Published Photographs
TIme Magazine: Vocational Education
Last week I photographed an assignment in Northern Arizona and Phoenix for Time Magazine. The article is in this weeks edition spanning 4 pages (34-37). Nice to see a great layout featuring some of my favorites from the assignment.
Family Circle: Origami Owl
I recently photographed a feature for Family Circle Magazine on Moms who run successful family businesses. I photographed Crissy and Isabella Weems who own Origami Owl a Chandler, Arizona based business that sells custom-made lockets.
Below is the print version of the magazine that is out this month and you can read the entire article on the Family Circle website here.
Police Chief Jeri Williams for Pine Magazine
I recently photographed Oxnard, California Police Chief Jeri Williams for a feature for Pine Magazine. Pine is the Northern Arizona University Alumni magazine based in Flagstaff, Arizona.
From the magazine:
Oxnard Police Chief Jeri Williams, was the first person in her family to enter law enforcement. More than two decades later, she became the first African-American woman to head a police department in the history of Ventura County, Calif.
Fast Company: How G3Box Turns Shipping Containers Into Clinics
In February I photographed an assignment for Fast Company here in Arizona. The story is about Arizona State graduate students Gabrielle Palermo and Susanna Young and their efforts to convert shipping containers into mobile medical units for use in developing countries. The article is in the April edition of the magazine, here are a few setups that we did that didn’t make it into the print version.
Below is the print version of the magazine and you can see the article on the Fast Company site 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.
Arizona Department of Health Services 2011 campaign
In December 2010, I collaborated with Moses Anshell on the Arizona Department of Health Services 2011 advertising campaign. We spent 3 days photographing a number of different moms, kids and families to promote healthy eating.
Here are a few tearsheets from some of the materials produced for the campaign that have both english and spanish versions.
People Magazine | Heroes Among Us
Here is a tearsheet from an assignment that I shot for People Magazine in February. It’s a great story on David Talley and Brian Belanger here in Arizona. Hair/makeup/grooming by Laura Flagler.
Alice Cooper for Lufthansa Magazin
The October edition of Lufthansa Magazin features a shoot I did in June with Alice Cooper. The magazine is Lufthansa Airlines’ in-flight publication and features my work on the cover and a 12 page spread inside. It will be on all Lufthansa flights in Germany and the article coincides with Alice’s European tour this fall.
The concept for the story was to have Alice take us to all of his favorite places in Phoenix and show Arizona as a travel destination for European readers. The locations included The Arizona Biltmore, Cafe ZuZu, Old Town Scottsdale, Chase Field and of course Alice’s restaurant Cooper’stown.
More than meets the eye…
We started off at The Arizona Biltmore where Alice plays a round of golf almost daily. He was just finishing an early morning round of golf when we set off on our adventure. Next we went to Cafe ZuZu at the Hotel Valley Ho for a cup of coffee and a scone. We stopped at one of Alice’s favorite stores at Arizona Fashion Square that is one of the few places in the valley that sells European style jeans according to Alice. We then hit a couple stores in Old Town Scottsdale where they sell authentic Indian Jewelry. Alice’s mother used to own a jewelry store in downtown Scottsdale and he definitely knows how to find the authentic stuff from the imitations.
From Scottsdale we headed to downtown Phoenix and had lunch with Alice at his restaurant Cooper’stown. After lunch we walked down to Chase Field to get a few photos of Alice at the stadium. Unfortunately, we hadn’t arranged to get inside the stadium to take any photos. However, the Diamondbacks media people were very accommodating on such short notice. It was just hours before the Diamondbacks game and oddly enough we walked right in and were escorted down to the dugout and walked onto the field just before batting practice began. It would have taken days of phone calls to coordinate such efforts. So I found it very nice to have to be able to have a celebrity and local business owner allow us that type of access.
We ended up shooting a few portraits back at Cooper’stown to finish up a crazy day of following Alice around town. It’s nice to see the work in print and available to a large audience. Unfortunately I don’t have any trips to Germany planned during October so I won’t be able to see the article in person. I guess it’s just as well since the article is in German I wouldn’t be able to read it anyway.
Back to School with Family Circle Magazine
In the September edition of Family Circle Magazine is a 4 page Back to School article that I shot in May. I photographed Barbara Blalock who is the director of a program called Treasures 4 Teachers that assists educators with limited funds in purchasing supplies for educational purposes. Barbara started the not-for-profit program in 2003 working out of her home and they now operate out of a 10,000 square foot warehouse in Tempe, Arizona. The center accepts donations from companies and individuals.
Excerpt from the story by Sondra Forsyth:
Several days a week, Barbara Blalock pulls up to the 10,000-square-foot facility in Tempe, Arizona, that houses Treasures 4 Teachers, her not-for-profit center which assists educators who have big ideas but limited funds. Inside, aisles and aisles of shelves hold bins of brightly colored buttons and beads, stacks of stickers and scrapbooking supplies, and an ever-changing assortment of paper, pencils and three-ring binders.
Barbara greets her crew and they all go to work preparing for the influx of teachers—50 to 100 a day—who arrve on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. For a nominal fee shoppers fill as many bags as they want with supplies. They also have access to a die-cut machine, a copier, a laminator and a library of how-to books. There’s even an ongoing series of free hands-on workshops packed with ideas for how to use the materials. “Our goal is for everyone to leave here with lots of suggestions to implement in their classrooms,” says Barbara.
These are goods and services the teachers wouldn’t have any other way. Barbara first became aware of the need in 2003, when she was the regional director of 13 preschools run by the YMCA. “We didn’t have a budget for even the basics,” she says. “Kids can’t learn to write and draw without pencils and crayons and paper. Teachers can’t be creative and effective without binders and scissors and staplers and paper clips.” Parents, she knew, could not be expected to fill the gap. “It’s beyond most people’s budget,” she says.
With a little research she realized that the problem was more widespread than she had thought. In Arizona over half of all K-8 students can’t afford lunch, let alone school supplies—typical of many areas. Across the country teachers are averaging $493 a year of their own money to make up the difference, with 7% of them shelling out around $1,000, according to a study by the National School Supply and Equipment Association.
If you want to read more, here is the link to full story on Family Circle website.
