Portrait of the Day: Curls /
Portrait of the Day: Max's Pre-Birthday (Detroit, 2013) /
Katie and Adam stood for this portrait before she gave birth to their first child, Maxine. With Max about to turn 5, here's a look at her pre-birthday.
Portrait of the Day (Guatemala City, Guatemala 2015) /
The main cemetery in Guatemala City is amazing, filled with audacious mausoleums and row stacked upon row of crypts for the lower classes, which sit at the rear of the cemetery directly above the enormous vulture-filled city dump at the bottom of the cliff. This gentleman plays songs for families visiting graves of the departed. Here he was resting in the shade of one of the normal sized mausoleums.
quito: street photography as vacation /
in may of 2017, i spent some time in ecuador. for a week i walked through quito with a beat-up camera and a bottle of water, looking for lines, colors, shadows, shapes. just like my early days of living in NYC, when i taught myself photography by walking through new neighborhoods with a Nikon 2020 and shooting as much as i could.
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Portrait of the Day: Josh (Cincinnati, OH 2017) /
Josh protesting the Westboro Baptist Church protesters outside Oak Hills High school near Cincinnati.
on the road, between detroit and cleveland /
while working on a story for The Guardian, i traveled from Detroit to Cleveland, in the run-up to the RNC in 2016. I shot a series of images, landscapes and portraits capturing a slice of life found along the way.
ongoing, old and new /
After years of living with my old website, I'm really happy to have this new site, with a new design and updated work. I plan to use the blog to show work that I'm happy with, but not "deserving" of a permanent place on the main site, from single images to essays.
Such as this portrait of Marcus.
This is Marcus. While being homeless, he was in a dumpster which was then upended/loaded into a garbage truck (unbeknownst to the driver). As the truck compacted the trash, Marcus lost the lower part of his right leg. His story was told in an article in The Guardian, in an article cataloging numerous similar incidents. I shot his portrait to accompany the article. Marcus currently lives in a recovery home just north of Detroit.