Editorial
Womens Health Magazine: Weight Loss Success Story
Over the summer I photographed a Weight Loss Success Story for Women’s Health Magazine in Tucson, Arizona. The article was recently published in the November edition of the magazine.
I wanted to show a sample of shots from the assignment that show a health/fitness feel to my portrait work, slightly different than some of the work that is currently on my site. Below are a few photos from the shoot and the article from the magazine.
Weight Loss Success Story, Slim-Down Strategies - At age 12, Loida Fraijo moved with her family from Hermosillo, Mexico, to Tucson, where she discovered fast food. “I supersized everything,” she says. “My sister and I would each eat a foot-long sub and then split a third one.” By the time she was 19, Loida was carrying 173 pounds on her 5’7″ frame. She dabbled in crash diets while attending Pima Community College in Tucson, but she could never commit. “I’d get upset and start eating again,” says the 30-year-old aesthetic laser technician.
THE CHANGE - Although Loida was a size 14, she squeezed into the short skirts and tight tank tops her thin friends wore. “I didn’t feel comfortable or pretty,” she says. Then, at a party in the summer of 2000, she overheard a guy announce that the “chunky girl”—Loida—was leaving. “When I realized that’s how people saw me, I knew I had to change,” she says. “I wanted to transform my life more than I wanted a hamburger.”
THE LIFESTYLE - Loida replaced fast food with fresh spinach salads, grilled fish, and chicken, and treated herself twice a month to veggie-loaded pizza or bunless burgers with a side salad. Setting foot in her college gym the first time, Loida says, “I felt like an alien.” She had to stop and throw up after 15 minutes of walking on the indoor track, but she managed 25 more minutes after the nausea passed. “I knew if I left then, I’d never come back,” she says. In three months, she was power-walking four days a week. As the pounds gradually peeled off, she busted plateaus by adding strength training and Zumba, cycling, or kickboxing classes to her routine twice a week. After five years of small changes, in August 2005, she was down to 125 pounds.
THE REWARD - Now a size 4, Loida is thrilled to wear the cute clothes that felt too tight in college, and she has more confidence too. “I love bikinis—and I look good in them!” she says. “With my body in better shape, I finally feel at peace with myself.”
LOIDA’S TIPS - Think (and cook) ahead. “If I know the next day is going to be hectic, I’ll prepare healthy meals the night before so my diet stays on track.” Surprise yourself. “I switch up my routine every few months by hiking, running, or climbing the bleachers at a nearby school. That way, my muscles never get in a rut.” Auto-tune your workout. “I listen to up-tempo music at the gym. When you move to the beat, your workout is easier and flies by.”
Wired: Paul Davies, Putting Scientists on Mars
I photographed scientist and Arizona State University professor Paul Davies for Wired recently. Here are a couple of photos and an excerpt from the article.
Eminent physicist Paul Davies has a proposal for you: a one-way ticket to the Red Planet. As it’s typically conceived, a round-trip Mars mission would take about two years and cost at least $80 billion. But you could cut 80 percent of the expense, Davies says, by nixing the return and initiating a permanent Mars colony. The hard part, he says, isn’t subsisting in a hostile environment millions of miles from home but changing the Space Shuttle-era culture of timidity. That’s starting to happen, though: The NASA Ames Research Center teamed up with Darpa to put $1.1 million into a study of manned interstellar travel. Even so, no one’s going anywhere, Davies argues, unless we can bring the price down. To do that, the ticket has to be one-way.
Read the whole article online at Wired.com
People Magazine: Looking for absent royalty in Gila Bend
In late September an assignment for People Magazine took me to the small town of Gila Bend, Arizona. The premise was to photograph where Prince Harry would be staying during his visit for military training in October. Gila Bend is a small town in the desert off Highway 8 between Tucson and San Diego. It is home to a United States Air Force Base and is a regular training place for Allied Foreign troops.
Other than the Air Force Base there just isn’t a whole lot there. The town only has three restaurants, one bar and doesn’t even have a grocery store. It has several hotels including the somewhat well known Space Age Inn that carries a UFO theme throughout.
Most of my editorial work involves photographing people and places but rarely empty spaces. This project was about showing how different the area is than where Prince Harry comes from in England and capturing the personality of the town.
We spent the day on base and around town gathering photographs and some on camera interviews with the local people. Many of whom were very friendly but seemed unconcerned with a visiting celebrity who would be third in line as the king of England.
Wall Street Journal, Home Front: A New Addition
Here is some recently published work that I photographed for the Wall Street Journal’s Home Front section. I photographed husband-wife architect team Matthew and Maria Salenger at their Tempe, Arizona home and architectural studio.
The work was featured in the newspaper and an online gallery in September. Please view other work I have photographed for WSJ’s Home Front section here.
Wired Magazine: Liquid Gold, Inside the booming market for breast milk
In April I photographed an assignment for Wired Magazine about women who sell breast milk. The article is out in the June edition of the magazine, here is the art from the website and my work is below.
I photographed Desiree Espinoza and her daughter here in Arizona along with her supply of soon to be sold product. You can read the entire article on the Wired website here.
Texas Rangers Josh Hamilton for Christianity Today Magazine
In March, I photographed the Texas Rangers Josh Hamilton for Christianity Today Magazine. In the story Hamilton discusses his past battle with drug addiction. The feature is in June edition of the magazine out this week. Here is the opening spread…
Chicago White Sox Adam Dunn for Time Out Chicago
Back in February, I photographed the Chicago White Sox Adam Dunn for Time Out Chicago. The photo appeared as part of the spring baseball preview in TOC and is seen here below. I had previously worked with Time Out Chicago when I photographed Paul Konerko after the Sox World Series victory in 2005.
Wall Street Journal, Home Front: Logan Collection
I recently photographed the Museum/Home of noted art collectors Vicki and Kent Logan in North Scottsdale for The Wall Street Journal.
Here are a few photos that show their amazing art collection in Scottsdale that includes pieces by Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami. Read the entire article on the Wall Street Journal website to find out more about the collection and their home.
Luis Palau for Outreach Magazine
In November I spent time photographing Luis Palau and his son Kevin for a feature in Outreach Magazine. It appears below as it was published in the January/February edition…
Local Motors advertorials for TIme Magazine & Fortune Magazine
I have a couple different advertorials running this month in Time Magazine and Fortune Magazine for Local Motors featuring CEO Jay Rogers.
Local Motors helps create, develop, build and modify custom cars for individuals and has a mirco factory in Phoenix, Arizona where they build their Rally Fighter car (and where we shot these portraits). It’s a really unique and amazing business and you can find out more at their site Local Motors.
