My lecture at the MSU Arts and Humanities Dept.

I recently was honored to participate in the Wednesday Night Live lecture series at the Residential College of the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University.   I spoke on two topics: Living as a Creative and the Power of the Still Image. In preparing for the talk I stumbled upon the roots of my becoming a photographer.  …

Detroit’s Palmer Park: Where ghosts of past and present collide

Sven Gustafason and I did a story for HOUR Magazine on one of the largest and most historical public parks in Detroit and its current iteration and  rebirth.  Here is a post with more photos and an updated and more in-depth version of  Sven’s story. Sven Gustafason To me, there might be no better microcosm for the Detroit experience…

Blood and Guts at the Black Flag show in Brooklyn.

I started working with the newly launched  New York Magazine blog Bedford and Bowery, a localized blog covering the Lower East Side, the East Village, Williamsburg, Bushwick and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.  The show was epic.  One of the hardest concerts I have ever photographed as there was a pretty raucous mosh pit, my leg was in a…

Manure in Midtown

The PBR professional bull-riding rodeo is back gracing our shores here in NYC.   I shot it a few years back for the Huffington Post but never got it up here on MPT so here is a link to the full photo-story.  I’ve posted a couple images below along with the text which I penned (something I…

New piece in current HOUR magazine on Zug Island, Detroit.

GOTHAM OF THE RUST BELT: Blast furnaces, belching smoke, and industry byproducts from ironmaking and steelmaking are hardly anyone’s idea of beauty. But from a distance at night, an eerily illuminated Zug Island assumesan otherwordly, noir-like allure. HOUR magazine hired me to do a series on the steel production facility of Zug Island.  This eerie,…

Images in current Edible Manhattan magazine

I shot a story on a family breaking their Ramadan fast last year in the Lower East Side and it is in the current Edible Manhattan magazine.  Here is the layout.

Fashion piece for upscale Peruvian cultural magazine.

Did a fashion shoot for a local magazine here on Saturday.   The 22 year old Argentinian art director had a good vision using this collection of Peruvian couture and we did some really cool stuff.