max s. gerber(the latest shot)

dimitrios biller was hired by toyota to oversee their strategy in dealing with rollover litigation in the southwest. he was hired to be the strong arm that wouldn’t back down. they had no idea how right they were. in the course of doing his job dimitrios found that toyota was lax in producing documents for [...]

the first thing a subject says when they show up for their photo session usually sets the tone for the rest of the shoot. sometimes you know it’s going to be bad right out of the gate. other times, when you expect the status quo, the subject surprises you. the very first thing out of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

in the summer of 1998, in a small town in ohio, a 5 year old girl was killed, stabbed in the throat. anthony harris was twelve years old at the time, one of very few african american kids in town. after a couple weeks of searching for the girl’s killer, police arrested anthony and interrogated [...]

i’ve been meaning to post these pics for a while now, but i’ve been struggling to figure out how to explain the story concisely. in the end, i think i gave up trying to explain it. there was (is?) an ongoing pension scandal in the city of san diego with city workers, but the story [...]