Martin Bandzak, John Vink of Magnum photos and others have work in a new magazine called Inside Magazine financially supported by Slovakaid and other parties. It looks like it’s free for a hard copy as well (you pay shipping) but it’s 432 pages and hardcover. It looks interesting and each issue explores a topic in [...]
I got sent over to Pella, Iowa a few weeks ago to photograph a family who had, along with other families in town, sped up their adoption process of a Haitian orphan. Essentially what happened was that the earthquake hit and the Iowa families got worried, wondering if their children slated for adoption were still [...]
Recently toured the Caterpillar plant in Peoria, Ill. for the Wall St. Journal doing a story about the bullwhip effect and was happy to see it on today’s front page. Story here and reporter Timothy Aeppel’s interesting piece worth a read. If you’re not a subscriber you can get to it by googling Wall St. [...]
Outtakes from a business shoot. Story here.
Had a few interesting assignments from TimeOut Chicago recently, seems I got put on the controversy beat. I photographed members of a comedy troupe (Chicago’s Best Church of God) staging a mock protest, basically making sure to poke fun at every imaginable denomination. The next was for a volunteers issue, photographing a Planned Parenthood volunteer [...]
In my last month or so in Athens I got one more opportunity to work with awesome designer/art director Tina Ullman for Ohio University’s Creativity and Research magazine Perspectives.
Chad Stevens, a professor at UNC and a classmate/instructor friend of my from when I was at grad school in Athens has recently put out a piece with Yale and Mediastorm that studies the effects of mountaintop removal, which is a really important issue to me. Also, fellow Chicago photog Daniel Shea has some images [...]
There’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 be better [...]
NPR’s Picture Show Blog is a good place to see good work. Just when I think I’m completely sick of looking at photography I see a project that revitalizes and excites me. Today that project was Gigi Cigali’s Absence of Water. Great project that tells a story just as well as any traditional newspaper picture [...]
Dinara, an interactive media student (disclaimer, she’s also my girlfriend) here at Ohio University has just finished a website about the former nuclear test site of Semipalatinsk polygon in her home country of Kazakhstan.
It’s a pretty fascinating site, which is the culmination of research and two trips to the region where she went to villages [...]