it affects the rest of the worlds around us, a further catering to the Black and Brown African American communities stands firm.

THE ART SHOULD REFLECT THE TIMES.

As creatives, it’s really important to be tune with what informs you—the world around you. It’s important to take notice to the things going on because art captures the mind’s creative vision in the midst of thought, time, influence and circumstance. Where our minds are matters when we create which is why the process of creation should not be limiting or limited but expanded upon. The order of chaos and the chaos of order if nothing else should be entertained as an artist where what makes sense can almost—if not more—be equal to that of those things that do not. We are truly residing in a time where things most certainly do not make sense…but then again…

BEING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ARTIST

Most of what I strive to do has everything to do with being an African American Male Artist. Sexist and opinionated and confident only as a means of hiding hurt, pain and trauma. Again, having grown up in the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s my goals are set in being real and authentic no matter who that bothers or offends. I only want to be that which I’ve been at conflict for so long—that which is truly…me. The good and the bad. The chaos and the order. I am all things that this life has been and has made me as today.

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NūH™

January 18, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

IT TRULY IS TIME TO TRY SOMETHING NūH™.

Yes, it is about the Art. Yes, it is about Design. Yes, it is about Photography.

It is also about a new sense of spirituality and identity as a result.

It is the spirit of being human. It is the POWER of being human. It is that all human beings are descendants of those Melanated Peoples from thousands of years ago.

A Message:

*As an business representing an African American Artist and Artistry, we’re dedicated to using our resources of creation to create for the further appreciation, encouragement and inspiration of Black and Brown People, Identities, Communities and Cultures.

What it means to be a NūHUMAN is to move beyond the confines of what was to develop what can be. It is about the next stage of being human. Shedding the skin of the old and burdensome in favor of concepts, ideas and philosophies to catapult us into the future, it is truly about unity—unity for being Human.

The Statement:

We are now beyond the definitions, measurements and descriptions mandated from others to define our identities, our activities, and the construction of our worlds, realities and lives. We are NūHUMANS!

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2026 AND NEW THOUGHTS!

January 11, 2026 / William Burrell Philpot IV

NOT #JusTHOUGHTS…but then again.

Of some of the greatest differences between animals and humans is the ability—our ability—to create worlds. Humans are capable of perceiving the world to imagine and reimagine then to work towards creating and manifesting those thoughts—those…ideas and concepts. We can perceive and critically think about those things around us—physical and non-physical. We can create our worlds where we’re truly free to do so. Without manipulation and influence, we have the power to create our own spaces and places that not resemble and represent who we are but also influence us for the future.

In light of all that has occurred in 2025 and even currently, we as a business are engaged in developing products and activities to further appreciate, encourage and inspire Black and Brown individuals, entities and communities for the future. We believe in conscious work. We believe in conscious and intentional work to create the worlds we need and deserve. It may not seem like what might be needed but it’s what we’re providing based on what we believe and are coming from…and that’s that the Melanated deserve more than what’s ever been given!

INTELLIGENCE. ETHNICITY. INNOVATION.

*While there are many things going on, we must not forget to take time to look within to see where we are as a people in order to move forward. Keep in mind that all that’s being done is because of fear—their fear. This was an important time for them to gain power because the landscape has been changing and changing quite quickly. Black and Brown and other People have been able to see progress and success via technologies, knowledge, information and access to new kinds of markets. With all this chaos, we become entrenched and encompassed in thoughts and ideas about self-pride and identity in the form of freedom and rights. We must not forget to look beyond the today and the ideas of today about the future. They’re already looking towards the future where they are supreme. They feel unburdened by issues and obstacles and oppression. They and theirs will feel empowered and free and that “empowerment” and “freedom” allows for room and space for thought.

We must continue to think of ourselves beyond the confines they’re continuing to try to burden us by. Some of us must think further and further into the future because the future deserves for us to. Let us be further encouraged, inspired and empowered by our adversities to build and build better upon what was before. While we continue the fight for today, let us give a way for the next to fight for tomorrow…today and always into their tomorrows.

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SOMETHING THAT MATTERS!

December 30, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Inspired by select reads and self-development programs, for 2026 we’re using our creative pursuits to inspire other motivational pursuit to encourage and inspire.

Our art—the Art of Liam Ian Black and others—is to reflect who we are and where we stand. Where we’re from and where we’re headed.

I’m a Father and Husband while being an Artist, Designer and Photographer. I’ve been moderately loved and almost abundantly hated for ensuring my own survival. I’ve endured child abuse and abandonment and even lies about my father only to never learn the truth. I’ve existed in a place and space where I questioned my own existence being told that I shouldn’t be here and that I wasn’t intended because “she” wasn’t in love with my father…which is why she couldn’t remember who he was.

I’ve seen loss. I’ve known disappointment. I’ve wrestled with existing within lies when those lies have made the dimension, reality and life that was once me and my identity. I’ve known what it's like to feel like the step-child and to never truly feel accepted or included—fully included and accepted.

Returning to the ideals of self-work thru self-reflection not for self-mastery but to truly give and contribute to others.

I’ve known solitude and loneliness. I’ve known the feeling of helplessness within busy packed rooms. I’ve known what it feels like to cry only to have people believe you’re “doing too much” or exaggerating your pain. I’ve known what it feels like to be caged and even starved. I’ve known what it feels like to be reduced down to noting more than a burden…and out of all of this…

I’ve come to believe that my continued existence…is…divine. Divine. No more divine than anyone else’s but that which would be unique to every unique individual. This unique life of mine is uniquely divine.

*As we move forward, we’re striving to keep artists, designers, photographers and entrepreneurs appreciated, encouraged and inspired. We’re reducing our pricing for the new year for Coaching and Consultations.

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WE LOVE BLACK WOMEN!

December 27, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Whether it’s love or the perversion of lust, it is what it is which has made me the man that I am. I am who I am and to be honest, I love it. I love me…because I love Black Women.

As an Artist, Designer and Photographer, most of my creative ideas have been informed, influenced and fueled by the beauty of Black Women. Whether toxic or not, I’m a man who loves the scene of the Black Woman. While I enjoy the sight of all physically attractive women, Black Women will always take the cake. Perhaps a bit over-sexualized at times, I do—therefore we do—enjoy all that is the Black Woman.

We don’t and won’t shy away from what has existed for so long to help others create industries, markets and careers. Yes, sex sells and it has inform me in how I like to create Art, how I develop a Design, and how I like to shoot photography. My ideas come from growing up in the heavy magazine era—a pre-social media cellphone time. VIBE, The Source, XXL, Black Men, GQ, and even Playboy, women have held healthy prominent roles in relation to business and the heterosexual Black Man’s identity and ideas on the manhood. I’m a product of this. Music and music videos and other cultural influences having impacted me, the commercial art of the magazine is what has informed me…and so…

FVK™ MAGAZINE - WE LOVE BLACK WOMEN!

Of the greatest artistry of this world, the woman—the Black Woman—reigns supreme to us. Fully clothed, professionally dressed, swimsuit, lingerie, or even nude, we are accepting the natural artistry that is the Black Woman. With that, we are commissioning a dedicated project to feature Black Women as Inspiring Natural Art for Artists and Creatives. While there may not be any redeemable qualities (as it was mentioned to me) about projects of this nature, we also understand industries and businesses and even artists incorporate sex, sensuality and sexuality for their level of perceived integrity and honesty to what it is to be human—an art of being human. Well as an experiment, we’re going to continue to develop and run with this.

BLACK WOMEN. BLACK MEN. BLACK FAMILY. BLACK COMMUNITY. BLACK CULTURE.

The approach to balance is in acknowledging, appreciating and celebrating the best and greatest of Black Community and Culture. Everything that informs, influences and inspires healthy artistry for the future of the Black Community and Culture. We feel it’s all connected. Whether it is sex or sensuality, it’s needed for the union of two to become one and create families. What it means for a man to be attracted to a woman and a woman to be attracted to a man. While there’s controversy there, it has—in its most natural and carnal form—help to build societies, businesses and civilizations.

Yes—yes indeed—sex sells and it is an unfortunate and dysfunctional sometimes diminishing aspect yet prominent part of Black Culture and Life. It is however what has developed and shaped many of us into this modern day. Despite over-saturating and manipulating our perceptions, the fact is that the woman—the Black Woman—is and will always be the sex symbol—the goddess amongst men and so she inspires creation. She inspires creation and artistry for she is creation…and…artistry.

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LIAM IAN™

December 08, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

THE JOURNEY IS ALSO ABOUT ALIGNMENT.

LIAM IAN LLC @ TUMBLR

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WEEK 50 - JUST 2 MORE WEEKS TO GO!

December 07, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

PRODUCTS, PROJECTS & SERVICES

We’re just a few weeks away from the end of 2025 and it’s been something of an interesting ride. With the different situations and circumstances introduced by the current US Administration, we’ve seen Communities of Color greatly impacted in more ways than one. While the political, social and socio-economic scenes undergo activity, change and impact, we see our priority to further develop and curate products, projects and services as essential. We are here to still serve.

2026 PLANNING PROCESSES

While we’re still in business, we’re gearing up to plan and position for the coming 2026 year. Our job is to review and assess accordingly to what’s needed internally and externally. We’ll be reviewing our intentions and agendas to ensure there is alignment with what we know is working and what is not and to gain a better scope and vision on the things that go beyond revenue generation and profits. We want to affect and impact our communities as best as possible with consideration to the changing landscape and shifting priorities in messaging.

STREAMLINING FOR MORE

We’re constantly pitching and playing around with new ideas and concepts for new and newer projects—though some never really make it to light. For 2026, we’re looking to scale back a bit and refine what’s on our plates. Given the potential of things to affect the audiences and communities we’d like to serve, it shouldn’t go underestimated that we must adapt and change and therefore plan and position for effective performance as a business operation.

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BUSY WEEK: WEEK 47

November 16, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Week 47: PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT—Art, Design and Photography Products (Nov 16 - 22)

THE BUSINESS QUARTER: APPROACHING THE END OF 2025

• Focus: Review & Consolidation of Project End-results + combining past works into new compositions.

• Challenge: Merge past and/or standing works to develop products series.

• Marketing Angle: Share the layered process and encourage others to remix their own work.

Operating within the week of Thanksgiving, the true (Christmas) Holiday Season begins. With that comes the greatest potential and opportunities position for community activities and sales. Our effort will be get all product proposals under review and discussion to refine the list and begin the process developing them. Product marketing plans are to be developed prepared for implementation as well.

Our proposed product list is Artistic Digital Products, Wall Art and other publishable goods.

LOOKING FOR NEW RELATIONSHIPS!

As we continue to develop newer and newer projects, we’re also looking to collaborate and partner with those that excel within those same fields.

If you are a Visual Artist (Sketch Artist, Illustrator, Painter, Sculptor, etc.) who is EXCITED to share their work, we’d love to network and collaborate with you!

We’re looking for other creators within the local North Bethesda, MD (and surrounding Washington, DC areas) for Artists, Designers, Photographers and other Creatives to build and commune with. As LIAM IAN™ symbolizes growth and change for one man of Color, Ethnicity and Culture, we want to features those who symbolize and embody that as well.

Contact us TODAY for more information!

A SPECIAL MESSSAGE

Let their efforts be to strengthen and empower rather than invoke and stoke fear. Individually and collectively, our efforts must be to assist in not only educating, appreciating, celebrating and encouraging Black and Brown Communities, Identities and Cultures but in actively encouraging change and innovation as the needed response to all that’s being done. We must get back to an era or philosophy that served as a beacon of what could be for Black and Brown People casting aside the things that have come with dynamic commercialism and corporate socio-economic agendas. Principles, values, philosophies, and ideas that saw People of Color in colleges and raising families and contributing healthily to local and larger communities. We must reignite the light dignity, integrity and wisdom within our people because at the end of the day, it truly does take a village. —Liam Ian

LIAM IAN - Ai (@Liam.Ian.LLC_Ai)

While we’re active within our Creative Quarter, we’re still using our resources to develop additional types of Art. Ai Art is category we like to play around in generally in also developing products and assets to implement services. We’re creating prompts to develop Creative Quarter and Category assets; this week will be about Painting and Dynamic Colors. Infusing our Custom Color Palette with messages for this Black History Month and other relative activities, we’re striving to bring more and more to add to what we do and offer.

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CONTINUED ART DEVELOPMENT

November 16, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

QUARTERS AWAY AND YET…

…we’re continuing the process of developing meaningful Art representing Black and Brown People, Communities and Cultures. Adhering to the purpose of providing positive and meaning products to those audiences with the idea of “Intelligence. Ethnicity. Innovation.” in mind.

Simple works, our artworks aren’t large at all but there’s specific reason and purpose behind and about them. Being inspired by other artists, we’re continuing to chart a path of identity and meaning for those we represent and continuer to strive to serve.

Whether personal works or works to display. our works convey messages worth seeing and hearing and talking about. We’re holding nothin back in bringing to market concepts and ideas that once encouraged and inspired a generation before the rise of dynamic mass commercialization of Black and Brown Urban and general Urban Arts. This is the era that has informed us and so we the greater of potential in these areas of creative style and philosophy; “Nothing has to make sense as long as from those like us and know us, what they’re producing touches us.”

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RE-CREATION PROJECTS

November 09, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

SOMETIMES ITS JUST ABOUT CREATING ART!

Without dragging it out, we’re creating specifically based upon what inspires us; we’re doing re-creation projects. Inspired more and more by concepts and ideologies such as those conveyed and implied by “STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST” by Austin Kleon, we’re keeping it moving by not limiting ourselves. We’re creating behind what we’ve seen other creators do. Re-creation isn’t just recreation. It’s not a process of duplication. It’s the process of attempting to achieve what was already done without the same assets and resources but more using what’s at our own disposal.

The key is to implement effective and impactful projects. The point is to choose projects that are worth re-creating—meaning they have a particular and specific meaning or intended impact as identified and understand thru how they were originally done. Also they should apply to the artist, designer, photographer, business or brand as being developed as stand-alone or associated projects. Basically, we’re not—I’m not—just coming up with things to shoot, design or artistically redevelop, there’s a point to it. There’s meaning, vision and purpose.

In this month of November, we’re still striving to complete our “BLACK BRILLIANCE” project and with that, we’ve discovered newer and other concepts to convey they message and messages.

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CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION!

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LIAM IAN'S PHOTOGRAPHY @ HOME!

November 07, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Local Grand Community Shooting - North Bethesda - Montgomery County, MD

Done as practice photography for Liam Ian, this selection applies to the Personal Professional Portfolio of Liam Ian Black and LIAM IAN™.

[Shot with Canon EOS 80D : Canon 50mm Lens.]

Photography by Liam Ian Black. Assisted by Levonte Chavis. Website administration and posting by Kendra A. Philpot.

CONNECTED: LIAM IAN'S PHOTOGRAPHY @ HOME!

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tags / LIAM IAN'S PHOTOGRAPHY @ HOME!, Photography, Private Photography, Practice Photography, Portfolio Development, Photography Portfolio, Photography Portfolio Development