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 [...]
TweetI’ve been out of school for a bit now but one of my classmates when I was there was photographer Jim Korpi. His new website has a plethora of new work and it’s really, really wonderful stuff. Jim and I worked together in the summer of 2008 (well, at least congruently, with him in New [...]
TweetThe book release is coming. I can’t wait. I remember in my first college photo class, after I came back from an assignment with a bunch of pictures of a white truck in the woods, shot for no apparent reason other than I always jogged by the site and found it curious, my professor Luke [...]
TweetIt’s not common that I get distracted by the subject during a portrait shoot, I try to maintain control of the situation. Frank was good at the classical guitar though, I had asked him to play while I tested my lights and maybe snapped a few. He’s the owner of the Blue Eagle, the local [...]
TweetPart of the reason I came to grad school was to be around people who were as into photography as I was, and to be inspired by them. One such guy wasn’t around last year but came back after a hiatus to join our class. Check out Neil Ever Osborne’s portfolio … A biologist by [...]
TweetOne of the places I stopped at, a week ago today, was Main Baptist Church in Aurora, IL. I won’t be putting too many (if any) more photos from this project on my blog as it will be an essay shortly, but the spirit of people in this place blew me away, and the pastor [...]
TweetI spent the better portion of the last two weeks working on a project for my capstone class here in graduate school in which we conceive of and then proceed to shoot a long form magazine piece. This class is pretty intimidating going into, knowing the history behind some of the projects done in the [...]
TweetI remember when I lived in Champaign-Urbana I was fortunate enough to live not one block away from Espresso Royale, a local coffee shop. Now I have to walk a few blocks to get to Perk’s in Athens, Ohio. Perk’s isn’t as good as Espresso, it’s smaller and but somehow not as intimate. The other [...]
TweetI guess these were more about the signs in beautiful spaces. They’re almost not there, but they still are (were)…
TweetNow that the election and halloween are over, some semblance of calm is creeping in my little town here. This is a photo from a short essay on the ubiquity of election signs, that fits in to a larger story I was working on..
