Alfredo Flores (born June 16, 1989) is an American director, documentarian and photographer known for directing music videos and documentaries. He frequently collaborates with artists such as

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Karol G Carolina Giraldo Navarro (born February 14, 1991), known professionally as Karol G, is a Colombian singer. Considered as one of the most influential reggaeton and Urban contemporary music, urban pop artists, she has received awards including a ...

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, JoJo,

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and

Selena Gomez Selena Marie Gomez ( ; born July 22, 1992) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, producer, and businesswoman. Gomez began her career as a child actress, appearing on the children's television series ''Barney & Friends'' (2002–2004), a ...

. Flores made his documentary debut filming the 2011 concert film '' Justin Bieber: Never Say Never''. He subsequently worked on ''Never Say Never'''s 2013 sequel ''

Justin Bieber's Believe ''Justin Bieber's Believe'' is a 2013 American concert film and the sequel to '' Justin Bieber: Never Say Never'' (2011), both centering on Canadian singer Justin Bieber. It was distributed through Open Road Films in the United States and Cana ...

''. Flores created the 2018

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'' Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman Diaries.'' His notable photography work includes the album cover for

2019 Thank U, Next as well as her single artworks for

Bang Bang (Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj song) "Bang Bang" is a song by English singer-songwriter Jessie J, American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande, and Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj. It was released by Lava and Republic Records on 28 July 2014 as the lead single from Jessie J's third stu ...

, Bed (Nicki Minaj song), Dance to This and

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. He photographed

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2021 album Trying Not to Think About It as well as 2021 single

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. His most notable music videos include "

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" and " Love Me" (Justin Bieber), " Santa Tell Me" (Ariana Grande), "

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" (Ariana Grande &

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), " Stuck with U" (Justin Bieber & Ariana Grande),

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"Call my Name" Jacob Latimore's "Selfish" and "Games" (

Cassie Steele Cassandra Rae Steele (born December 2, 1989) is a Canadian actress and singer known for portraying Manny Santos on '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' and Abby Vargas on '' The L.A. Complex''. In 2014, she played Sarah in the MTV horror televisi ...

Early life

Alfredo Flores grew up in

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. His mother came from

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. He attended New York Film School in 2007 before attending Santa Monica Film School. While in school, he interned with music video director Eric White. He subsequently worked as a production assistant on the music video for

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's " With You". He also filmed behind-the-scenes footage of the production of

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's "

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Career

After moving from

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, Flores began an internship at

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. He met

on the set of ''School Gyrls'' (2009) while shooting behind-the-scenes for director

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, and agreed to shoot a behind-the-scenes video for Bieber. Flores subsequently collaborated with Bieber on various projects and later joined Bieber as tour videographer on his 2010 My World Tour. He directed the music videos for Bieber's 2010 singles " Love Me" and "

". In 2011, Flores was tour photographer on

's We Own the Night Tour, and created a documentary series of the same name about the tour. He directed the music videos for the singles "Natural" and "All These Boys" by Jasmine V. In the same year, Flores was a videographer on

Loud Tour The Loud Tour was the fourth overall and third world concert tour by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna. Performing in over twenty countries in the Americas and Europe, the tour was launched in support of Rihanna's fifth studio album '' Loud'' ...

. In 2012, he joined Bieber's Believe Tour, and filmed the concert documentary ''

.'' Later that year, Flores and

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shared the award for "Best Director" at the 4th Shorty Awards. He was nominated again for "Best Director" at the 6th Shorty Awards in 2014, and won at the 7th Shorty Awards in 2015. Flores photographed the cover art for

's 2015 single "

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" while on her Honeymoon Tour as photographer and videographer. During these time he also developed the web series “Honeymoon Tour Diaries”. In 2017, Flores was Ariana Grande's tour photographer on the

Dangerous Woman Tour The Dangerous Woman Tour was the third concert tour and the second arena tour by American singer Ariana Grande, in support of her third studio album, '' Dangerous Woman'' (2016). It traveled across North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and ...

. In an interview with ''

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'', he discussed the events of the

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and Grande's decision to return for the One Love Manchester concert. He directed a four-part

titled '' Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman Diaries'', which was released on November 28, 2018. In 2018, he photographed the cover art for

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's single " Dance to This",

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's "

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", and Ariana Grande's " The Light Is Coming". The following year he photographed the cover art for Ariana Grande's 2019 album '' Thank U, Next''. Flores shot and directed Ariana Grande's rendition of " I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" as part of The Disney Family Singalong, which aired April 16, 2020. He also directed the music video for Stuck with U, a charity single by Bieber and Grande. The video won "Best Music Video From Home" at the

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. He was nominated for "Favorite Tour Photographer" in the 2020 iHeartRadio Music Awards for his work on the Sweetener Tour. In 2021, he photographed

for her official '' The Voice'' portrait. He photographed the cover art singles for

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and Sejodioto for

as well as her promo images for her Bichota Tour. He photographed the album cover for

2021 EP Trying Not to Think About It. He directed the music video for Inaya's Fallen and the music video for the first single About You from R&B newcomer

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debut project. In 2022, he was nominated and won the

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for "Best Live Streaming" for his Direction in the livestream telecast Pride Eve, hosted by

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and was the photographer for the 2022 Casa de

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pop up at the Latin Grammys In 2023, he embarked on tour with

for her Emails I Can't Send Tour as well as her opening slot of

Taylor Swift Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and Cultural impact of Taylor Swift, cultural impact, Swift is one of the Best selling artists, w ...

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which garnered him a nomination at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards for favorite tour photographer. A nomination he received again and won the following year at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards for his work on her Short n' Sweet Tour

Awards

Videography

Filmography

References

External links

Alfredo Flores on IMVDB
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