Alicia Keys, photographed before the release of her debut studio album on East 21st Street with Gramercy Park in the background in New York by James Patrick Cooper in early 2001.

Cooper used the Mamiya M645 camera with Fujifilm NPS 160 film to photograph the young star. This was the first time he met Alicia, describing the shoot to social media: “The first time I met Alicia Keys and had her hang out the studio window over E21st. This was before her first album on J Records ‘Songs in A minor.’”