Generation Kill: Major League Gaming

To be honest, not since the days of  7-11 Street Fighter matches, have I cared about video games. Sure, I have battled my friends in various shooting games here and there over the years, but it has just never been my thing, always seemed like there was something else [...]

On Assignment: Picky Eaters for the WSJ

Spent the day with Heather Hill and her family for a story about picky eating habits and how they can be passed along to children.

Here is how  writer Shirley Wang describes the story:

“This is what Heather Hill eats: French fries, pasta with butter or marinara sauce, [...]

On Assignment: Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods for the NYT

So I got the call to photograph Vanessa Woods for the Science section of the New York Times. She recently published a book on her research on bonobos in the Congo that she conducted with her husband, Brain Hare.

Since heading to the Congo was out of the [...]

On Assignment: Putting for the NYT

So last week I found myself in

for a shoot with a couple of guys, Eric Alpenfels and Dr. Bob Christina, who have developed a theory that it is better to look at the hole while putting in golf, rather than the ball.

Ok, honestly, I know nothing about [...]

On Assignment: Black Farmers for the NYT

Spent a cloudy morning and afternoon tooling around the Baskerville, VA area with Dr. John Boyd, Jr. the president of the National Black Farmers Association. He is leading a coalition of black farmers looking for a settlement of claims of loan discrimination against them by the Federal Government. President Clinton approved [...]

On Assignment: Julia Gaffield for Liberation

Got an email from Liberation, the French newspaper, a few weeks ago to make a portrait of Duke University graduate student Julia Gaffield, who discovered the original printed version of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence in the National Archives in London in February. It was a fun shoot, around the Duke campus [...]

On Assignment: Tony Avent for the New York Times

Gardening is not my usual cup of tea. I love tomatoes and all the veggies, but my thumb is quite black when it comes to growing things. That being said, I spent the day wandering the Juniper Level Botanic Gardens with owner Tony Avent for the Home section of the New York Times [...]

On Assignment: WTU’s for the New York Times

I spent a few hours in the western mountains of Virginia a couple of weeks ago working on some portraits of James Agee, a two tour veteran of the war in Iraq who on his return was diagnosed with TBI and PTSD. Agee was set to be medically discharged from the [...]

On Assignment: Bruce Ladd for the WSJ

Got a call from new client The Wall Street Journal several days ago to photograph Bruce Ladd, the founder and president of the Emil Verban  Society, a group of political movers and shakers, think Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton, who also happen to be major Chicago Cubs fans. Obama, [...]

On Assignment: Vollis Simpson for the New York Times Art and Design

Had the pleasure of making portraits of Vollis Simpson, a 91 year old former farm equipment salesman who is now considered one of the masters of the whirligig. His work graces the yard of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and works every day at his shop in Lucama, NC.

Mr [...]