The past couple years have been a whirlwind of new beginnings in my life. I got married, moved to California and have been in the process of forging a career in the film industry. All the while, photography has been by my side, teaching me more and more about who I am every time I [...]
Recently a lot of people were talking about how the famed photo agency Magnum sold their back catalog for a million bucks. To shed a little light on the exact story behind the sale John Bailey has a great article laying it all out in detail. A must read.
Yesterday marked day two of my ramen chef project. I went mainly to show Murakami the photos I had taken the previous time and maybe eat a little something. When I arrived he was not around. Not too surprising since on the first day of shooting he was a couple hours late meeting me. I [...]
This week marked a big step in my work as a photographer. I began my first photo essay. The planning was a few months in the making but I was able to get a good day of shooting in on Thursday. The story I am documenting centers around a ramen chef named Murakami. He owns [...]
Haiti has been at the top of the news now for almost two weeks. Yesterday’s Hope-fest was the icing on the cake. As we sit back and soak up images and words about the struggles that Haitian people are endurring, it’s difficult for us to make sense of it all. Anyone that has scratched the [...]
The world has it’s eye on Haiti. What happened in Port-Au-Prince and the surrounding cities has left untold amounts of people homeless, injured, hungry or, worst of all, dead . The latest report is saying the death toll could be up to nearly 200,000. It’s a disaster of unbelievable proportions. Some of the worlds best journalists and [...]
A friend produced this great piece for Aljazeera English called Gaza’a War of Words. It focuses on the turmoil that erupted last year in Gaza during the gap in American Presidential power. Another great article by Johann Hari about how our culture of overwork is an outdated routine. It seems that the state of Utah has figured [...]
I’ve been having trouble with the archiving on here and am trying to sort things out. Actually thinking of moving everything over to a WordPress blog if I can’t get it fixed…
Honestly, I love everything about Lady Gaga, except her music. But the news that she will become Polaroid’s new “creative director and inventor of specialty products,” just seals the deal. Polaroid stopped making their instant film last year, much to the upset of many photographers. While there are still stock rooms filled with the stuff [...]
The week before Christmas a man named Warren “Gator” Taylor took three hostages in a Wytheville, VA Post Office. Taylor said that his “growing anger at the federal government for a variety of reasons,” led him to the Post Office to “end it all.” The standoff was short lived. What I found the most interesting [...]
