I photographed Tupac in 1993, at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, in L.A.It was for a magazine, I forget which now, tied to the John Singleton movie, Poetic Justice, that he was in with Janet Jackson.

The role was just one of many Tupac played in his short but prolific acting career, which included the films Juice (1991), Poetic Justice (1993), Bullet (1996), Gridlock’d (1997) and Gang ...