Last week I went down to Joliet Jr. College to witness some classes where IBEW (electrical workers union) members are getting training for green jobs…though most of the jobs have yet to materialize in the region. The article by Sudeep Reddy spells out the issue. Visually, a challenging assignment but that’s just fine with me. [...]
Last month I got a proposal for an interesting story from TimeOut. In October, Rachel Gilliam, a bartender at Bowman’s in Lincoln Square was the victim of a hit and run. The story, which was featured in their bars issue, focused on the space of Bowman’s and the community whose lives she touched. This was [...]
I was recently welcomed into Sonja Ortman’s home for a shoot where the story focused on between being a mom caring for a normal, energetic kid and having to take care of yourself when you are living with HIV. Due to advancements in HIV drugs she was able to successfully birth an uninfected son in [...]
At the end of Jan. I hiked up to small town Wisconsin to catch up with Mary Kaczor, a jet setting former F-1 racer turned jeweler/entrepreneur. This assignment was for the National, the Abu Dhabi based newspaper’s motoring section. Essentially she takes the parts from cars that have some sort of significance (won a specific [...]
I recently had a few shoots for TimeOut Chicago’s series highlighting unique and valuable Chicago eateries that are struggling in the nonsense economy we have. I was also exposed to some cool new places that I might just have to go check out on my own time. This is an outtake of Bobby Syed, owner [...]
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 [...]
MyMidwest, the Midwest Airlines flight magazine recently wrote up a little piece about last year’s Soul of Athens project where I had some portraits included in a project called “Rural Progressives.” Jenn Poggi, formerly of U.S. News and World Report and now working in the White House photo department helped me produce the online piece. [...]