back at the end of the spring i was set to shoot michael baroni, general counsel for palace entertainment, and his team at boomers, a family fun center in irvine, california. i know what you’re thinking. you’re thinking wait a minute, irvine isn’t any fun, and ordinarily i would agree with you. when i [...]

  before i met tom baldwin i didn’t even know there was such a thing as a chief knowledge officer. it sounds like the kind of title you get when you’re an executive at a high powered corporation/government entity in a sci-fi movie. apparently, though, this kind of thing happens a lot. so tom is the [...]

  raghu mendu is a general partner in ventureeast, a company which funds projects in india in the fields of technology, healthcare and bio sciences. raghu splits his time between india and rancho palos verdes, california, which is where i caught up with him. we met at first in a small outdoor shopping area, but [...]

all the volatility in the markets this week got me thinking of a recent shoot with pete adamson, personal investment manager for oprah winfrey. watching and worrying about the dips, dives and leaps of my very small amount of apple stock, i wondered if the same movements cause exponential angst when you’re managing billions, instead. [...]

dibromochloropropane (DBCP) is a chemical pesticide. manufactured by dow, it was used in the 1970s on crops grown in the US and abroad. DBCP was found to cause sterility in workers at the dow plant where it was manufactured. dole foods, one of the world’s biggest producers of fresh fruits and vegetables, stopped using DBCP [...]

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. [...]

in many photo shoots there exists a moment when it becomes possible to drastically shift the whole dynamic, tone and message of the picture. sometimes this shift happens in a decidedly weird or silly direction. then again, i’m a big believer in the idea that you can do very absurd things in photographs just so [...]

ruben is the CEO of propaganda global entertainment marketing. that means he’s responsible for you seeing in movies the things you desperately want but can’t afford (like a lamborghini, or robot cell phones). that means that ruben’s LA office is full of cool things that you desperately want but can’t have. like motorcycles, fake newspapers [...]

jeremy is the manager of new business development for best buy. this is a title that probably means a lot more to you if you’re not a photographer and you work for a real company. to me, it could mean nearly anything. three things i know, though: first, the inside of a best buy store [...]

the latest shot recession special: two CEOs in a row, now that these have both finally gone to press. jay flaherty is CEO of HCPI which, as far as i understand it, invests in real estate. you’d think that’d be a recipe for disaster right about now but jay didn’t seem too concerned. they build [...]