Thanks Mr. DeCarava…

Roy DeCarava was an early inspiration for me. After my initial obsession with making the perfect black & white print(full scale-dark darks & white whites) I became dissatisfied with the stock way of doing things. His prints were beautiful – smokey, subtle, and mysterious. Find a copy of The Sweet Flypaper Of Life. Obit from…

Driving On.

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/6527841 w=560&h=315] I drive by this building often when I go home. This is my own personal 9/11 memorial. When I woke up that awful morning my wife Suzy was already in front of the tv and very pregnant with our daughter Mielle. I quickly discovered that being a father was going to change…

Really Really Really Smart

One of the fringe benefits of my job is meeting people I wouldn’t normally have the chance to in my everyday social circle. I photographed Joe DeRisi for VSA. VSA designs the HHMI Bulletin – a custom publication for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Joe DeRisis is a Molecular Biologist at UCSF. In 2004 he…

The Bobo Doll Experiment

I heard Dr. Albert Bandura on PRI’s The World last week. He is famous for his Social Learning Theory and the Bobo Doll experiment used to study behavior and observed aggression. I photographed him for Stanford Magazine. I find that the older I get, my interest in social psychology grows. I’m sure it has a…

TG in Japan

I did some publicity work for Tommy Guerrero. His next record is coming out in Japan in August. This portrait session went the way I like it – mellow. We kept ourselves from forcing anything. We just took it easy and let the portraits happen.

Still A Believer

The first time I saw PJ Harvey was in 1992 at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC.   This is when it was still a small club on F Street.  I was fresh out of art school and in awe of her music. At the time I thought what she was doing was high art.…

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