Humanity
Haiti. Day 5.
Continued from Day 1, 2, 3 & 4. Day 5 At around 3:30 AM Ben woke me up from my spot in the back of the truck. Incredibly groggy, but only a little stiff, I climbed out, pulled on my shell to warm up, and followed him into the main compound of Villa Creole. Ben [...]
Tend the Land
Meet Angi Welsch. (And meet Levi, and the rest of a mixed family of 16). I wrote a lot of stuff that I decided was bollocks. Just enjoy this tiny preview of what really needs to be seen in person. At the very bottom of this post is the piece that I traded with her [...]
Haiti. Day 3.
I apologize for the delay in getting day 3 up here. It’s both time consuming and personally exhausting to write these. Continued from Day 1 & Day 2. Day 3. At approximately 5 o’clock in the morning I heard the panicked and urgent voice of Doug. He had ripped open the zipper of the tent [...]
LiNK up for $250,000
Back in October I had the honor of traveling with my friends from LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) over to China to document the work they’re doing over there. You can check out my images/stories from that trip here. Well LiNK has some great news– they’re in the running for $250,000 from Pepsi. It’s exciting [...]
The Pearl of the West Indies: Images from the recent earthquake in Haiti
I’ve finally finished my photos and slideshow from my trip to Haiti, thanks to “Soundslides,” which is a powerful program for documentary photographers who want to share their work with the world. Click on the link below which will take you to the slideshow and then you can watch it full screen, toggle the sound, [...]
The Pearl of the West Indies
I’ve been working hard to try and get all of my images/stories from Haiti ready… but I’m having some difficulties with my slideshow/website and need to spend a little time to get it right. However, I did want to get something up in the mean time so I can start sharing these stories and experiences [...]
Haiti/D.R.
As things stand I’m taking off on a flight for Santo Domingo, DR tomorrow morning. From there I’ll attach with an NGO to head over to Haiti to help in any way I can. If anyone wants to donate funds towards medical materials and transportation, you can shoot me an e-mail here. Additionally if anyone [...]
My 2009 China trip with LiNK
In the midst of an unexpectedly crazy-hectic fall, I never had the chance to finish doing post-production and sorting my images from my trip to China. I went to Northern China in October with my good friends over at LiNK to document their work over there. It was a truly stretching experience both as a [...]
Nikon Festival top 50
While I was in Brazil for Ira & Andrea’s wedding I had a couple extra days on my own at the end. I spent a good chunk of that time staying out of the rain and editing footage from the wedding, but I also took about 24 hours to put together a 140-second short film [...]
We need your help…
I’ve been working on a side project for the last 6 months that is now finally (beginning) to come to fruition. After 1 photo shoot and a very brief video shoot, I’m moving forward with an international “blogumentary” project entitled “Shake The Dust.” The documentary, which will ideally be shared in the form of videos, [...]
Top 50 of 1,993. Now I need your help.
Well for those of you who didn’t know this, I applied for a job in Sonoma county at a winery called Murphy-Goode. The job description is simple: “We want to hire a social media whiz (your title will be “Murphy-Goode Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent”) who will report on the cool lifestyle of Sonoma County Wine [...]
More dust all over the place…
I’m doing some more work on the photo shoot from yesterday. It’s slow going because I’ve been en route to Atlanta from L.A. today. Here are a few of my runners-up for favorites. The top favs still to come… This shoot is in preparation for a big project that I’m working on. More to come [...]
Under the circumstances…
This has been a very crazy couple of weeks for me. A good friend of mine from home passed away this past week. It was a jarring and unexpected turn of events and my career and life in New York– and everything under that umbrella including this blog– kind of went on hold. But it [...]
The Places We Live
Thanks to Ira for the heads up on this one. So wonderful! Check it out here: http://www.theplaceswelive.com/
Homeless project.
An ongoing project. Incidentally, my roommate has an image of a homeless man that is hanging in our apartment. It’s one of my favorites of his:
Matt, Des, & Burundi.
Burundi is country filled with a rich history that is, nonetheless, spotted with turmoil and unrest. Nearly 5 centuries old, the tiny country, surrounded by well-known news-worthy nations such as the DRC, Rwanda, and Tanzania, has seen its share of crises over the last hundreds of years. Not unlike many other African countries, Burundi’s story [...]
Londoners show solidarity with Palestinians
While I was in London, the siege on Gaza was just making headlines. On the day after 360 Palestinians were killed from Israeli retaliation, a group of people gathered at the Israeli Embassy in London to make a stand and demand that their voices be heard on the issue. I went over there with some [...]
Falling Whistles
I met a guy named Sean Carasso through a mutual friend last summer at a fund-raiser. The cause: the Congo. After spending some time in the Congo and witnessing the massive war there, Sean was moved to do something about it. Well Sean and I kept in touch every once in a while through Facebook, [...]
A dinner party to start things out. New York, NY.
I might be too bold (though I think I am not) to assert that it is around the dinner table that wars have begun and ended. That surely it must be paramount to the digression or progression of civilization as a whole that we sit in community and eat together. It is the dynamic combination [...]
Boxing. Istanbul, Turkey.
Yesterday, after exploring the city with Sylvester, we met up with his brother Bob and took a taksi over to the Fener Bahçe club (a national athletic club) and the club owner was nice enough to allow me to snap pictures of their boxing practice.
Day 3. Istanbul, Turkey.
Today was an incredibly eventful day. I don’t want to say too much about it yet because I have two stories coming that I just don’t have time to finish tonight (its 2 AM) but I’m pretty excited about them. I met some good friends (Bob and Sylvester) and had some fun adventures. AND filled [...]
Long Beach People.
I’m sitting on my parents couch in Edwardsburg, MI after a 42 hour train ride, 4 hour IKEA run, and 3 hour drive (through) snow. I’m too tired to do anything else, but I wanted to get this posted. I worked on this project my last week in Long Beach. It’s a sampling (but not [...]