Life in Appalachia is a body of work I photographed for the most grueling and demanding class I experienced in grad school. During the course of that quarter I experienced some of my brightest and darkest patches as a photographer. Shooting the same essay topic with all of your classmates can be hell esp. when [...]
I spent a portion of tonight looking through some old images from a coal essay I worked on in grad school for an Appalachia gallery I’m hoping to throw up on my website. Around that time I wrote this in my journal: Will I ever be good enough? The idea often haunts me. Do I [...]
In the latest issue of PDN there’s an article about Dan Habib and his Including Samuel project. On completing the project Dan states: The best way to succeed professionally is to surround yourself with talented people. Dan summed up in one sentence what I was trying to explain in my 5000 word post yesterday about [...]
Mindy McAdams had a post this morning that as a grad student I thought is worth sharing. She writes about a topic I’ve been living for the past two years of my life; grad school. She makes some valid points and others that I don’t agree with. Mindy writes Journalism is not rocket science. You [...]
My girlfriend, Jenn, posted her stunning magazine project that deals with mental illness in prison. Jenn’s work is one of the strongest multimedia pieces I’ve seen in recent memory. From the featured project to the raw inmate interviews the pieces will leave you feeling for these men. Of the project Jenn wrote on her blog: [...]
My magazine project is complete. (This is when I’m told it’s safe to breathe again.) One main multimedia piece. One photo gallery. One embedded map. One time-lapse. One website. All in the blur of one quarter. It was the class of ones for me. One step at a time, I wore the many hats that [...]
Since returning from Arizona I’ve lost what little tan I had, narrowed a boatload of images down to a “tighter” edit of 60, designed a mock layout to only trash it for a WordPress theme, ingested a lot of bad video and pushed off editing audio and video until tonight. As I type this my [...]
Monday was our first day of class since returning from our 10-day shoots, which meant it was story time. Everyone returned OK minus Megan who came down with a bad case of the flu. No equipment was lost or stolen. Whew. The class was a chance to hear how everyone dealt with the many things [...]
I woke up earlier than my body would have liked to do a time-lapse of Quartzsite and capture a few scene setters. The light was in its usual AZ glory, which made getting up a lot easier. Was delighted to have the flag to use as a foreground element. Buck here was a pretty good [...]
Spent another day in Quartzsite working on my shoot for magazine class. The warmth of the people here continues to amaze me. Today turned out to be a 12 hour day. The population here might primarily be over 65, but they have no problem staying active. In fact, I feel like the old one here. [...]