Mielle and Sweetpea

My love for my kids looks like an open fire hydrant on a hot day. It feels like that, a huge surge straight out of my chest. I get that feeling when I see Mielle up on a horse so confident and focused. This is Mielle at her weekly riding lesson at Piedmont Stables. This…

Photographer As Subject

Andrew Gilbert wrote a profile about me and my work with musicians. In it he says wonderful things about my photography and shines some light on the creative and personal core of what I do. My clients, Scott Amendola and Sarah Wilson, chimed in as well. I am deeply honored and humbled. A link for…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 5

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/24997130/ w=550&h=310] I asked Kevin Thomson, a guitarist in the band Enablers, to improvise a piece of music based on one of Brett Amory’s paintings. Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 4

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25577433/ w=550&h=310] Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009 he hit his stride when his “Waiting” series caught attention with its depiction of ambiguous urban spaces, occupied by a lone character. In…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 3

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25701343/ w=550&h=310] Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009 he hit his stride when his “Waiting” series caught attention with its depiction of ambiguous urban spaces, occupied by a lone character. In…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 2

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25658084/ w=550&h=310] Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009 he hit his stride when his “Waiting” series caught attention with its depiction of ambiguous urban spaces, occupied by a lone character. In…

So To Speak – Brett Amory, Episode 1

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25568356/ w=550&h=310] Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009 he hit his stride when his “Waiting” series caught attention with its depiction of ambiguous urban spaces, occupied by a lone character. In…

Mr. Franco’s Art Factory

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/24451084 w=600&h=340] James Franco came to the The Thing Quarterly to work on Issue 14.   He spent 5 hours writing in lipstick on each issue.  In addition to the usual still photography coverage I shot some video. They were really happy with my edit and want to make one for each issue they put…

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