We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Tell Beall. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Tell below.

Tell, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on recently has been this Visual Album of cinematic sequences called An Extroverted Introvert. That’s how I’d describe myself as a person, one who loves his own space but does love his people. In the sequences I’ve showed some deep meanings within my life which is something I do within most of my projects, I seek relatability and impact strongly. I had pieces that evoked the relationships I desire within a woman, a break-up that really changed my life and maneuvered me for better, one speaking on the struggles of being a broke college student in a horrible apartment complex, and one about my communal side and embracing my blackness with some beautiful people. I’m working on some bigger projects now that I’m excited about, one specifically centered around self-love and being presented from a notable and dope woman figure who inspires me for sure.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Honestly, I’m just having fun. I create what I enjoy and I feel would impact others in my aesthetic. The biggest key to everything is understanding you are always gonna need help, Ask questions, talk to others, don’t be embarrassed and build around your like-mindedness. Recently within my role as a creative I’m transitioning to a role of Director of Photography, which is something I ignored a couple years ago cause I believed I only wanted to shoot photos for the rest of my life. But when you meet so many dope innovative people, you gain interest and people are willing to help.

Right now, I offer packages from your regular photoshoot to weddings, commercials, and even bigger production sets within documentaries and film itself. I’m shooting my first short film this month with this dope upcoming director and excited to see what we build. I bring love to everything I do, and I express with whomever I work with whether it’s a client or partners. My passion is impact, if I can make your vision come true, or if you trust my vision to bring your idea out, let’s do it and I’m going to give it everything.

I’m mostly proud of my growth and impact on others. Receiving meaningful messages from clients, friends, family, and my family on Instagram who supports me, seeing messages with them expressing how I’ve inspired them or shown them different elements of creativity and even on their personal life makes me even bigger and better. It’s not easy, cause if it was everyone would do it, but I love it and want people to know that you can achieve what you desire at all means, you HAVE to be in it fully. And be yourself in it. One of the biggest things when creating with people and others is I express them to evoke your creative expression as much as they can, this is your piece as much as mines, let people see YOU as well.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I want to build a safe haven for creatives to come learn some amazing creative skills in workshops, gain some knowledge amongst the like-minded creative community surrounding mental health and even more on a communal aspect of network, and just to create anything they aspire.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

Be open minded. Everyone’s outlet of creativity can be different, and in my opinion it is. As a creative, speaking to individuals who don’t have a hobby/career in creativity it usually can be a little confusing or hard to understand but little do they know, creativity surrounds us all and our everyday life in what we do. To understand we must be able to have the will to learn and process that so we can get a jist of what someone is trying to evoke. And you never know, you have many who desire to strive for that creative profession but don’t have that outlet or motivation in them for that. That’s where us a creatives come in. Self-expression in our work, in our ideas, one of main reasons I seek relatability. It’s a different world of politics in the creative world but it could be so much more simple but creativity won’t die.

Contact Info:

• Website: martellbeall.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetellbeall/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4zbNaxGp7bsj-ew95KBJDg

Image Credits
Behind The Scenes of Me shot by Justin Laryea