(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-MXNLT3DS'); A Battery Park Session With Lyla Illing | August 2020 Battery Park, New York City  ·  August 2020 A Session with Lyla Illing Photographed by Keith Hasvision Rogers for Evarlv.com Would you still do it if no one was watching? Would you still show up if there was no money in it? Would you still create if the world was ending? I The World Had Stopped. We Didn't. New York City in the summer of 2020 was something no one had words for. The stages were dark. The venues were locked. The streets that usually hummed with the kind of creative energy that pulls artists ...

Artist: Ali Caldwell / Photographer: Keith Hasvision Rogers Let me set the scene: a rising R&B artist named Zara books me to shoot her headline set at a Brooklyn venue. She's building her brand, dropping her debut EP in two months, and needs polished content — performance stills, backstage reels, promo clips for Instagram. We agree on a rate, I show up, I shoot three hours of fire. She gets the files. Then a few weeks later, she prints a giant tour poster using one of my shots and licenses a video clip to a streaming platform — without asking me. ...