max s. gerber(the latest shot)

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 [...]

here we are, another july 2nd. that means today is the birthday of my good friend amy macwilliamson. i could go on and on about amy’s many talents and the depth of her photographic vision, and i probably have. for now, though, i will depart from my norm and favor brevity over endless rambling. suffice [...]

at the end of march i went to san francisco to be a speaker at the CASE editor’s conference. i hadn’t been to san francisco for a long while, except for a couple times where i’d have a shoot there, fly up to oakland in the morning, drive straight to the location, do the job, [...]

i met dana in the summer of 2001, at a party at peter gilstrap’s house. it was a fluke that i was even at this party, i really try to avoid parties as much as i can. when i do have to go to a party i generally stand in the corner and read the [...]

i met vic one day by accident. i was taking pictures at the research lab where she works, it was the summer, it was hot, and i was lugging my gear around by myself. she was standing outside smoking a cigarette. i had a long list of subjects i was supposed to shoot that week, [...]