For the New York Times: DC’s new Media Brat Pack
Brian Beutler, reporter with Talking Points Memo, and Dave Weigel’s (seen below) roommate, works at Sticky Fingers Bakery in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington DC Friday, March 4, 2011. Brian Beutler is part of a friend group comprised of increasingly influential DC political journalists and bloggers. These are some photos from a super fun [...]
For Howard Magazine: Best Cobbler
Yup! they still exist. Cobblers will fix your shoes. Estefan Karan works at King’s Cobbler in Columbia, voted Best shoe repair for Howard Magazine 2010. Don’t ya just love the textures of all those machines? You know how an amazing experience can make you think a photo is better than it actually is? Well, the [...]
For Education Week: Turn Around Schools
The management of Garrison Middle School, a Baltimore City Public School, was taken over by Global Partnership Schools, a private company charged with turning the formerly underperforming school around. I shot a really interesting assignment for Education Week Thursday, February 24, 2011. In some districts across the nation, private, for profit companies are being allowed to [...]
The Baltimore Freedom Academy: For People Magazine (sorta)
The “H”-less door leading to the formers teacher’s lounge now serves as the office for the school’s Child Study Team. The building housing the Baltimore Freedom Academy, a grade 6-12 Baltimore public charter school focusing in social justice, was built in 1960. Fifty years later, the school is in disrepair. Old pipes make water from [...]
Blake Andrews’: PISSED!
Flag-laden Simon Penning, age 19, from Guilford, MD, middle, joins other Preakness-goers and uses the cracks in between the the wheelchair accessible portable toilets to urinate. Infrequent rains, beer, and urine, made this particular part of the infield muddier and more pungent than other areas. Blake Andrews recently made a really good and insightful (well, [...]
For USA Today: Cyrus Kouandjio’s (sorta) Signing Day.
As subtle as this image is, it speaks volumes… Cyrus Kouandjio puts down his signing pen, no ink dispelled, while the rest of his DeMatha teammates sign their college commitment papers. ESPN ranks him as the third best high school player in the nation, and there’s been a buzz about who he’s committing to. He’s [...]
For AARP Bulletin: ‘If you are lonely or widowed, come to dinner.’
Ron Wachob takes a cookie from volunteer Lynda Sherwood during the weekly community supper held at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Landisville, PA Thursday, January 6, 2011. About a month ago I made some images for AARP Bulletin way out in middle Pennsylvania of a weekly community church dinner. Here’s the accompanying story and slideshow. [...]
My Best “Runts” of 2010 pt. 3
Why oh why do I love this picture? Everything about this shoot makes me roll my eyes. First of all, I’m breaking one of my cardinal rules! I HATE HATE HATE making portraits of people holding books, or whatever it is the writer decides the story is also about. So, I don’t do it. If [...]
Outtake: We Heart Our Customers
What a fox, huh? An outtake from my AARP Bulletin assignment in Ambler, PA yesterday. enjoy!
My Best “Runts” of 2010 pt. 2
The world is funny, isn’t it? Or at lest that how it seems to me. …but then again, I’m the guy who laughs too much during movies. This is the second installment of my Best Runts of 2010. The first is here. Can I first start by saying I can’t stand lifestyle images. You know what [...]
My Best “Runts” of 2010 pt. 1
I’ll admit it. I’m showing off too many “runts.” This is post 1 of 3. But they all kinda fit with each other — and are exemplary of what I like from photographs, in general. I’d love to describe the ties that bind these somewhat “off” images together, but it’s New Years Eve, and my
My best of 2010
Howard County Times girls soccer player of the year, Marriotts Ridge senior center midfielder Alex Price. This was a big year for me. …2010 is my last year as a newspaper staffer. In this post I’m showcasing the images that I think would easily be considered my “best” images from 2010. These are the images [...]
Tyler Silberberg, Golfer of the Year
Wilde Lake sophomore golfer Tyler Silberberg tied for 11th in the state and is the boys golfer of the year. He is photographed at Hobbits Glen Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Here‘s Brent Kennedy’s season wrap up. In case you’re curious, there are two more photos after the jump.
For the NYT’s: EXORCISM CONFERENCE
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill attends a Conference of Bishops addressing the increased demand for
A Prostitute tells all. …well, some.
A prostitute, who, for the sake of protecting her identity, will be referred to as “Kris” is photographed at PW’s Bar in Laurel Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Howard County Times writer Kellie Woodhouse wrote a really interesting story about Kris’s reality and life. check it out here.
What do you do with a sabotaged assignment?
Draw a mustache! Maia Krapcho, from Columbia, first learned baking at vo-tech school. While she has since moved on to a different career, she finds cake-baking to be a creative outlet. She is photographed in her home kitchen Monday, September 20, 2010. Here’s the Howard County Times’ Go! story. She makes crazy cakes — for [...]
For The NYT’s: Centreville, MD What You Get for … $300,000
Sally Borghardt’s renovated 1840′s Centreville, MD home is selling for $292,500. Check out the New York Times article and accompanying slideshow. My photos are in the middle. For this shoot I got assignment editor Becky Lebowitz’s approval to use a Nikkor 24mm PC-E — often referred to as a “tilt shift lens” because it does some [...]
Chris Coons for the New York Times
Chris Coons, Democratic candidate for Delaware’s Senate seat vacated by Vice President Joe Biden, poses for a portrait at the New Castle Library Thursday, October 7, 2010. First of all, can I get a round of applause for natural window light? This photo accompanies a truly engaging read from New York Times writer Frank Bruni. [...]
11-year-old weight lifter Pt. 2: lighting set up.
Let me first say that David Hobby is an SEO powerhouse! When he pimps me out my analytics look like a big mountain is stuck in the middle of a desert. So, after getting hit with well over 500 page views within an hour of @strobist ‘s tweet, a few reached out, asking for a post [...]
Eleven-year-old Weight Lifter
(photo by Matt Roth) Tyler Maizels, from Parkton, is a nationally ranked bronze medalist in his weight lifting age division. The eleven-year-old is photographed at his family’s home gym Thursday, August 12, 2010. He and his mother Patty Maizels competed in the Maryland State Championships August 16-17 in Frederick, MD. You can read the North [...]
Fencing for Howard Magazine
(photo by Matt Roth) Laurel resident Gabrielle Galvez, with Baltimore Fencing Center of Columbia, won a bronze in the Division 3 Woman’s Epee at the US Fencing Association’s Summer National Championships in Atlanta, GA. Galvez is photographed at BFC Friday, August 20, 2010. This was a really cool shoot for Howard Magazine. It was a [...]
For the NYT’s: Mama Grizzly, Jr. vs. The Establishment
Volunteers for Delaware Senate Republican primary candidate Christine O’Donnell meet during a rally at Brecknock Park in Camden, DE Sunday, September 5, 2010. Over the weekend I photographed what’s becoming an important Republican Senate primary race in Delaware for The New York Times. On the one hand we have
For the NYT’s: A New Baltimore Arts District?
Buck Jabaily, director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance stands outside the Single Carrot Theater, which he helped co-found 10 years ago. The small performing arts theater is located in Baltimore’s first arts district, Station North, which was also set up ten years ago. I worked on a story for the New York Times a [...]
Sports Up Part 4! …and a little bit about the “other” image.
For last year’s Manchester Valley football preview photo illustration the football player scheduled to ride the horse in full football regalia wasn’t too used to horse riding. So… he had a stunt double fill in. I was sworn to secrecy. I wasn’t allowed to tell who the actual rider is. So… let your imaginations go [...]