max s. gerber(the latest shot)

sometimes taking pictures of the boss at a big firm can be nerve wracking. most of the time you encounter very busy subjects who don’t have much patience for sitting in front of a camera and usually aren’t particularly good at it anyway. almost always you encounter a handful of people under the boss who [...]

i just received an email from my old college saying that the dorm i lived in as a freshman is about to be demolished and rebuilt elsewhere. it’s kind of funny to me that this notice would come on this particular day, july 2nd, because i have very clear memories of that dorm, mostly of [...]

late last night paul sent me a link to a story about the marines involved in the haditha massacre. it seems they have all been cleared, except for one.
as a bit of background, this is from the NPR website:

Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the leader of a Marine squad that killed 24 civilians in the Iraqi [...]

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 [...]

i live in pasadena, which is in the greater los angeles area. it just so happens, though, that the greater los angeles area is very, very big. it encompasses many different cities and neighborhoods, each with their own individual identities and personalities. it also happens that when people who don’t live in the greater los [...]

i got to meet up with van ditthavong last weekend, at the tail end of a cross country road trip he was taking. the trip served to deliver a car to van’s sister in irvine, and also to further a personal project of his to photograph fire hydrants in all 50 states. still, on a [...]

a few weeks ago dylan’s mother called me to say that everyone wanted to do an update to our mirror picture from 2001 that’s in the hearts book. it turns out dylan and his family were going to be visiting mario in camarillo on memorial day and we took that as a perfect opportunity to [...]

 
there are a lot of updates to get to but so far i’ve been patiently waiting on the press dates to pass before attending to them. in any event, here’s a little out-take to tide all three of you over. the three of you who are paying attention.
this is from late april, and is paul’s first [...]

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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 [...]