max s. gerber(the latest shot)

i’m perpetually grateful when i’m sent to photograph people who are vastly more accomplished and important than me, and those people turn out to be gracious, thoughtful, open and giving with their time. elizabeth farnsworth certainly was this and more: a journalist, a correspondent/anchor on the newshour, a documentary filmmaker and an expert on places [...]

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 [...]

this was a shoot for TIME i did last month. it was one of those things where they said, “well, it may run or it may not.” so far it has not. i don’t think the writer has written the piece yet, but thanks to alice gabriner and martha bardach, anyway, for allowing me to [...]

well it’s a super tuesday of activity over here at msgphoto.com. it’s been a while since i’ve posted, and that’s not because i’ve been neglectful, or not thinking of all of you. i’ve been hard at work redesigning the site. i’m no web designer, so it was a long road. there’s been a great deal [...]

a few more stragglers from shoots at the end of 2007. i was in san diego on two separate occasions, for different publications. i was there first to shoot the goodwins, whose home had been destroyed in the witch hill/san diego wildfires in october. their house was in a quiet residential neighborhood and it was [...]