Pianist Peter Robinson for Washingtonian
I like being asked to take pictures of interesting people with a million stories to tell. I also like music. This shoot was an all-around win. Read the interview here, but ignore the picture that goes with it. I didn’t send any files that looked like that. Did someone on the web team get a [...]
Marine Tee Hanible for Newsweek
It was a bittersweet phone call. Would I like to do an assignment for Newsweek?- saying yes but knowing it would be one of the last print editions of the storied magazine that I grew up with. I still remember the first time I noticed it in our house and started reading it. We were [...]
Designer Jonah Takagi for Wallpaper
I photographed DC-based designer Jonah Takagi for Wallpaper magazine. He lives with his cool rock star girlfriend in a classic DC home and at the time of the shoot was turning the attic into a workspace that doubled as a starkly beautiful studio. I love the all-white surface thing. Feels so clean! I also love [...]
Interviewed in Digital Photo Pro Magazine
Digital Photo Pro Magazine interviewed me recently in conjunction with an emerging pro contest they were running. Read the interview here
A Birthday Party at Build-A-Bear
My niece recently turned 5 and I found myself at another one of her birthday parties. I don’t have children of my own, so these gatherings are rare for me, unlike the parents in attendance at this party who seem to go to one or two every weekend. You may recall I photographed Emerson’s 4th [...]
Farewell to Thee, Instagram
HONEYMOON I got my first iPhone in January of last year. Instagram was pretty much the first app I downloaded and I immediately fell in love. I loved its ability to connect me to others visually and I began to quip in pictures. I loved the way the images looked on my phone and I [...]
Sports Fan Coalition Lobbying for ESPN Magazine
I photographed Brian Frederick, executive director of Sports Fans Coalition, lobbying congress and the FCC to end the NFL’s television blackout policy. I don’t really watch pro football, so I was surprised to learn that in the teams’ home markets, the games are not televised if they aren’t sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff. The [...]
ATF Fire Research Laboratory for Washingtonian
I’m gonna start this post by saying I’m a life-long pyro. I love fire. It terrified and fascinated me as a child. I used to watch episodes of Rescue 911 and I would pay extra close attention to the house fire segments so that I would know what to do when it happened to me. [...]
Ms. Veteran America for NY Mag’s The Cut
I had an incredible run of awesome assignments last year and this shoot for New York Magazine’s The Cut blog was definitely one of them. The inaugural Ms. Veteran America competition combined three of my favorite things- women’s issues, warrior culture, and pageantry. The competition was formed, according to the official website, “to showcase ‘The Woman Beyond [...]
Josh Rushing for The Alcalde
The University of Texas has a cool alumni magazine and they reached out to me last year to shoot a particularly interesting alumnus of theirs. Josh Rushing was a public affairs officer in the U.S. Marine Corps when he was featured in the documentary Control Room about Al Jazeera during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. [...]