In 2016, photographer Cade Martin reached out to Antonio Alcala, an art director with the United States Postal Service, to tell him how much he admired the work he’d done on the Star Trek Forever stamps.
Five years later, the two are now collaborators on a very different commemorative stamp. Released on July 1, the USPS’s “Hip-Hop” stamps are the latest Forever release, commemorating today’s most popular genre through a quartet of digitally-tinted images.
The stamps utilize Martin’s photography to depict the four elements of hip-hop — MCing, B-boying, DJing and graffiti art — a concept typically attributed to pioneer Afrika Bambaataa.
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