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 [...]
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 [...]
Old Tearsheets
I came across some old tearsheets that I finally got around to scanning and posting. Jack Magazine- July 2007- Breakdancing! Wizard Rock- Harry and the Potters Maxwell School- University of Syracuse- Fall 2007 PDN- Photo District News- May 2010 PowerHouse Magazine- 2008 Transitions Abroad Magazine- April 2007 Mare- Netherlands- March 2010 National Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
