Assignment: Rolling Stone- Tom Morello
Probably the coolest assignment during all this mayhem in Madison has been for Rolling Stone Magazine. The assignment was to shadow guitar star and protest rocker Tom Morello- of Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave and The Night Watchman. Morello was a blast to shoot and the day was full of frozen fists raised high in [...]
Assignment: Madison Madison- Kaleem Caire
My plan for this portrait was to shoot it outside, in high reeds and snow to convey an idea of wilderness and frontier- endless possibilities. Kaleem Caire, the subject of the story, is starting a new private school in Madison, Wisconsin (he is also the president of the Greater Madison Urban League) and I thought [...]
Photo Essay: Madison Protests
A photo essay from the protests that have been taking place for two weeks at the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. Protesters have been demonstrating against a controversial budget bill by Republican Governor Scott Walker that would cut state employee benefits and curtail state employee collective bargaining rights, effectively eliminating labor unions. More images are [...]
Assignment: New York Times- Madison, Wisconsin Protests
For the last 2 weeks, minus a few days here and there, I have been on assignment for The New York Times covering the large protests and demonstrations that have been taking place at the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. Huge crowds, at times reaching 70,000 to 100,000 people, have been protesting Governor Scott Walker [...]
French Guiana photos in Harper’s Magazine
I am always excited when I have newly published work to announce, but this one is the most exciting, and I have been waiting a long time for this issue to actually come out, which is now in the February issue of Harper’s Magazine. Some background on how this story, about illegal gold mining in [...]
New Portfolio and Promo Cards
In preparation for my upcoming trip to New York City to meet with photo editors, art buyers and art directors, I’ve made a new portfolio and promo cards. I try to meet with editors in NYC about once a year… well, whenever I am in The City I try to see editors. I will be [...]
Assignment: USA Today
This past weekend I headed a little north to the small town of Portage, Wisconsin to shoot an assignment for USA Today. The story was about travel agents and how there is some kind of resurgence in the business, which of course has been battered by people like me and everyone I know buying and [...]
Assignments: Wisconsin Governor-elect Scott Walker, Senator Russ Feingold and Senator-elect Ron Johnson for The New York Times
Well, I am sure we are all suffering from Post-Election Traumatic Stress Syndrome. For me it means a little more work, a lot more driving and even more biting my tongue. This campaign season I was sent to follow mainly one race, the Senate race between Senator Russ Feingold and Ron Johnson. After the election, [...]
Assignment: Michigan Congressional Race for The New York Times
Last week I got sent on a long drive north to a far corner of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to the town of Iron Mountain, to shoot a story about the congressional race taking place right now. That story ran in today’s issue of The New York Times -http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/us/politics/13michigan.html?ref=politics I was thrilled to shoot this assignment [...]
A book cover… in Azerbaijan?
I like to keep tabs on what’s going on in the unrecognized countries that I have worked in for my book project, Lands in Limbo, so I have Google Alerts to help me keep up. Well, yesterday, I was looking through my the Northern Cyprus alert caught when one story caught my attention, a new [...]
Assignment: Dr. Giulio Tononi for New York Times
Last week I shot a portrait for The New York Times, which ran in today’s edition in the Science Times section. The assignment was to do a portrait of Dr. Guilio Tononi, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin, who is at the forefront of consciousness studies… so a brilliant, and intense, guy. [...]
Ironman Wisconsin
It’s been a while since I’ve shot any sporting events, but this past weekend I decided I would go to the Ironman triathlon that was held here in Madison. I was able to get on a media moto and cruise around the course, which highlighted some of the areas fantastic cycling roads. The city showed [...]
Saying I Do… and I Don’t
Saying I do. I don’t shoot a lot of weddings, OK, I almost never shoot weddings. But when one of my best friends asked if I would photograph his wedding, I, of course, said I will. This past weekend I went back to Seattle for his wedding (for which I was also a groom’s man). [...]
Living with Animals
I’m not a wildlife photographer and I have never tried, nor pretended to be. That said, I do love photographing animals, in their wild and in ours. I was recently going through my archives looking for photos of animals to make some prints for my 9-year old niece’s birthday (her mother said she has passed [...]
Issue One- Starting From Scratch… Again
That feeling of moving to a city is both exciting and daunting. All the possibilities of success and failure are in front of you. Starting over can be an opportunity as well as a set-back. This is what I’m facing now. I have just moved to Madison, WI from Seattle and it’s time to get [...]
