Ancient Apples for the New York Times

Lee Calhoun has spent over 30 years collecting old southern apple varieties and planting them in his orchard in hopes of sustaining the breeds. Around the Japanese style house he built 40 years ago with his wife and son, he has planted and sustained many types of apples long forgotten, [...]

A Few Photos From the Week Past

Back from tour with the Spider Bags and oh boy, I have a lot of material to wade through but it was amazing, both visually and musically, thanks to all that put us up.

Until I get that edited, here are a few photos from the past week, or 10 days, [...]

TruckHead

Costa Rica

Brian OliverSmith for the NYT

Just before the holidays, I spent a bit of time with Brian OliverSmith, the ceo of Urban Planet Mobile, for the NYT business section. His company offers language and SAT prep classes to clients worldwide via text message. Everyday they will send you a text with a link to your [...]

In Passing | John Blackburn

Very sorry to hear that John Blackburn, a former Duke economics professor and advocate for renewable energy, has passed away. We spent a morning together last year to make portraits for this story and he was a joy to talk to and taught me a lot about the debate over [...]

Inside Out

This kid used to hang out at our house all hours of the day, never went home, never saw his parents. He and his brother would just wander up and down the street, running through yards, breaking stuff, being kids. This was his favorite trick.

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Frank Hyman for the New York Times

Frank Hyman, a former member of the Durham City Council, was the subject of a NYT story that I shot a few weeks back. Mr. Hyman has managed to create a financially stable lifestyle of out several of his passions, or hobbies. He writes, as he did the article I [...]

The Week 12.15-12.22.1020

Kaze

Ethan Clauset | All Day Records

Formerly Planned Housing Development

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Alzheimer’s for the New York Times

Did a quick portrait shoot for the New York Times a week or so ago of Marjie Popkin, who at age 60 was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.

So far, Margie mostly has trouble remembering details and numbers but remains in good health and with help from her friend [...]

James “Blood” Ulmer

In keeping with the recent music theme around here, I just uploaded some images from a 2005 shoot with James “Blood” Ulmer for the now defunct (at least in print), and much missed, No Depression magazine. It was one of my first assignments and I had been warned that he [...]