Tweet I recently photographed Jesse Ruiz – former student and current friend of President Obama for the Guardian Weekend Magazine. Jesse was a great sport and let us try a few locations out, all while being a super friendly guy and putting up with photographer shenanigans. I have to admit, I don’t always expect the [...]
Category Archives: business
Andrew Mason/Groupon for the Guardian Weekend Magazine
Tweet Last month I spent some time in the Groupon Chicago offices making some pictures for the Guardian’s Weekend Magazine. While I had to make a lot of pictures in a short amount of time (especially of Mr. Mason) I think the editors and designers at the Guardian did a great job of making the [...]
A Tree Grows…
TweetReturned home from some time in Brooklyn and NYC with a refreshed sense of photography. Met some wonderful people both in and outside of portfolio meetings. Thanks editors for letting me stop by your office and thanks friends for putting me up in your places, it’s much appreciated. Tomorrow I’ll start work on another story [...]
Porfolio: This is hard, what have you done?
TweetAfter some unforeseen delays in life it is finally time to really, truly look at almost all the work I’ve done and rethink my overall portfolio. This could end up being an exercise in which I end up showing the same pictures I do now, but I think some things will change. I am sitting [...]
Rotten Soul
TweetThere’s an interesting conversation with Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson over on the photography blog Conscientous… Now Anderson is probably someone who most look at as a traditional documentary photojournalist as far as putting people in boxes goes… but have a look at what he says. The death of journalism is bad for society, but we’ll [...]
Mailing List/Web Site update
TweetHello all, I’ve just added a mailing list to my website and if you are interested in updates on my work please do me a favor and sign up below. I won’t spam your inbox, I’m thinking once I get settled here I’ll probably only be sending out e-mail updates a few times a year [...]
How some people who feed your brain think…
TweetRecently I posted over on the APAD blog a little article quoting some editors over at SELF magazine speaking about the photoshop retouch work that goes on for their magazine covers, or specifically, their latest cover with Kelly Clarkson. Former classmate Andrea Morales pointed it out to me via facebook. Ironically, I subscribe to mostly [...]
The current value of photographs
Tweet$7 ….?? So agrees Sotomayor. This court ruling, in which Sotomayor had connections to the defendant (never disclosed) says effectively that a photojournalist’s original work that were lost by Corbis were worth $7 a piece. They lost a lot of images, so he walked away with a $100,000+ settlement, but this is nothing in terms [...]
New Representation/Px3 Awards
TweetWarning: Self Promo entry. It’s been an interesting few weeks, I hardly have touched my cameras and have gone into designing/portfolio/trying to figure out freelance life mode. I have a few projects in the back of my head that I’ll get moving on before the beginning of the year, but for now I just want [...]
what is photography worth?
TweetAs I consider my future as a freelancer in the Chicago market (come fall that’s where I’ll be situated) I know that the economy is bad, I know that newspapers are dying, I know that the barrier of entry for photography is lower and therefore there are more people I need to compete against …. [...]
