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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]