 He assisted Anthony Barboza and eventually opened Northlight Studio with Kamoigne members C. Daniel Dawson, Ray Francis, Lou Draper, and Herman Howard.An award-winning fine-art photographer, Sivad's photography has exhibited nationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Smithsonian Institution.Sivad broke into stand-up comedy when he signed up for a writing course and they assigned him to a comedy course by mistake.