max s. gerber(the latest shot)

a few months back i had a shoot that took place at wally’s barbershop in alta dena, california. ricky, above, is wally’s son, and helps to manage the shop. he wasn’t supposed to be our subject. we were actually there to photograph a doctor. it was a story about community health outreach being done in [...]

ramping up to a new website design i’ve been spending some time this week searching through old archives for things i might’ve overlooked before. the other day i came across this out-take of flavor flav from 2004. originally shot for a short-lived and well-intentioned publication called “pink and the almighty”, at the time i had [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

ethan says you can’t get a good B&W conversion out of a digital camera. i disagree. this is an out-take from a recent corporate shoot, something that was never meant to be in black & white, but i couldn’t resist tinkering a bit. it’ll likely never see the light of day in this version, aside [...]