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 [...]
Kevin Rose for Fast Company
I did a day (and a half) in the life of Kevin Rose for dream-client Fast Company. This involved flying to San Francisco and hanging out with the Digg founder and current Google Ventures guru who leads a delightful life filled with meetings in coffee houses and tea lounges and a snuggly dog and beautiful [...]
Dr. Howard McMahan for Parade Magazine
Parade sent me to teeny tiny Ocilla, Ga. last March to spend a few days with a modern country doctor. Dr. McMahan (or Dr. Mac, as he is commonly called) is one of the last of his kind. We were hoping for a contemporary take on Eugene Smith’s original country doctor essay, but housecalls are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Refugee Chihuahuas for the Wall Street Journal
I got a call from the WSJ asking if I was free last-minute to shoot a two-day story on chihuahuas that were being flown from California to Virginia. Apparently, there is a glut of unwanted chihuahuas out there and a bit of a shortage and demand out here. I have exactly two soft spots on [...]
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 [...]
Styleliner for USA TODAY
I photographed fashionista Joey Wolffer inside her boutique-on-wheels, the Styleliner. I love assignments where I’m surrounded by beautiful shiny things. I definitely kept my eyes peeled for accessories and I spent my assignment money the moment I was done shooting. This happens on retail assignments more often than I’d like to admit.
Herman Cain for GQ
Around this time last year, Herman Cain was a shooting star in the Republican primary. With his blindingly white smile and catch-phrase policy (9-9-9 anyone?) he communicated his ideas in an affable way and people responded. I got called in to photograph a lunch between Cain and a trio of GQ editors at Seventh Hill [...]
Cohousing for the AARP Bulletin
A while back, I got to go to Nevada City, California to check out a beautiful little cohousing community. For those of you who don’t know (and I didn’t before this assignment) cohousing is, according to wikipedia “a type of intentional community composed of private homes supplemented by shared facilities. The community is planned, owned and managed by the [...]
Double Takes: My Love of Celebrity Impersonator Conventions
[A Lady Gaga greets an LL Cool J] I sent myself to Las Vegas to check out the Celebrity Impersonator Convention earlier this year. The moment I realized this was a thing that people actually did, I knew I had to go and I was not disappointed. At first, it was every bit as strange [...]
Butcher Tanya Cauthen for Weight Watchers Magazine
I photographed badass butcher Tanya Cauthen, proprietor of Belmont Butchery in Richmond, VA. This shoot had many of my favorite things. Cool earrings, sharp knives and most of all meat.
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 [...]
Coach John Thompson III for Washingtonian
The fine folks over at Washingtonian Magazine have been sending some real plum assignments my way lately. I photographed Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson III for a great profile piece by Brett Haber (read it here), doing my thing as both a photojournalist and a portrait photographer. I spent several hours at practice shooting the [...]
Lawrence Lewis for the Wall Street Journal
In 2007, Lawrence Lewis pled guilty in federal court to violating the Clean Water Act after diverting a backed-up sewage system which threatened to overwhelm the facilities at his then place of employment. After losing several family members to crime and other related issues, Lewis made it a point to lead an honest, crime-free life. [...]
Stranded- Another Crazy Night in Brooklyn
I photographed another one of my friend’s killer brooklyn parties. I like going up to shoot these things to remind myself that there are still true bohemians in the world- because you certainly can’t find them in Washington D.C. [You know that old adage that suggests you should dance like no one is watching? This guy got [...]
Ray Mahmood for Washingtonian
I photographed Ray Mahmood at his sprawling mansion in Mount Vernon, Va. for Washingtonian magazine in December. The Pakistani native came to America decades ago and built a fortune which he now uses to cozy up to the political elite here in DC as a powerbroker and shaper of American-Pakistan policy. The night that [...]
Stefani Rash and Rina Shah’s Workday Diaries for Marie Claire
I shot a two-part assignment for Marie Claire this summer that had me running up to Delaware as well as more familiar territory on Capitol Hill. The Workday Diaries feature is a regular section in the magazine which chronicles the 9-5 workdays of young women around the country. Day-in-the-life assignments are a bit of [...]
Michael Vick’s Friends and Family for ESPN The Magazine
I’ve been a big admirer of all things photo in ESPN The Magazine for years now, so when they came calling (via my wonderful agent at Redux Pictures) I was over the moon. They told me they were devoting the lion’s (eagle’s?) share of an issue to Michael Vick and they wanted me [...]
Robb Duncan of Dolcezza for the Wall Street Journal
Gelato is a magical thing. It tastes richer than ice cream, but it’s half as bad for you. It’s my frozen treat of choice, so when I got a call from the Wall Street Journal asking me if I could photograph a master gelato artisan, I was pretty excited. Robb Duncan and his wife Violeta [...]
Rachael Ray Goes to Washington
There’s nothing more intimidating than shooting a subject for her eponymous magazine. Turns out I had nothing to worry about and Rachael Ray is the biggest sweetheart you’d ever want to meet. That famous smile of hers didn’t crack the entire day I followed her around the hill as she lobbied for healthier school lunches [...]
New Orleans Film Locations for People Magazine
I went down to the Gulf Coast back in early May to cover the oil spill. The first call I got when I hit the tarmac was from Redux asking if I could shoot a travel feature for my mother’s all-time favorite magazine, People. While her love for the magazine is slowly waning in proportion [...]
Rock Bottom Remainders for the AARP Bulletin
“Tuesdays with Morrie” author Mitch Albom channels The King (Elvis, not fellow bandmate Stephen King). Much like Brigadoon, the musical supergroup that is the Rock Bottom Remainders appears out of the mists only once in a blue moon. If you’re lucky to catch them in concert, you will be treated to the likes of literary [...]
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, [...]