Shamu Azizam is a painter, director, model and photographer from Athens, Georgia and currently based in Los Angeles. His work encompasses several narratives with developed character roles portrayed in a variety of landscapes. This form of role play began at an early age growing up on a farm leading him to study character design, landscape painting and storyboarding. In 2010 he took up a camera and traveled extensively by himself from Queenstown, New Zealand to Ten Sleep, Wyoming revealing his own connection to nature and art. After living transiently from coast to coast for two years he moved to Los Angeles in 2016 and began a chapter in adult entertainment. As a self subject his photography bloomed an eco eroticism driving him to the small town of Twentynine Palms, California where the desert yielded unwavering inspiration, shifting horizons and deep purple mountain hues. Mirroring the landscape with poses like men of early Colt Studios the art of bodybuilding followed into the artist’s frame of reference for character composition. Passionate by the physical and spiritual demand of sculpting the body led the artist into a new phase further fabricating his creative ventures as a figure in study.