Tweet As far as online publications go – Guernica is one of my favorites. This month they decided to publish an excerpt of my Bryan House project and I’m happy that the story will get out there even more. It’s been a minute since I last photographed the organization but they are doing well and [...]
Tweet I’m back home in Chicago trying to shake off jet lag, at this point with measured success. If you’re an editor who needs some good ol’ Midwestern picutres and you happen to see this please make note that I am around again, and if you’re a friend (or editor, hey why not!) please make [...]
Tweet In a few days I’ll be back home. It’s going to be tough. Last time I was in New Zealand I was here for nearly six months, and this time just 10 weeks. Still, this visit has been much more immersive. Instead of surfing and going to university I’ve been meeting with lifelong residents [...]
Tweet In January I headed to R.S. Owens in Chicago (where they manufacture the Oscar trophies) for the Financial Times Magazine. The piece can be seen online here and is an interesting expose looking what’s left of U.S. manufacturing using R.S. Owens as one example. I hope that the gracious and diligent people I met [...]
Tweet In January I was able to work again with The Guardian’s Weekend Magazine. Every time I shoot for them I love the design work they do. This time afforded me the opportunity to meet the lovely Margaret Overton, a newly minted author on top of being an anesthesiologist. She’s been through hell but had [...]
TweetI’ve been here over a month now and have been working pretty steadily almost since I touched the ground here. I could write a whole lot about the experience at this point but it’s still a bit too fresh. People have been very gracious in sharing their stories with me, unexpectedly so. It’s only making [...]
Tweet January is usually one of those months where if you’re not careful the weight of winter can start to get to you, but that hasn’t been the case this year. After having springlike conditions unusually late into the year we’ve just recently been getting the snow I was hoping for, and even though I [...]
Tweet If you asked me what my priorities were, I might struggle to figure out if running or photography would take precedence. Even though only one of these activities feeds me, they both constantly occupy my mind. For the past 18 months or so I’ve been taking pictures with my cell phone while I’m out [...]
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 [...]
Tweet The past two summers I’ve been teaching a high school photography course through a program called Upward Bound. We get the luxury of meeting during the hottest weeks of the year and my class is dependent on getting outside to make photographs of the city of Chicago. Both years we made it to Millenium [...]
