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technical environments, from intimate café stages to 20,000+ capacity arenas and large-scale festival productions. I have toured internationally and worked with both emerging and established artists, contributing to projects that span low-budget independent productions through high-budget commercial campaigns.
My creative work includes music videos, tour and festival production, advertisements, billboards, merchandise, album and cover art, promotional visuals, production assistance, ad campaigns, product photography, architecture, and editorial and magazine features, along with additional creative work beyond those listed here. I have operated in studio settings as well as on-location environments, often under dynamic and uncontrolled lighting and logistical constraints.
While Astrophotography and live performance photography has been a core focus, my experience extends well beyond music. I have documented a wide range of subject matter and event types, including astrophotography, photojournalism, architecture, sports, and corporate and academic environments. This breadth has required adaptability across capture techniques, lighting conditions, equipment systems, and delivery requirements.
This creative body of work was developed in parallel with my academics in Electrical and Computer Engineering, including projects completed during high school and throughout my undergraduate and graduate studies. Engineering and creative practice have evolved together in my work, informing both my technical approach to imaging and my ability to execute reliably in real-world conditions.
My photography and visual work has been featured in numerous digital and print publications, as well as in large-scale commercial and promotional contexts. In addition to formal publications, my work has been widely distributed through official artist and organization social media channels. Due to the scale, duration, and organic nature of this distribution, not all placements, reposts, or awards have been fully cataloged, and some historical links are no longer publicly accessible due to content archiving practices.
Note: This site is a living document. Some links and visuals are still being tracked down or uploaded. This creative resume exists to complement, not replace, my technical engineering resume.
Ongoing Practices
Night Photography Expedition Leader & Organizer
Led and organized night photography field expeditions/meetups focused on astrophotography and extreme low-light imaging across Anza Borrego Desert, Joshua Tree National Park, and other locations in San Diego, CA.
Circuit Bending & Experimental Imaging
Modified hardware at the sensor and signal-chain level to produce glitch-like image artifacts in both analog and digital camera systems.
Canon USA
Deliverable: Physical gallery publication
Selected work published and displayed as part of a Canon-curated physical gallery experience.
Adobe
Deliverable: Award-winning photograph
Winner: Best Photo Award for the Creative Jam competition
Competed under a same-day theme and field capture constraint.
Youngest competitor and winner in event history (age 16)
Video:
https://youtu.be/T1iK_E2ARMg?si=V4Ah8lDZOTrBYAfH
Disney
Deliverables:
Production assistance
Editorial photography
Printed newsletter production
2017:
Selected as 1 of 100 students nationwide from 10,000+ applicants.
Editorial staff & photographer for printed annual newsletter.
Supported RFID wristband software development (engineering contribution).
2018 & 2019:
Returned as Dreamers Academy Champion.
Worked alongside Disney media team, including Chief Photographer David Roark.
Harvard University
Deliverables:
Media campaigns and documentation for:
Harvard University Dining Services
Harvard Secondary School Program
The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Extension Alumni Association
Work published across official university social channels, alumni communications, and internal marketing.
Shot both photography and video while enrolled as a secondary school student (2016, 2017, & 2018).
Northeastern University
Deliverables:
Editorial photography across sports, campus events, and features
Photo Editor (2018-2021).
Full archive of published work:
https://huntnewsnu.com/staff_name/muhammad-elarbi/
Princeton University
Deliverables:
Editorial photography and written features
https://psjp.princeton.edu/news/2017-princeton-summer-journal
San Diego Union-Tribune
Deliverables:
Assistant shooting
Backup coverage
On-location support
Job shadowed veteran photographer John Gibbins (2015-2018).
Participated in assignments across news, events, and field reporting.
Sun Diego Boardshops
Deliverables:
Advertisement photography (billboard and retail usage)
Outside The Lens
Deliverable: Gallery publication “Latitude”
Work selected and exhibited through Outside The Lens programming.
San Diego Mayor’s Office & Museum of Man
Deliverable: Exhibition display
Photography work displayed as part of public-facing exhibitions and programming.
$uicideboy$
Album: Stop Staring at the Shadows
Deliverables:
Album cover photography
Merchandise artwork
Billboard assets (Los Angeles and New Orleans)
Press and promotional campaign imagery
Usage highlights:
Album artwork used across physical, digital, and large-format advertising.
Press usage including Inked Magazine: The Moto Issue (July 2020) and Inked Magazine (May 2020 online feature).
Physical publication included a full 2-page spread.
Digital feature: https://inkedmag.com/original-news/suicideboys
Billboard placements and wide-scale promotional rollout.
Additional coverage across numerous blogs and online publications.
Context:
Photography used directly on merchandise associated with the album release contributed to a merchandise drop that generated over $1M in revenue.
$uicideboy$ has 11.3M+ monthly Spotify listeners as of January 2026.
One track from this album has 867M+ streams on Spotify alone, with my artwork directly associated.
Grey Day Tour ranked #4 highest-grossing rap tour worldwide in 2025 ($43.5M).
Source: Billboard, 2025
Album: A Man Rose From The Dead (SCRIM)
Deliverables:
Complete visual set for album release, including photography, typography, and supporting visuals
Full creative execution across album identity
Credits:
Additional $uicideboy$ Work (Non-Album-Specific)
Tour coverage (Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Boston, Rhode Island)
Festival coverage (Rolling Loud Los Angeles)
Official Spotify playlist imagery (“Tear Drop”)
Social media assets and artist-shared content
The Hellp
Deliverables:
Spotify banner imagery (active as of February 2026)
Spotify “Live Events” promotional visuals
Ongoing collaboration since 2023 across Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and additional locations.
PicturePlane
Deliverables:
Billboard photography
Album promotional assets
Physical media (CD booklet interior panel)
Work used to promote his Album S*x Distortion (released Oct 31, 2025).
Billboard placements across Los Angeles.
Photography used across physical CDs, online publications, and artist social media.
At time of writing, my image is used as both Pictureplane’s Instagram profile photo and Spotify banner/profile image.
88rising
Deliverables:
Festival photo & video coverage
Production assistance
Hired as a Production Assistant for the 2019 Head In The Clouds Festival (Los Angeles).
Supported live festival production, media capture, and recap asset creation.
thetamancer - Smorkin’ Labbit
Deliverable: Music video
Led all photography and videography from concept through final capture.
Shot using custom circuit-bent glitch cameras, introducing real-time analog video distortion as a creative and technical element.
Performed live, in-camera visual mixing while shooting, managing framing, movement, exposure, and glitch modulation simultaneously.
Balcon - Copenhagen, Denmark
Deliverables:
Daily Program documentation (photo + video)
Promotional assets
Press imagery for local Danish outlets
Headshots for all dancers and crew
Sole photographer and videographer for a 30+ dancer European program.
Operated in non-English-speaking environments, collaborating with Danish-speaking teams.
Worked onsite at Denmark’s national opera house, The Royal Danish Opera (Operaen), and The Royal Danish Playhouse (Skuespilhuset).
Managed full capture-to-delivery pipeline, including structured media archiving.
Production link:
https://www.balcon.nu/dansedroemme-2023-krop-det-kongelige-teater/
GreenSight (UAV Robotics Co-op)
Deliverables:
Media for U.S. Navy and DoD SBIR contracts
Executive presentations
Product photography
Field testing documentation
Led visual documentation alongside engineering responsibilities.
Produced photography and aerial footage supporting robotics and UAV field testing.
Cuco
Project: Para Mi - Music Video
Deliverables:
Production assistance
Behind-the-scenes photography and documentation
Tour and live performance coverage (Los Angeles, Pamona, San Diego, Boston, New York, Mexico City)
Festival coverage (Coachella)
Social media and promotional assets
Xavier Wulf
Project: Galactic Rangers - Music Video
Deliverables:
Production assistance
Behind-the-scenes photography and documentation
Rawska
Deliverables:
Album cover photography (Down to Earth)
Album cover photography (Mercy)
Album cover photography (Eighteen)
Lil Raven
Deliverables:
photography for Tornado album release Merchandise
Live performance documentation
Music videos
Lil Raven & Rawska
Deliverables: Photography for tour poster (2020)
Boobie Lootaveli
Deliverables: Photography for EU tour poster (2020)
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal
Deliverables: Photography used for limited-run T-shirt merchandise drop
Mr. Clank Clank
Project: Tyez011518 - Album
Deliverables: Album cover photography
Additional Publications & Features
NuSCI (multiple print and digital issues)
Tastemakers Magazine
PiXel (Northeastern University Photography Club)
Spectrum Literary Arts
Sleepless Magazine
Amateur Astrophotography Magazine, Issue 36
Full-page spread (pp. 76-77)
Exclusive image feature (pp. 76-81)