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New Years are for experimenting

Tweet I’m not the type to make a list of all my best 2011 pictures, or moments, or whatever. Maybe I’ll care about that stuff a bit more when I’m near my death bed but I’d rather spend more time focusing on what’s ahead, which to me should always include experimentation. If you’re a photographer [...]

Romka Magazine (Issue #6)

Tweet  One of my favorite images from the past year will be in the upcoming issue of Romka Magazine – a photo magazine out of Germany that celebrates personal work. The magazine is a collection of work by students, hobbyists, amateurs and a few professionals as well, but your job doesn’t matter to the publisher [...]

Untitled Street #33/Naperville Last Fling

Tweet I usually stick to downtown Chicago when I’m photographing on the streets, as I have a long term goal for that work (whether it looks like a project or not, it is). It’s a whole different thing photographing in Naperville…the bubble of a suburb that I’m from and live in. There’s an annual Labor [...]

Uptown Residents for TimeOut Chicago

Tweet A few weeks ago I made a tour through the different homes of Uptown, Chicago’s most diverse neighborhood, for TimeOut’s Uptown Story special issue. Because the opportunity for good Ethiopian doesn’t arise that often I made sure to stop at Demera after a day of shooting.

Color Study: Lower Garden District

Tweet Though I wasn’t in New Orleans to shoot for the most part, I still went out to look for still images on the street.

Unfinished spaces

Tweet It seems that most places I look people close to me are still trying to figure out where they are, why they are, how they are, etc. Finding a finished space probably isn’t the best thing at this time anyways.

color study: condiments

Tweet ketchup and mustard on one of my bike routes

The Journey Not the Destination/Lake Michigan Surfing

TweetExploring the shoreline of Lake Michigan is a bizarre practice. So much of it is industrialized, protected or snagged up by private property owners, you can’t really “discover” anything new. But if you’re not concerned with being the very first, and you are looking for something that not many people have looked for, discoveries abound. [...]

In Defense of Winter

Tweet I’m a person who is significantly affected by the weather and the environment. For whatever reason, certain types of light affect me in different and very real ways. A still day will have my blood flowing in at a completely different pace than a day when the wind is howling. One day is not [...]

self-indulgent summer recap (so far)

Tweet For the most part I like keeping words to a minimum here, but this summer has been so busy and drastically different (in great ways) than the past few months that I just feel the need to recap. From pretty much mid-June through, well last weekend I scarcely had a day off. I was [...]