A Baltimore Trauma Center Shift for the Wall Street Journal
I shoot a pretty wide variety of subjects, mostly features or portraits. I love to shoot features, and portraits pay the bills- but it’s rare I get commissioned to shoot anything in the hard news category let alone investigative journalism. When one of my editors at the Wall Street Journal called me up to ask [...]
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 [...]
The Heart Attack Grill
There is a magical place in Las Vegas, NV where you must wear a hospital gown while eating bypass burgers, smoking unfiltered cigarrettes, and drinking butterfat milkshakes. If you tip the scales past 350 lbs, your meal is free, brought to you by sexy nurses and surgeons. Excess and obesity and poor heart health and [...]
John Wojnowski for Washingtonian
I spent two days photographing John Wojnowski, a man who has protested corruption and pedophilia within the Catholic Church on one street corner for 14 years. He himself is the victim of abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest, an incident which he kept secret for years and which impacted his life so profoundly [...]
Homeboy Industries for Fast Company
I find myself pondering how curious it is that I would be called upon to document an organization and a group of people in Los Angeles that I had been keen to shoot when I lived there, but not until well after I moved back to D.C. I think that it is destiny and I [...]
Keystone Pipeline Protest for Bloomberg Markets
I photographed a day of protest at the White House last year for a subject which garnered a lot of attention thanks to a few high-profile celebrity arrests. These folks are spitting mad about the proposed expansion of the pipeline that delivers crude from the tar sands of Canada to the United States. The president [...]
South Carolina Primary Part 2
I covered a lot of Romney in South Carolina. He put on a good show and had a pretty good turnout at most of the events, but that didn’t help him on Primary Night. This will likely be my last campaign post before the conventions this summer. I can’t wait for the general! For some [...]
South Carolina Primary Part 1
I drove down to the charming and delightful state of South Carolina to cover the Republican primary which has historically picked the nominee in every election since it started in 1980. As we know by now, that did not happen this year. Nothing has been very predictable this year. This year is insane. Gingrich was [...]
Behind The Scenes at Joint Base Andrews for Washingtonian Magazine online
Kyle Gustafson, the web director for Washingtonian Magazine, called me up a few months ago with an interesting proposition. He wanted me to shoot behind the scenes at Joint Base Andrews and show the receiving process for the wounded warriors coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. The end result would be an online slideshow featuring [...]
Occupy Wall Street
I’d been trolling the internet for weeks, indignantly calling for better photographs of what had been described to me over and over again as a transcendent movement. Based upon the pictures, Occupy Wall Street did not look transcendent. It looked like every other damn left-wing protest photographed in America going back at least 15 years. [...]
Sarah Ivens for Marie Claire
Marie Claire called me up last October to go to Kentucky to photograph Sarah Ivens, who had experienced the trauma of having to give up her pregnancy. It’s tragic enough when a woman is told her fetus is not viable, especially when that woman has tried desperately to get pregnant in the first place, but [...]
2010 – Part 3 of 4 – Projects
I was lucky enough to work on five projects in 2010. Three were personal projects that I set out to shoot, one fell in my lap and the other was commissioned. This post features two pictures from each of the four projects. The fifth one isn’t ready for primetime just yet. Prison Babies: Essence Magazine [...]
The Holy Land Experience
Last summer, I made a pilgrimage of sorts to a place I’d seen in a movie. I caught half of Bill Maher’s “Religulous” and saw a scene in which he interviews a man who plays Jesus at a theme park in Orlando called the Holy Land Experience. I was stupefied that such a place existed, [...]
CEO Severance for the Wall Street Journal
Last month, I shadowed Paul Joegriner for a story that ran on the front page of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. Once again, they did a nice job with both the article and slideshow. It’s becoming slightly redundant for me to say that I enjoyed my day following so and so around, because I always enjoy [...]
The Renna-McElrath Family for USA TODAY
I photographed Cathy Renna and Leah McElrath as they took their daughter Rosemary to school for a USA TODAY story about a bill before the Washington City Council that would allow same-sex couples to marry. Cathy and Leah have already been married to each other twice. The first time was in a religious ceremony and [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for PARADE Magazine
Photographing Secretary Clinton at the State Department is like observing a moose in the wild. You’re really hoping to see it do something interesting like get into a fight with a bear or go for a swim or don a top hat and perform a musical number- but mostly it just stands around grazing. Secretary [...]
Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Bob McDonnell for USA Today
As I sit at my computer and write this post on election day eve here in Virginia, I find myself thinking about the importance of local politics. Voter turnout is likely to be a little lower this year than last. Without the glamor and excitement of a presidential election, folks just don’t get out to [...]
Congressman Frank Kratovil for TIME
It’s rare that I get to shoot anything outdoors anymore but the other week, I got a call asking me to spend the day following freshman congressman Frank Kratovil around his district. It was almost entirely outdoors on a glorious day. I even got a sunburn. Blue was definitely the color of the day and [...]
White House for TIME
A few weeks ago, I was asked to show up at the White House to spend the day covering for another photographer who couldn’t make it for the obligatory pool coverage. I was more than happy to oblige, and thankfully I wasn’t thrown into the deep end. It was a slow day at La Casa [...]
Congressman Charles Rangel for TIME
I shot my first assignment for TIME Magazine back in July. They asked me to shoot a portrait of Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) in the morning and then follow him around for a few hours. To me, this is the best kind of assignment. You get to know your subject a little bit and engage [...]