New York Times Vows: Molly Palmer and Lee Cowan
Network journalists Molly Palmer, and Lee Cowan sparked a romance during the notorious Balloon Boy coverage back in 2009. Last weekend they got married and I covered it for The New York Times Vows section.
USF NCAA Watch Party for the Tampa Bay Times
My first freelance assignment for The Tampa Bay Times is the USF NCAA Watch Party.
For Education Week: The Effects of Poverty on Education
I was tasked by Education Week director of photography Charlie Borst to find a student in the Baltimore City Public School system to be the face of poverty for a story about how socioeconomic status impacts educational success. Along the way I met homeless family Tameka Harrison and her first-grade son, Jahmal and got to spend a day with them and photograph Jahmal’s School City Spring Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore.
The New York Review of Books
A photo David Donaldson photographed in 2009 for a New York Times story was relicensed for a New York Review of Books story on public school education, titled “How, and How Not, to Improve the Schools.” David Donaldson, a high school teacher in the Teach for America program, with his students at the Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences, Baltimore, December 2009.
The Rising Cost of Day Care for the New York Times
Baltimore woman Sheontay Smith, 27, is on a waiting list for subsidized child care. She is photographed Tuesday, December 6, 2011 in the Southwest neighborhood of Baltimore “Sowebo” where she works as an inspection scheduler for the Baltimore Housing Authority. Day care for her three-year-old is $520 a month, her second highest monthly expense next [...]
For AARP Bulletin: The Faces of Social Security …and then some.
AARP Bulletin DOP Michael Wichita called me up a few months ago — actually, while I was in Denver for Geekfest – needing an in-house mock up made so he could pitch an illustration idea to his bosses for a big story they’re doing on the kind of people who use Social Security. He needed it [...]
Education Week: Safety & Restorative Practices
The Baltimore City charter school City Springs has implemented several structural practices such as single gender classrooms and the Restorative Practices pedagogy.
For The New York Times: Extreme Toilet Cleaning
Bethesda home organizer and interior designer Sally Carle shows how to destroy toilet germs, while staying green, for a New York Times story.
Kal Penn For The New York Times
Kal Penn, actor and former Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement, is photographed in a neighborhood of northwestern D.C. Tuesday, November 8, 2011. I got to meet a movie star a few weeks ago! Kal Penn! Some of you might know him as Kumar, Dr. Lawrence Kutner, or Gogol from The Namesake. …but I [...]
Martha Raddatz for the New York Times
ABC News Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz sits in her office at the ABC Washington DC Bureau Thursday, October 13, 2011. Martha is a super cool person. When we were setting up the shoot for a New York Times profile, she wanted to know what I was thinking for the shoot. So, I threw [...]
Vows For the New York Times : Jason Feifer & Jen Miller
Jason and Jen are a writerly couple. I love this quote from the story: “He used a semicolon correctly; that was reason enough to get a drink with him.”
Run For Your Life! Zombie 5k
Last weekend Weird Sports Photographer Sol Neelman & I shot the Run For Your Lives zombie 5k in Darlington, MD at Rablewood Saturday, October 22, 2011. The event is a zombie infested 5k obstacle course. I heard anywhere from
I’m on The Image Deconstructed this week!
In case y’all haven’t heard of The Image Deconstructed blog, it’s an amazing resource! It deals with photographers’ mental processes & as a whole, gives insite into how photographers think — and sometimes feel — when they’re making pictures. It’s the brain child of Ross Taylor, who — and it should go without saying — [...]
For AARP Bulletin: Iverson Mall Walkers
Members of the Iverson Mall Walkers walk the upstairs at Iverson Mall in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland Wednesday, September 14, 2011. This was an early shoot (yaaaaawn/streeetch), but
For the Chronicle of Higher Education: Wilson College’s Women With Children Program
Brinita Ricks, 20, middle, a Wilson College senior is getting attention from five-year-old son Troy Ricks, right, and Bella Smith during dinner at the Jensen Dining Hall Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Dana Hill, 26, walks past on the right, while Hill’s daughter DaNya Ford, 7, eats, left. Ricks, Hill, and Bella’s mother Whitney Gress take [...]
For AARP Bulletin: Chronic Pain Management Class
Gerald Genrich participates in the relaxation portion of the “You Can! Live Well Virginia!,” a six-week grant-funded program that helps seniors learn how to manage their chronic pain independently. The program offered at the Mount Vernon Rec Center in Alexandria, Virginia, ended the six-week workshop Tuesday, June 21, 2011. I shot this assignment for AARP [...]
Father & Son: Brad & Joe
Six-year-old Joe and his dad Brad play a made-up game at the Griffin, GA Starbucks Wednesday, August 10, 2011. They balled up a “cannonball” from a Starbuck’s napkin and knocked cups over. Brad said, “I guess you could call the cups soldiers.” “…like toy soldiers,” clarified Joe. I love it when I see Dad’s who [...]
Dr. Logan King, Equine Vet
Dr. Logan King, Equine Veterinarian, and I are long time college friends. — which is surprising considering I forgot his name the first three, maybe four, times we met. Luckily I redeemed myself by remembering every other fact about him. He’s valedictorian of his high school, pre-vet, loves grindcore. …I even remembered the layout of [...]
Sara asks Stephanie to Prom: For Education Week
Yes. Annapolis High School graduating senior Sara Dean, is asking another girl to prom. And no, neither are
For AARP Bulletin: Karen Ragland & comingofage.org
Karen Ragland, 60, an experienced accountant and auditor, was on the job hunt for 10 months before discovering the comingofage.org website, where Pennsylvanians 50 and over can find jobs and volunteer work. Now the Ambler PA woman, photographed in her office, works part time as a bookkeeper for the Wissahickon Watershed Valley Association, located a [...]
The Eddie Adams Workshop: My Student Essay from 2004
It’s not a coincidence that the day of this post (June 3rd) is the last day for students to apply to the 24th annual Eddie Adams Workshop. These are the photos I made as a student on The Brown Team. Anyone who gets accepted and is reading this post, heed my advice: keep your notes! [...]
Alex Price Soccer Player of the Year
Marriotts Ridge center midfielder Alex Price led the Mustangs to a 13-3-3 record and the girls soccer team’s first county championship. Here’s the corresponding Howard County Time Article. I couldn’t have asked for a better sky that day. …the temperature could’ve been better, though. If I remember correctly, it was hovering around 20-ish degrees, plus [...]
For AARP Bulletin: Mike Heckart
Mike Heckart, 58, of Hamburg, had trouble paying $600 a month for medicine before receiving help from the state’s prescription assistance program. Now he pays about $200. I recently got to hang out with Mike Hechart for an AARP Bulletin assignment. The story — which you can read here — is about a Pennsylvania state program [...]