max s. gerber(the latest shot)

what do you do if you’ve made millions in business, you find yourself retired and have been slowly watching someone you love ravaged by multiple sclerosis? well, if you’re cliff giese you look around, find someone working on a promising treatment and struggling to finance it, you step in, put your money where it can [...]

every once in a while i get an email or a letter from a random stranger that just floors me. i got an email like that yesterday, from a woman named tara who is the mother of a 7 year old boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. she was nice enough to give me permission [...]

noted medical journal the lancet reviewed the hearts book in their august 23rd issue. the article was written by priya shetty, who was quite kind in her review. thanks, priya. my thanks also to lancet editor joanna palmer for kind permission to post a PDF of the review on the site.
read the full review here.
(reprinted [...]

jeni was nice enough to call me up and let me know she was having her pacemaker replaced, and was even nicer to let me tag along once again, camera in hand, just like the old days. except this time in addition to her parents and brother, i joined jeni’s husband, nick and a couple [...]

i’m a photographer, and i’m from a secular jewish family. this means i love complaining. i love it, i was raised on it, and i excel at it. but every once in a while you meet someone that just shuts you up. the plain fact is that my life is pretty damn good and i [...]

yep, that’s me on TV. and that’s really charlie rose. it’s not even a photoshop trick. we were in the same room, with tv cameras and everything.
thanks to everyone who emailed me about the appearance, and most especially thanks to all the heart parents who took time to write. hearing your stories is always [...]

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a couple weekends ago i got to haul myself over to the philadelphia airport marriott to attend the Adult Congenital Heart Association’s 2008 conference. while there i got to sign books and take pictures of the conference attendees. signing books is a weird thing. i never know quite what [...]

there’s an article in the NY post today about the hearts book! coolest thing, though, is that it’s one of the most emailed articles of the day. you can see the article here - and thanks to dr. rock for the sweet publicity!
also, i got a terrific email last night from the mother of a [...]

okay. well, lots of updates to get to, but you’ll have to forgive me if my captions get a little messier than usual. about a week and a half ago i made the mistake of trying to clean up around here. in doing so i had a nasty encounter with a piece of my bathroom [...]