Thought I would share a new personal project of mine. I found it interesting that most of these men look at their reenacting not as a hobby, but as a lifestyle. This could be the beginning of a bigger project about re-enactors, but for now it’s this… Hope you enjoy!
You can check them at my website as well.
I recently had the opportunity to photograph Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski from the popular morning talk show on MSNBC, “Morning Joe”. It was probably one of my favorites shoots to date. The Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles commissioned me for assignment – It was for their “Most Powerful People in Media” issue. Not only were Joe and Mika easy going, but they were also up for all of my ideas. Not to mention, shooting them on a private terrace at 30 Rock was a pretty incredible experience in itself. I’m pretty happy with the way the photographs turned out, would love to hear what you all think. Enjoy!
I recently had the opportunity to photograph, Eric Kandel, a nobel prize winner in physiology and medicine. We had a very limited amount of time, but I’m happy with the way these turned out – Keeping it simple…
Yesterday I got to photograph one of my favorite DJs in New York City, Ben Brock. Turns out as I got to know him a little better, he’s a lot more than just a DJ. Nonetheless he will always be “Ben the DJ” to me. I couldn’t resist the mechanical horse! These are my 4 favorites – Would love to hear which one is your favorite…
Very happy and honored to be in the newest issue of Fast Company – The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. I got to photograph landscape architect, James Corner. James is most famous for being the architect behind one of New York City’s newest park, The Highline. The Highline, an elevated park, is unique because it was built on top of a former freight rail line. It also happens to be just a block over from where I live. My wife and I enjoyed the Highline all summer long, so when I got this assignment I was super pumped to meet the designer behind it. It was also a privilege to be in an issue accompanied with some many great photographers – some of my favorites including Jake Stangel and Jeff Minton. Big thanks to photo editor, Leslie Dela Vega, for trusting me and giving me a shot. I’ve only been living in NYC for a year now – I’ve been feeling blessed lately at how this whole move from Alabama is turning out. It was a great feeling yesterday walking down to the corner store and picking up this issue. I hope there are many more exciting assignments to come. Check out the images below… Enjoy!
Also, make sure to check out this video about James and his projects – pretty amazing!
Wow. I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve updated everybody on new work, etc. It’s been a very crazy year already for my wife and I. We just returned to NYC after lots of traveling and shooting. It will be a month or two before I can start showing most of it – so definitely stay tuned to the blog.
I have some work that I want to show today, but before I do that, I wanted to share a quick word of advice. If there’s one thing that’s really paid off lately it’s been making personal work and getting out there and showing your work. I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes I get wrapped up in the business of photography and only concentrating on the jobs that have a paycheck attached to them, but I’m typically always thinking in the back of my head about shooting for myself – Whether it’s an actual series or just a simple portrait I want to make of someone. My wife and I recently started photographing people of the Alabama Blackbelt. We just wanted to go on long drives through the country and photograph the people we encountered. It’s still a continuing project, but I thought I would share some images. You can view the gallery here. The project was an effort to lighten up my work a little bit. Sometimes I tend to be very dark in my photography which is fine, but I am working on showing some range, while still staying within my style and taste.
Now to showing your work – This is really my main point that I would like to touch on. Photographers – start showing your work now. There’s really no excuse and there will never be a better time. A few years ago, when I was 19 or 20, I made a big effort to start showing my work to people. I had no idea what I was doing and my images weren’t that great. But that was not the point for me… the point was to meet the people that could potentially hire me and start a relationship with them. A few years down the road I started getting hired, and now I can call most of those people clients and friends. I truly believe that when you make something you need to put it out there and let people see it. Just like the Blackbelt – It’s still an unfinished project, but it’s up on my website – People are seeing it and reacting. Don’t hold back on showing your work.
Enough of the talk, here’s some new work.
Marco Tempest, the virtual magician, for Wired.
The owners of Eataly NYC
Personal Work
Print ads for Children’s Hospital / Agency: Scout Brand
I was recently commissioned to shoot Panos Ipeirotis for Bloomberg Business Week. To put it simply, Panos is an expert at crowd sourcing. He also started a company, Tagasauris, which recently helped Magnum Photos tag there hundreds of thousand of images in their digital archive. Check out the article here. These are a few out takes below that I particularly like. Enjoy!
A few months ago I was hired by the awesome people at Lewis Communications to photograph the new print campaign for Alagasco. Alagasco is Alabama’s natural gas company. The shoot was one that I will not forget. Everything seemed to go perfect. Everybody did not just do their job, but every task was executed beautifully. I feel like our team really worked hard on this one. Props to Art Director, Ryan Gernenz and the rest of the Lewis crew, for coming up with the great creative. It makes advertising 10x more fun when you have a great art director to work with – that’s when you know it’s going to be a portfolio piece. This is somewhat of a departure from what I usually photograph. I’m not known to photograph very light/open photographs, but it’s always fun to show range – even if it’s a baby! I think it’s important as a photographer to always keep a unique and consistent vision/style, but it usually feels good to be hired to photograph something different. I also threw in a couple of BTS photos. Thanks again to the people at Lewis. Enjoy!
Big thanks to my great team:
My wife/manager – Jana Mobley
Producer – Duquette Johnston
Stylist – Morgan Johnston
Makeup – Chaney Boatright
Grip – Seth Newell / Sean Kirby
If there was a king of pop-up books and paper engineering, it would be Robert Sabuda. I photographed Robert about a month ago in his New York City studio for The Wall Street Journal. He has become widely popular since he started designing mostly pop-up books for children. He even has his own line of pop-up cards that can be bought at The Museum of Modern Art… pretty impressive. Anyway, it was a great shoot, and I can’t get over all of the people that I’ve met this year. So many of them have been extremely interesting people that I would not have the opportunity to interact with if it weren’t for photography. Another reason to love what I do. Thanks and enjoy!
Thought I would share a few personal portraits I recently shot for my wife’s blog, ALA>NYC. The subject is our friend, Sam Masters, who happens to be my old college roommate. You can head over to my wife’s blog to read his interview. Lately, I keep reminding myself to always be shooting personal work, it’s probably some of the best advice I can give as a photographer. Would love to hear which one is your favorite… Enjoy!
