Tweet I was recently at work on a pretty interesting project for Chicago artist and community builder Theaster Gates. He asked me to document the process of some of his friends who were in from Japan creating a new body of ceramics for him, based on traditional soul food wares. To be honest there is [...]
Tweet Christchurch, A Year after the Earthquake on Kickstarter So, I’m trying something new, and this new thing is Kickstarter. Ever since my time living in NZ got me in to photography in 2004 I’ve wanted to go back terribly, but when the earthquakes over the past 18 month began it changed things, and now [...]
Tweet Work done in conjunction with various forestry and environmental non-profit organizations over the years will be shown in Athens, Ohio on Nov. 10 to celebrate the International Year of the Forest. I’m happy to have work in the show with friends and other great photographers Josh Birnbaum, Pradeep Edussuriya, Jim Korpi and Michael DiBari.
Tweet Still catching up on a backlog of work from the summer. I was fortunate enough to have had a few shoots for the New York Times here and here. The first story was about the woman who decides the names of different colors for household paints. This is a job I never even considered [...]
Tweet Last week I spent some time up in Benton Harbor, Michigan photographing for a Monica Davey story for the New York Times. If you’ve ever watched the show Parks n’ Rec, and have seen Rob Lowe come in and try to restructure Pawnee, Indiana and their budgetary problems, Benton Harbor is a sort of [...]
TweetMartin 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 [...]
TweetI 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 [...]
TweetRecently 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. [...]
TweetOuttakes from a business shoot. Story here.
TweetHad 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 [...]
