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 [...]
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 [...]
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“, [...]
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. [...]
The Crawford Family for the Wall Street Journal
[Wayne and Judy Crawford are photographed at their home in Cumberland, MD. They lost their son, Scott Crawford, after a lengthy and costly hospital stay which was covered by Medicare. Scott Crawford represented a small percentage of high-cost patients which account for a significant amount of the Medicare budget.] The Crawfords were very gracious in [...]
Wall Street Journal Shoots – A Mixtape
In addition to some fantastic larger projects, the Wall Street Journal has been keeping me busy this year with a number of quick and fun little shoots this year. Here’s a sampling. Holly Shimizu, Executive Director of the U.S. Botanic Garden, works with her sturdy, handy and indispensable gardening fork by English company Clarington Forge. [...]
Saudi Graduates for the Wall Street Journal
I had the great pleasure to photograph a graduation celebration for Saudi Arabian nationals. They participated in the nation’s American foreign study program, earning advanced degrees with the idea being they take their skills and knowledge back to their homeland to become the next generation of Saudi Arabia’s leaders. I lived in Bahrain- Saudi Arabia’s [...]
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 [...]
Hidden Gems for Washingtonian
I got a pretty sweet assignment from Washingtonian which had me running all over DC, Maryland and Virginia to photograph local notables and their “hidden gems.” These were places and things that you might not find in a guidebook, or even know about if you’re a local. I only knew one place on my shoot [...]
Green Awards for Washingtonian
Washingtonian asked me to photograph the 2012 recipients of their annual Green Awards earlier this year. Here are some outs from the shoots.
Buck Showalter for Bloomberg Businessweek
I called my brother up the other week and told him I had a last-minute shoot with Buck Showalter. My brother has an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and is an Orioles fan, so I was hoping he could give me a little background on their team manager. I did my research and planned as best [...]
Ginger Miller for Essence
I photographed Ginger Miller for Essence Magazine at her home in Maryland as she and a group of volunteers prepared packages filled with toiletries and other lovely things for homeless female veterans. A former homeless veteran herself, Miller started an organization called John 14:2 with its stated purpose “to restore hope, provide housing options, and support [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Brian Traynor for Genome Technology
I shot my second cover story for Genome Technology in October. They sent me to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD to photograph Dr. Bryan Traynor. He, along with his crack team of researchers, discovered genetic markers for ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. I love science and research and labs, so it was [...]
Dr. Novin for the Wall Street Journal
I photographed Dr. Neil Novin for a disturbing story on the state of the Social Security Administration. The agency has a stable of doctors that review cases of the people who apply for federal disability benefits. This year, they told those doctors that the number of applicants was too great and in response, the Administration [...]
Julia Ingham for the Wall Street Journal
Julia Ingham got sucked into a bad real estate deal in Florida in the hopes of making some good money for her retirement. She invested in four properties which were all foreclosed upon and six years on, she finds herself on the receiving end of a deficiency judgement. Read the article here to learn more [...]
Terry Jackson for the AARP Bulletin
I photographed retired Maryland Army National Guard Master Sergeant Terry Jackson at her home in Edgewood, MD. The Bronze Star recipient served her country for 31 years and was being featured for an article about an expo for female veterans and their families and caregivers.
Beatles Collector Russ Lease for AARP.org
I got a phone call from AARP.org a while back with a really neat assignment: photograph Beatles memorabilia collector Russ Lease with his incredible collection. The guy isn’t your run of the mill hobbyist- he owns more gold records than most recording artists. That they happen to all be Beatles gold records makes them pretty [...]
New AARP President Lee Hammond for the AARP Bulletin
I got to spend a little time in Salisbury, Maryland where I photographed incoming AARP President Lee Hammond for the AARP Bulletin. The pressure was a bit higher on this shoot since he’s the president of the organization that produces the publication (and a retired school administrator to boot) but it couldn’t have been a [...]
Lori Singleton-Clarke for the Wall Street Journal
Miss Singleton-Clarke fought the man and won. What makes her case exceptional is that she fought the IRS without a lawyer. She got her papers in order, prepared her case, and won a victory that sets a precedent for thousands of other Americans in her shoes. She’s seen here clasping the paperwork that she so [...]
Wolf Blitzer for Every Day With Rachael Ray
I did a shoot back in November for Rachael Ray’s magazine. She has a regular column where she talks to celebrities about the contents of their refrigerators. The picture I took of Wolf Blitzer finally ran in the March issue which hit newsstands last week. I arrived at Wolf’s suburban Maryland home early in the [...]
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 [...]
Funeral Plot Real Estate for the Wall Street Journal
This was a pretty interesting story. The gentleman pictured above, Mr. John Dotson, purchased a double plot in a Maryland cemetery from a traveling salesman in the early 90s. He planned to spend the hereafter with his wife in the quiet memorial park near his home. However life (or death) is what happens when you’re [...]