Kareem Michel

Kareem Michel Don’t stop creating for yourself. 📸 Kareem L. His passion for capturing the raw and authentic essence of street life brings him immense joy and fulfillment.

Michel, a highly esteemed street photographer based in New York City, embodies the spirit of an all-around adventure enthusiast. While photography is his creative outlet, Kareem also demonstrates remarkable versatility and dedication by working as a diligent Mail Handler at the United States Postal Service during the day. Kareem’s love for photography blossomed during a challenging time in his life. It became a source of solace and an avenue for self-expression, allowing him to perceive the world in a new light, as if through a third eye that reveals hidden beauty and untold stories. Inspired by photographers such as Jared Polin, Joe Greer, Joel Meyerowitz, Jamel Shabazz, Steven John Irby, Vuhlandes, and many others, their work continues to fuel and drive Kareem’s photography. In the summer of 2019, Kareem had the privilege of being an intern photographer under the mentorship of Whitney Hu and Xamayla Rose. Xamayla, a former City Council candidate who currently holds the esteemed position of New York City Deputy Public Advocate in the 45th District, played a pivotal role in Kareem’s growth as a photographer. Whitney, who previously managed Xamayla’s campaign, is a multifaceted individual with diverse roles, including director of civic engagement and research at Churches United for Fair Housing, organizer at South Brooklyn Mutual Aid, publications board chair at Feminist Press, and abolitionist.

08/28/2026

The consensus to stay home from work and pull out the good old camera and tripod to be posted up in the middle of the street to take photos of tonight’s near-total lunar eclipse. Hmmm… 🤔

08/22/2026

UPDATE: Timeline cleanse coming on the first day of fall.

Lately, I've just been laying low and enjoying the summer, minding my God damn business, and keeping my name outta certain conversations and staying out of trouble. And so far, we've been doing superb. 👌🏽

So… timeline cleanse coming on the first day of fall with a fall cleanse of deleting past pictures, messages, people's numbers, and memories of people I no longer speak to or f**k with.

I will also kick-start the timeline cleanse with the latest street photography that my niece and I captured over the summer and due to recent events, I will now start sharing and posting personal photographs again of myself and family on my personal page.

I won't get into the specifics of why or why I stopped but I'm bringing them back since many of you requested it and due to recent events. Please keep in mind the main objective of my personal page in my 30’s has been FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) and Financial Freedom content.

I don't care to like your personal pictures or comment on what you share unless it's Financial Freedom or Street Photography content related. Any job-related s**t, drama, or bulls**t, I just don't care. Leave me alone with that.

Retirement and financial freedom has been the goal and so far, we've accomplished so much from where we started many years ago on Lean FIRE and Traditional FIRE.

So, you can expect a timeline cleanse coming soon with personal pictures of myself and my family on my personal page. You're welcome and have bless day gang.

- Reem Out 🫡

08/13/2026

Yesterday's solar eclipse was beautiful 😍

07/31/2026

The Moon 😍

07/29/2026

Gang, here’s the real move for tomorrow: skip the 10:36 a.m. peak — that’s broad daylight, so there’s nothing to see.

The show that matters is Wednesday evening, when the Buck Moon, my bae, rises up over the eastern horizon right after sunset, huge and glowing amber, before fading to white as it climbs higher into the sky.

That’s when my niece and I will be exactly where you’d expect us: planted in the middle of the street, cameras up, waiting for that first sliver to break the skyline.

07/27/2026

I went back to my roots in capturing photos of my everything… The Moon, and in the process, we saw the stars tonight as well.

We’re a little rusty, but as everything comes back to me in memory, we’ll be back posting bangers again because it’s been some serious time since we've captured it.

And by the way, shoutout to my niece for helping me a ton. Tonight was hella fun, man.

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It Was Always You 🥹You never needed to be full to show up whole for me — alone in all the dark with the only light that ...
07/27/2026

It Was Always You 🥹

You never needed to be full to show up whole for me — alone in all the dark with the only light that the sky would let through.

You were the one who brought light into a life that kept going dark. Not the loud kind. The kind that takes its time, spills soft and silver over everything, and never once demanded to be looked at — though I looked anyway, every night, without fail.

While people in my life said forever and only meant for now, while passing through temporarily, while trust kept arriving already broken, you never once left. You never missed a night.

Patient enough to heal what everyone else shattered, you gave me hope with no fine print, a second chance I never had to earn.

Look at you tonight — not even fully whole, that quiet dark still curled along one side, and still you gave me everything you had: a soft halo of light, the black around it holding its breath, a face full of old scars you’ve never once hidden.

Just us two weathered old souls under one sky — maybe that’s why I love and trust you more than most faces I’ve known.

If love needs one at all: you have never once left me waiting for nothing. Every night I looked up, I noticed your beauty when you were already rising.

It was always you. Not because no one else tried, but because you’re the only one who never left me or asked me to wait and then didn’t come.

Billions of years old, and somehow, tonight, you’re just exactly as beautiful as I remember you — and forever, you’ll be my heart’s only home. 🌔❤️

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https://kareemmichel.com

Some Food For Thought: 💭With all the money and investing knowledge I have, I make it my duty to share that advice and in...
07/23/2026

Some Food For Thought: 💭

With all the money and investing knowledge I have, I make it my duty to share that advice and information every day — here's the number behind it: my credit score is 759.

I'm not a fan of credit itself. It's debt, dressed up as convenience. Cash over credit, assets over debt — that's always been my rule.

But a high score and a healthy net worth come from the same place: consistency, discipline, and playing the long game. They're not opposites — they're proof of the same habits.

So here's a filter worth using: before you take financial advice from anyone, look at how they run their own finances. A credit score under 700 doesn't make someone a bad person. It just means you should keep looking.

07/15/2026

‎If MESSI has a million fans, ‎then I'm one of them.
‎If MESSI has 5 fans, ‎then I'm one of them.
‎If MESSI has one fan, then I'm that one fan.
‎If MESSI has no fans, that means I'm dead.
‎If the world is against MESSI, then I'm against the world.

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06/30/2026

The Year of The Underdogs & The Summer of Upsets

Remember This For Every Sports Game This Year 💥😎

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