max s. gerber(the latest shot)

well, it’s monday. okay, monday night, but i thought this would be an opportune time for a handful of updates from previous weeks. three guys in suits. one of these days i’ll convince all my fellow photographers to set up www.guysinsuits.com and we can put all these pictures in one place. in any event, welcome [...]

every one of you probably has a friend who for years has been telling you stories about some friend of theirs, but you somehow never seem to meet this mysterious friend. well, tommy jordan has been telling me about his friend dave ralicke since i can remember. they were room-mates years ago at UCLA. and [...]

i was really happy to do this shoot. first because it wasn’t some dude in a suit in a conference room for a change, and second because sia had great window light in her bedroom and it’s always a really wonderful feeling to shoot without a ton of gear. also, the best part of my [...]

dan farino has a job title that should confer him a lot of internet street cred: “chief systems architect for myspace”. you couldn’t tell it from talking to the guy, who’s incredibly easy going, or from looking at his office. the guy in the cube next to him has five monitors. five. in contrast, bill [...]

gilberto cota is an IMG. that means international medical graduate. he went through med school in mexico and is now in a program through UCLA to work at a family clinic in santa monica while he takes the necessary tests/gets the necessary licenses to become an actual practicing doctor in the U.S. this is part [...]

last weekend i rode the LA subways for an afternoon. i rode from eastern pasadena (the gold line) to union station and then up to north hollywood (red line) and back. i’d never been on the subway in any city but new york before, so it was an interesting experience. the trains were (mostly) clean [...]

ah, why is it that it always seems like my favorite shot from any given shoot is the one that’s almost guaranteed never to get published? well, i guess that’s where the glorious internet comes in. thanks, internet.
ken berry is an awfully nice guy with a giant garage full of robots and robot parts. unfortunately [...]

this was an odd sort of press junket. well, all press junkets are kind of odd, unnatural affairs, but this one was particularly odd as nobody really seemed to know about it. the hotel didn’t seem to know about it, and the only other media person there was a writer for some film technology blog [...]

adrian tomine is a graphic novelist, but if you hear him talk about it he uses the word “cartoonist” instead. he was in town to promote his new book, shortcomings. adrian started publishing his comics when he was a teenager, and you can occasionally see his work in the new yorker, too. he was giving [...]

the advantage of photographing really smart people is, obviously, getting the chance to talk to really smart people. sometimes they say really smart things that i sometimes even remember, and can add to my internal catalogue of Smart Things I Know for use at parties (if i happen to be unfortunate enough to have to [...]