Festive photos / Literary launch

Tony Hawk’s office parties, dazzlingly photographed by Tod Seelie; Efe Paul Azino and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún discuss a NYC festival debut


Today: Tod Seelie, photographer and author of BRIGHT NIGHTS: Photographs of Another New York; and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Nigerian writer, linguist, co-editor of Best Literary Translations, founder of Olongo Africa, and writer and producer of the documentary, Ebrohimie Road.


Issue No. 391

Tony Hawk’s Holiday Office Parties Go to Extremes
Tod Seelie

A New Black and African Literature Festival in New York
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún


Tony Hawk’s Holiday Office Parties Go to Extremes

by Tod Seelie

Normally, photographers are not allowed to share private events that we photograph for celebrity clients—weddings, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, engagement parties, etc. But in the case of Tony Hawk’s holiday office parties, that veil has been lifted. Thanks to some recent publicity on these events, I’m able to share what goes on when Hawk and his office staff decide to celebrate the end of the calendar year.

"Yeah, we just start driving out to the desert and we are driving. I mean, signs are like NO MOTORIZED VEHICLES PAST THIS POINT. Government property." – Tony Hawk, on the Hawk vs Wolf podcast

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