Anderson Zaca lives in NYC and holds a degree in photography and film production. He is the author of *Block Party NYC: Soul of Summer* and *Fire Island Invasion: Day of Independence*. Zaca has exhibited his work internationally and traveled extensively for various photo documentaries, assignments, and commercial projects. His commercial clients include Nike, Budweiser, Neiman Marcus, Spotify, Renault, Rolling Stone, The Economist, and many others, and he has also collaborated with Fujifilm, Samsung, and Sony. In 2018, he received the Best Fashion Photographer award from the Visual Arts Press Awards.

After the first day of class Russell knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life and he never looked back. At this time he was working in healthcare and in nursing school. A career as a nurse would be steady work but a career as a photographer had much more longterm value and fulfillment to Russell. His mission with his camera was to shift the negative perspectives some people had of humans of African descent and marginalized communities with positive images done with cultural nuance and humanity.