Take a Moment: Tyler Hicks

And watch Tyler Hick’s newest multimedia story from Afghanistan, about the loss of Pfc. Richard A. Dewater.

It is moving and claustrophobic, exacty as it should be.

NC National Guard Deploys to Iraq

Several hundred members of the 30th Brigade Heavy Combat Team of the North Carolina National Guard left for Iraq last night. About 4000 members will be heading over in the next week or so for a 12 month tour. Been following these men and women for a while now as they prepared to go, [...]

V(i)P

Our new Vice President came to Ft. Bragg on Wednesday to welcome home the 18th Airborne Corps, who have been serving in Iraq for the last 15 months. This was the first time I have seen Biden in person, although I photographed all the other candidates last year. He was kinda funny, even mentioning, [...]

For all you fans…

Of UNC basketball. It goes without saying that college basketball is big around here, UNC, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, etc.

Well, UNC won the NCAA men’s basketball title last night and thousands took to the streets.

We were all excited to say the least.

More images here for all those looking.

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Efterklang

As someone who is not a huge fan of shooting live music, I love shooting more featurish tour stories on bands just not so much the actual show, it is a pleasure when the band I have been assigned to shoot is up to have me tag along a bit before the show and acutally [...]

NASCAR Land for the New York Times

Had a fun assignment last week for the NYT to travel to Martinsville, VA and see how the economic downturn has affected the town, which has put a lot of faith in the power of stock car racing to bring it back from the perpetually high unemployment that has gripped the area since the closing [...]