A good friend of mine, Neil Osborne (currently in Toronto) is doing some really cool things within his niche lately, like landing an adjunct teaching position at Queen’s University teaching conservation photography and visual communication within their school of environmental studies. Some lucky students there…
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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 [...]
I was on assignment this morning for Aurora Photos/The Ocean Conservancy photographing some volunteers clean up the shores of the often closed because of too much E. Coli North Ave. Beach in Chicago. I was pretty amazed at the number of trash bags filled up from seemingly miniscule bits and pieces of trash along the [...]
I’m excited that the good folks over at Fovea Exhibitions, a non-profit proponent of photojournalism in Beacon, NY has decided that my work from last summer about sustainable forestry and organic farming would fit into their “Man vs. Land” projection exhibition showing on the night of Saturday, June 13. Not only is this one of [...]
Many of the photographs I make are born of frustration. Case in point above. On a recent cold and snowy night the local university, Benedictine University in Lisle had power blaring through their stadium lights illuminating …. I’m not sure what. There was no one there, nothing to light up. I’ll admit that there could [...]
It’s been awhile since I made a picture I was happy about, but on Thursday this lucky couple put up with me making a portrait of them, and I’m happy with how it came out. … Um … they’re dairy farmers if you couldn’t tell, and really great, smart folks to boot. On another note, [...]
I’ve just started to get to know a great and interesting lady, the owner of a local organic dairy farm (Snowville Creamery) that is one of the most successful businesses in the area, especially in an industry that is notoriously difficult to profit from. A love for land and animal is evident in many aspects [...]
My first actual gallery show was last night in Nelsonville, OH at the Stuart Opera House. A number of folks both strange and familiar came by to look at images by Jim Korpi, Mike DiBari and myself….photos from the forests, farms and gardens of the eastern half of the U.S. for the most part, centering [...]