Photographer Shaniqwa Jarvis is a winner. As her Instagram handle, @sheekswinsalways, attests, she sets out to do her best, always, whether she’s capturing the likeness of one of her many illustrious subjects—Quinta Brunson, Gabrielle Union, and Simone Biles have all sat for her—or settling into her first Los Angeles home.
When she and her partner Raj Debah, an artist, writer, and film director, started looking for a house in Los Angeles, their primary concern was vibes, good energy being, after all, the surefire sister to success. When Jarvis walked into her 1,800-square-foot, three-bedroom Mount Washington home for the first time, the vibes were almost uncanny. “The moment I stepped over the threshold I knew this was my house,” Jarvis says. “When you’re Black and buying a home, there are moments…
