max s. gerber(the latest shot)

tommy, a dear friend and an amazing talent, an endless well of energy, ideas and enthusiasm. tommy is never far from a positive spin on a situation, which would be a good lesson for me to notice (especially after knowing him for 17 years) if i were the kind of guy who assimilated those sorts [...]

today is the first birthday of olivia collins, youngest daughter of my good friend, dana, graphic designer and illustrator at large. happy birthday, olivia.

aimee bender’s new book, the particular sadness of lemon cake, was released this week and is already skyrocketing up the charts at amazon. i’ve known aimee for a few years now and feel quite honored to have one of my pictures used as the author photo in this new book. it’s very nice to see [...]

bill foreman, “san diego”, march 7th, 2010 from Max S. Gerber on Vimeo.
bill foreman writes some of the best songs you’ll ever hear. heartbreaking, complex, layered and soulful songs. i was lucky enough to get the chance to record one of them when he was in town a few months back, crashing on my couch [...]

lately most of the things i do that seem to work out do so in no small part because of the influence, assistance and efforts of paul. for nearly every picture i publish there’s a similar shot with paul in it, standing in place of the final subject. here are a collection of those, from [...]

if you’re a normal person seeking advice you ask a professional. a doctor or a lawyer or a business manager, perhaps. if you’re a photographer seeking advice you ask other photographers. this is under the assumption that other photographers might somehow be magically less clueless than yourself. we all like to live with our delusions. [...]

today, october 14th, is the birthday of my friend and artist-extraordinaire, marshall arisman. happy birthday, marshall!
everyone do yourself a favor and go look at marshall’s work here.

since you’re reading a photographer’s blog there’s a good chance you already know who jonathan saunders is. if you don’t, look here. jonathan is in town for a rare LA visit, crashing on my couch a couple nights. jonathan being in LA means shooting shotguns (well, at least for him and bennett, not for me. [...]

i was in san francisco a couple months back for amy mac’s wedding, and made sure to get there a couple days early to hang out. russ and i went to high school together, he’s the brains behind wangston’s law, and he’s always got a bead on the good eats in any place you can [...]

in about ten weeks i’ll be an uncle. that is, i’ll be an uncle officially. my brother is having a baby. it feels like i’ve been an uncle for a very long time. even though i don’t see my many honorary nieces and nephews very often these days, there’s a strange sort of closeness that [...]