Posts Tagged ‘Baltimore’

The Rising Cost of Day Care for the New York Times

CARE

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 [...]


Scary Self Portraits, Part 2. The importance of mood.

The !El Mateo!

I recently realized that I when I listen to music I respond waaaayyy more to the mood a song creates than I do to its lyrics. I always hear how the vocals are sung and never hear what’s being said. Maybe that’s why I like metal? It didn’t take too long for me to understand [...]


Education Week: Safety & Restorative Practices

Circle Time

The Baltimore City charter school City Springs has implemented several structural practices such as single gender classrooms and the Restorative Practices pedagogy.


Messy Portraits of Kids Eating

Margot eating lunch

Making messy portraits of kids …or whoever!


What in the world is wrong with me?

Self Portrait

When practicing a new lighting set up turns juvenile!


Matt Wise, Fire Guy

Matthew Wise fire

 My friend Andrea Wise has a fire juggling brother. So, when I found out I


The El Mateo!

Self Portrait

The El Mateo! Luchador mask courtesy of the limited edition “Weird Sports” book by Sol Neelman.


City Sparrow Aprons by Kristen Rigney

City Sparrow

What better way to sell aprons than to set stuff on fire, right?


Jen Rynda …the new Matt Roth!

Jen Rynda

BOY! Doesn’t this post’s title sound cocky!? All that means is Jen Rynda replaced me at the Patuxent Publishing Company when I quit last December. And In case you’re curious, she’s doing a great job.  She’s also putting a fresh new face on the Athletes of the Year photos — which, I suppose if I [...]


Melissa Golden. …New Home Owner

Melissa Golden, New Home Owner

“I had to stop telling people I live in Ballston, because they think I’m saying ‘Boston.’ So I just say Arlington,” says the lovely and talented photographer Melissa Golden, who’s now a new home owner, the day before moving day Sunday, September 25, 2011. For this post I wanted to showcase what Melissa’s condo was going [...]


For AARP Bulletin: Iverson Mall Walkers

Newsmaker - Gloria Dock and Every Body Walk Week

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


Rickie Fowler for Red Bull Photofiles

Rickie Fowler Red Bull Capital Drive

PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Rickie Fowler made 18 pitching attempts for a blind hole-in-one stunt at the Red Bull Capital Drive in the Georgetown waterfront in Washington DC Saturday, June 11, 2011. Rickie Fowler ultimately pitched one ball, the one he hit in the above photo, in fact, into the hole positioned over [...]


Matt Fouse

Matt Fouse and his Chickens

Urban farmer (and my neighbor) Matt Fouse with his


The OTHER Matt Roth, the Photographer

The Other Matt Roth The Photographer

So, yeah… there’s another photographer named Matt Roth out there. Professionally, he goes by Matthew Aaron Roth, but to all his friends he’s Matt Roth. Luckily we shoot different subjects. I’m more of a portrait & editorial guy, and he’s an “adventure” photographer. Our only overlap is


Mychael Wright

Mychael Wright

Mychael Wright, a friend of mine, agreed to let me make a few lit portraits of him about a month ago. It was a few days after Hurricane Irene came through and his power was still out. So, I used a portable battery pack. Recently I’ve been trying to make as many


A Portrait For No Reason …whatsoever.

New Chair for $10

A few months ago I went outside to test a beat up old 24mm lens to see if those HUGE SCRATCHES on the front element would be visible if I took a picture, and that’s when I met Clarence – my neighbor — who I’ve never met before. He was walking down the sidewalk braggin’ to whoever [...]


The Collective: aLIVE! promo shoot

Sarah Anne Austin, Modern Dancer for The Collective

These are photos from a shoot held on the Bryn Mawr School campus in Baltimore, MD, Sunday, June 19, 2011 for The Collective’s “aLIVE” show at the Creative Alliance Fri Aug 26, 8pm. This shoot was a lotta fun and it went exactly how I like em’ to go… a little


Sara asks Stephanie to Prom: For Education Week

Graduation Counts: Community College

  Yes. Annapolis High School graduating senior Sara Dean, is asking another girl to prom. And no, neither are


Blue …and some red

Blue

Jess


For Education Week: Turn Around Schools

Garrison Middle, A "Turn Around School"

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 [...]


Neil Hamburger at the Ottobar

Neil Hamburger Headlining at the Ottobar

Neil Hamburger Last night (March 14, 2011) The Ottobar hosted a night of comedy, featuring Neil Hamburger, Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser, “Major Entertainer” Mike H, and comedy duo Dan and Alex. aaaaaand I went! — with my friend Monica. It was HILARIOUS! As I’m sure you’ve noticed… I brought my camera, too. When making pictures at [...]


A new Christmas Experience.

Christmas Day

For the last four years I’ve spent Christmas Day with my girlfriend Jess and her family. And it’s soooo weird to me. You see, I’m an only child. And I was raised by a single mom. …and, to an extent, my grandparents. For a while, my mom and I actually lived with grandparents and my [...]


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 [...]


Shawna, Brooks and their fat effin cat

Shawna Potter and Brooks Harlan

The following are photos of Shawna Potter, Brooks Harlan and their fat cat Chaos at Big Crunch Amp and Guitar Repair. There’s a common conception that photo shoots are either all work-generated or for the whims of vein people. And to those people I ask: WHAT ABOUT THE FUN OF IT? Some of the photos [...]


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