Posts Tagged ‘community journalism’

USF NCAA Watch Party for the Tampa Bay Times

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My first freelance assignment for The Tampa Bay Times is the USF NCAA Watch Party.


For Education Week: The Effects of Poverty on Education

A student walks past a dilapidated building on Caroline Street in Baltimore, MD, Wednesday, February 29, 2012. The neighborhood, which has three government housing complexes, has two schools, the Baltimore Freedom Academy and City Springs Elementary/Middle School. While both are charter schools, the latter serves mostly neighborhood students. Ninety-six percent of City Springs' student body receives free lunches.

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

David Donaldson, Teach For America

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.


Education Week: Safety & Restorative Practices

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


Alex Price Soccer Player of the Year

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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 Howard Magazine: Best Cobbler

Best of Howard 2010: King's 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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


“Who Is That On Your ID?” …oh, & I quit my job, too.

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“That doesn’t look like you!” and “Who is that on your ID?” I get that a lot when people see the picture on my laniard. This image was made back in 2004 by fellow intern Deana Mitchell. I was having a hard time looking “normal” that day, so I decided to look “smarmy,” instead. Since [...]


For the NYT’s: A New Baltimore Arts District?

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.

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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 [...]


Long Overdue, Spring Preview

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CAPTION: Last year River Hill center fielder Christian Laidley batted .448, leading the Hawks with both 30 hits and 27 RBIs. He also made the game winning hit in last year’s 2A State Championship game. He is photographed in the River Hill Dance Studio Saturday, March 27, 2010. As some of you might’ve noticed, I prefer


Rappelling for Kidneys!

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The National Kidney Foundation of Maryland is using


The Strobist for The Howard County Times

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Sometimes photographing another photographer can be intimidating. …sometimes it can be annoying. But I felt neither emotion when I got to photograph David Hobby last week. It was


Jordan Maisel: Howard County Girls Tennis Player of the Year

Glenelg junior Jordan Maisel was undefeated throughout the year, clenching the county and Region V  


John Healey: Howard County Boys Tennis Player of the Year

Atholton graduating senior John Healey was


Kelli Pease: Arbutus Times Female Player of the Year

Left-handed lead off hitter for Lansdowne High School Kelli Pease maintained a .500 batting average during the season. The two-sport junior also played volleyball for the Vikings in the winter. She is photographed at her school’s softball field Friday, June 11, 2010. A little about how this photos was made, for all you nerdy types. [...]


Paige Hanson: Baltimore Messenger Girls Athlete of the Year

Bryn Mawr graduating senior Paige Hanson played top-level field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse for her school. She chose lacrosse as her collegiate sport of focus. Next year she will play for the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She is photographed at St. Paul’s School Thursday, June 10, 2010.


Andrew Barton: Towson Times Boys Athlete of the Year

St. Paul’s graduating senior Andrew Barton is the boys athlete of the year. He will be playing lacrosse for Providence next year. He is photographed at St. Paul’s School Thursday, June 10, 2010.


Robbie Creese: Howard County Boys Runner of the Year

Glenelg junior Robbie Creese set a


Becky Yep: Howard County Girls Runner of the Year

Mount Hebron long distance runner Becky Yep won


Kory Britton: Howard County Baseball Player of the Year

Atholton junior shortstop Kory Britton is the


Jim Marlatt: Howard County Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year

River Hill senior Jim Marlatt led the Hawks with more than 70 goals and well over


Joe Meurer: The Towson Times Lacrosse Player of the Year

McDonogh senior Joe Meurer is the Towson Times boys lacrosse player of the year. He is photographed at Boys’ Latin School Thursday, June 3, 2010.


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