Nina Easton for Fortune
I photographed Fortune senior editor and columnist Nina Easton last fall for her cover story entitled “Is it Still OK to be Rich in America?” We were going for an environmental portrait with a “home-y” feel, hence the bare feet. I think shoelessness is an amazing thing for a portrait. It has the potential [...]
Henry Ellenbogen for Fortune
The best office shoots happen when you can get away from the office. The subject and I went from a conference room to a stylish lobby to a labyrinthian fountain adjacent to Baltimore’s inner harbor. The lobby won, but it’s always nice to have options.
DC Sports for ESPN
Here are some pictures I took last September from a story that got shelved by the NHL lockout. I spent a long weekend with a reporter from ESPN Magazine wandering the streets of the metro area, photographing hockey fans who had something to say about star Capitals player Alex Ovechkin. The story was supposed to [...]
Bill Gates for Fast Company
The phone call- whoa. Could I possibly fly to Austin, TX last-minute to photograph Bill Gates? It’s the start of SXSW, so there are no affordable hotels and flights are insanely expensive, but is this do-able? Oh yeah. It’s doable. And I did it. I even re-arranged 3 conflicting shoots to make this one happen. [...]
Geico CMO Ted Ward Cover Shoot for Advertising Age
Geico is of one of the nation’s most recognizable brands and producers of so many simultaneous ad campaigns that it’s hard to keep track of them all. That a trade magazine about the advertising industry would ask me to photograph Geico’s CMO is actually pretty rad for me. That’s because I LOVE ADS. When I was [...]
Paul Ryan and Dick Durbin for the Wall Street Journal
I’ve been photographing these breakfasts lately for the Wall Street Journal. Two prominent editors (Jerry Seib & David Wessel) invite national politicians to discuss matters of import with selected members of the DC political press corps. The first of these breakfasts featured Congressman and former Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan. It’s part of my [...]
Love Hacker Amy Webb for the Wall Street Journal
Author Amy Webb met her husband Brian through the internet. Lots of people are doing that these days, but she took it to the next level, leveraging her background as a journalist and data analyst to deconstruct the system and reconstruct her profile. She even wrote a book about the proccess, “Data, A Love Story“, [...]
Archive Crawl
I’ve recently been asked to submit work based on a theme for a couple of upcoming group shows. This has put me in the new and interesting position of going through my archives with fresh eyes and a fresh purpose, attempting to assemble a cohesive essay from hundreds of thousands of disparate moments. It hurts [...]
Johnny Newman for Sports Illustrated
Last Summer, S.I. called me up and asked me to go down to Richmond to shoot portraits of former NBA player Johnny Newman for a “where are they now?” feature. I found Johnny to be both exceptionally tall (kind of a given, no?) and exceptionally kind and generous with his time. There were some cool [...]
John Judge for the Wall Street Journal
JFK assassination researcher John Judge is photographed at his home in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, December 19, 2012. The city of Dallas, TX is denying him and other conspiracy theorists a permit to gather at the assassination site during the event’s 50th anniversary. Mr. Judge had mountains of research materials in his home. We did [...]
Solha the Dog (and her family) for Ladies Home Journal
I got to spend a stellar afternoon in the Virginia countryside with Jessie and Jake, their daughter June, and their dog Solha. Jake met Solha while he was deployed to Afghanistan and upon his return, the family worked to adopt her and bring her to the U.S. Jessie Knadler, the author of the piece and [...]
Candy Crowley for USA Today
USA Today called me a few days before the Candy Crowley-moderated presidential debate for an assignment to photograph her during her workday at CNN. As the network’s chief political correspondent, Crowley seemed like a solid choice to be moderator, but she faced immense criticism both prior to and after the debate. I do suppose that’s [...]
Christopher Landau for American Lawyer
Oh, hello super awesome view from a rooftop right next to the White House. Hello Secret Service guys stationed on the roof of the White House. Hello subject who looks like he belongs in an Eddie Bauer catalogue. Thanks for making my shoot so pleasant. Thanks to the fine folks at Redux and also American Lawyer magazine [...]
Kevin Powers for Parade
I shot two covers for Parade Magazine in 2012. This is the first one to run and it’s my first national cover. When I did my Secretary Clinton story for the magazine in 2009, I was supposed to have shot that cover as well, but Clinton didn’t have 5 minutes in her schedule for a [...]
Six Shoots for Government Executive
2012 was my first year shooting for Government Executive magazine. They’ve been a fantastic client and I’ve been lucky to work on several assignments with them in the area. For the photographers out there who think the big nationals are the end-all-be-all, don’t discount the niche publications. They are almost always completely awesome. My job [...]
Chef Patrick O’Connell for the Wall Street Journal
One of my very favorite assignments of all-time took place last summer when I was asked to go to the Inn at Little Washington to photograph proprietor and chef Patrick O’Connell. The storied hotel and restaurant serves as a brilliant example of how to do it right. Classic and elegant, yet dotted with eclectic touches, [...]
Caroline Jhingory for Fitness
I cannot conceive of losing 156 lbs, but my subject Caroline did just that. Revisiting this shoot I did for Fitness magazine in November reminds me that while many things in life are completely out of our hands, the way we treat our bodies is fully within our control. One of the things that was out [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
AARP Bulletin in 2012
Here’s a few snaps from some AARP Bulletin assignments this year in the state of Maryland. I love Bulletin shoots- the people I get to photograph are so darn sweet. Haven’t met a curmudgeon yet.
Henry Winkler for AARP
One of my very favorite editors called me up this fall and asked me to choose between two assignments occurring at the same time. One was something I’ve already forgotten, and the other was shooting portraits of Henry Winkler. So you see here which one I selected. I might be the biggest Arrested Development fan I know, [...]