For an assignment for The Wall Street Journal, we found ourselves at the Field of Dreams in rural Iowa. We both remember seeing the movie as kids so it was fun to experience it in person. If only we had packed a bat and glove to make the experience even better.
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We spent a beautiful evening with a Wisconsin family for a story about getting out of $123,000 in debt for the US News & World Report.
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Last fall we had one of those assignments that had us amazed by the power of the human spirit. Kateri and her husband James amazed us with their deep dedication to one another. James returned from serving in Iraq and has dealt with PTSD ever since. In the time we spent with the two and their kids it became rather apparent the passion and love Kateri feels for her husband in helping him deal with returning to his life here in the states. No easy task and we wish them all the best.
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We had a fun shoot late last year with Chuck Runyon the CEO of Anytime Fitness for Entrepreneur Magazine. Chuck was an awesome guy and very easy to work with, which in turn made the shoot a very enjoyable one as we talked about everything from working out to raising kids. All in all it was a fun day outside the office!
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Last year we missed the Crashed Ice event that happened in Saint Paul. After hearing all the buzz about it last year Jenn and I were planning to go as spectators to check it out it until we got a call from the New York Times to document it. We love when things work out like that. It’s very fitting that the only stop the event makes in the US happens to be in the State of Hockey.
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This past fall I found myself in the basketball crazy state of Kansas with a talented group of photographers, Brian Finke, David Eulitt, and Andrew Hetherington, for a fun team effort for ESPN The Magazine that had the four of us documenting the madness of the first open scrimmage of the year. It was a great time being a part of a group effort and ESPN The Magazine did their usual brilliant job of making the work shine in print.
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The Faribault Woolen Mill in rural Minnesota embodies the idea of taking pride in your work and craftsmanship. Everything they do still requires a human touch of some sort. We will never look at a Made in the USA logo in the same way again after spending a day at this factory.
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Recently I was commissioned by the German magazine Nido to work on a story about a 5 year old boy named Jalue who is a young lama that will be leaving his home here in Minnesota at age 10 to become a Buddhist monk.
Martina, the photo editor, wanted me to shoot the work in the same way I have shot all my personal work on my Hasselblad. It was incredible to spend a few days making pictures that spoke to me. It was also great to have an editor who wanted me to treat the whole assignment as if it was a personal body of work. The highlight beyond getting to hang out with a cool little guy for a couple days including his first day of kindergarten came when I saw that Nido gave the story a full 7 pages of play.
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A recent shoot for Wired Magazine brought us to one of our favorite museums, The Walker Art Center, to photograph Jim Hodges’ sculptural boulders. The majority of our commissions are people driven so this was a nice break from that and had us waking up much earlier than normal. It was a peaceful morning watching the sun rise over the Walker as we worked to capture the boulders from a variety of angles.
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This past September we found ourselves at The Mill, an incredibly cool industrial-arts shop here in Minneapolis that reminded us of an after-school program for adults that love to experiment and never stop learning. There we met Nathan, David and Cory who built a simulation submarine game. Their team built the sub during the 72-hour Red Bull Creation competition this past July. We had a great time photographing and filming the three and their awesome creation. Big thanks to all of them and especially to Nathan for being a good sport about getting soaked time and time again by his creation for the sake of a compelling portrait and video.
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