Janette Beckman

[2] While she produces a lot of work on location (such as the cover of The Police album Zenyatta Mondatta, taken in the middle of a forest in the Netherlands), she is also a studio portrait photographer.

Her work has appeared on records for the major labels, and in magazines including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Glamour, Italian Vogue, The Times, Newsweek, Jalouse,[3] Mojo and others.

[10] She was passed on to smaller rap and hip-hop labels, where she photographed acts such as Salt-N-Pepa, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, and the Beastie Boys in their early days.

MTV Raps two-part documentary "We Were All Watching / Part 2, Fashion in the Golden Age of Hip Hop," alongside Bill Adler, Dante Ross, Questlove, and others.

[26] 2014 brought a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, in conjunction with an exhibition at Carver Savings and Loan Association titled Rebel Culture: Legends of Hip Hop and the Go Hard Boyz (Harlem Bikers).

[37] Here We Are is Burberry's exhibition of British social and documentary photography, featuring Beckman, Bill Brandt, Shirley Baker, Jane Bown, Martin Parr, and others, which opened in Clerkenwell in September 2017.

[44] Photographs were in various exhibitions marking the 50th anniversary, including "Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious" at Fotografiska New York,[45] and Fotografiska Stockholm;[46] and "Get Rich or Die Tryin’" at the international photography festival 'Cortona On The Move' in the Tuscan town of Cortona[47] Her work was featured in editorial publications including Vanity Fair [48] and "Fresh Fly Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style" Rizzoli Electa, 2023.

[49] She had a solo exhibition at South Street Seaport in New York where her photographs were displayed outdoors,[50] and was interviewed there for NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for a segment called "That's So Dope, Hip Hop Beyond Music".