at some point yesterday, stuck in traffic driving home from visiting mario and ali, i realized that i’ve been photographing them off an on for ten years. that’s a whole decade. i tried to think of who else – aside from maybe my family – i had spent that many years photographing. there aren’t many [...]

back in september i got an email from sydney. sydney is 15 years old, a congenital heart patient, like me. unlike me, sydney had her first pacemaker implanted when she was only 15 hours old (i was eight (years)). she said, “I am saving money to buy your book because it is the most incredible [...]

the charming and incomparable maggie soladay has written about me for the december “editor’s choice” column on PDN’s photoserve website! thanks, maggie! see the article here.

last week kim and tashena visited me. tashena lives in san diego now, where she takes amazingly lovely, ethereal and poetic pictures. kim was visiting from tucson. kim is micah’s father. tashena is micah’s sister. it’s hard to believe it’s been almost ten years since the last time i saw micah, almost ten years since [...]

i just found out late last week that the story i shot for the american lawyer magazine earlier this year on anthony harris won the gold in the 2009 ozzie awards for “best use of photography” in a magazine under 100,000 circulation! my deepest thanks to maggie, joan and martin at ALM for taking a [...]

alex is the VP of business development at media temple, a web hosting company that deals with sites that large numbers of people actually visit. he’s also one of those rare subjects who actually went out of his way to make the photo session easier, more fluid, and more pleasant. this is a rare thing. [...]

steven pinker is a psychologist at harvard who specializes in the evolution of language. in an appearance on the colbert report he was asked to explain how the mind works in five words or less. his answer: brain cells fire in patterns. he is a charter member of the luxuriant and flowing hair club for [...]