himself rapidly tiring of the fashion world and began to focus on fine art portraiture, mostly of his friends; skaters, musicians, artists, drug dealers and gang members. The Perfect Storm "The Perfect Storm". This image came about when Williams was hanging out with Jay Adams in Oahu on the North Shore in 2010. What's special about this image is at this moment Jay didn't know he was being photographed. A true candid moment. Moments before the image was taken Jay was giving advice on life and relationships to a young girl sitting on the ground next to him. The phone rang and she left to answer it. Williams was sitting across from Jay and saw a look come over his face. It was like he was going over everything in his head what he had just told the young girl. The camera was sitting in Williams's lap, and he was hoping the camera was in focus and begin to shoot 3 frames from his lap. Williams reached out to RISK to paint on the image. RISK knew Jay well and what he stood for. "There was really no other person I thought of to paint on the image. There is only one, RISK." —Pep Williams. Behind Bars (Autry Museum Exhibit) Behind Bars is a photographic series photographed by Williams on display in a permanent exhibit at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. The photographs are shot inside the Prisons in California. He was one of a few photographers to have ever been allowed inside to shoot the inmates freely. And as a former pro skateboarder, he was allowed to bring skateboards inside the grounds and actually let the inmates skate. This had never been done before. The images from the Behind Bars exhibit have been exhibited and lectured about at Leica Los Angeles, the University of California, Irvine, Alberta Rose Theater in Oregon and Adidas headquarters in Germany. Museum exhibits 2010: California African American Museum (CAAM) - "How We Roll" 2017: Museum of Latin American Art (MOLLA) 2020: Autry Museum of the American West (Permanent Exhibit) Group exhibitions 2011: Curbs and Stoops - Brooklyn 2017: Photoville - Brooklyn 2018: Good Art HLYWD - Los Angeles (with Shepard Fairey) Music videos 2013: Suicidal Tendencies - "Cyco Style" (director) 2017: Suicidal Tendencies - "Live for Life" (director) References External links 20th-century American photographers Living people American portrait photographers