It has been super long since my last post, but I was very fortunate to travel to Singapore to shoot a wedding in January. Ever since I got back I’ve been busy shooting or editing. Now I am finally going back into my past few months of work and pulling things out to share with [...]
I recently photographed Summit Medical Center registered nurse of 27 years, Alicia Torres, of Oakland.
Torres was the original nurse for Judith Ming, the oncology patient who recently died, but had been locked out on the day of Ming’s death due to the strike.
I didn’t have my mini-travel studio with me, but I wouldn’t have used [...]
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Posted 28 September 2011
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Tagged: alicia torres, California, death, garden, light, nurse, Oakland, outdoors, patient Judith Ming, portrait, sad, San Francisco Chronicle
Stanford University’s Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology Carol Dweck.
It’s been a while since I broke out my portable mini-studio consisting of a 2 Canon flashes, pocket wizards, manfrotto mini-light stands and calumet’s smallest umbrellas.
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Posted 27 September 2011
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Tagged: brain, brainology, California, carol dweck, light, palo alto, portable, portrait, San Francisco Chronicle, science, stanford, studio
This is part 3 of a 6-part series of my year in pictures. 2010 Part 1: DeKalb County. 2010 Part 2: Youth.
Portraits are the most nerve racking of my job. But when done well, it can have some of the biggest pay off.
Some posed, some natural, these images of faces unsettle me more than others. [...]
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Posted 02 January 2011
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Tagged: ballantine, best, buisness, circus, dekalb, evening, faces, fire, kevin, light, mental illness, mirror, portrait, reflection, reuters, scoutmaster, sunset, sycamore, valentine's day, watson, welding
Here is another update of work from the last two weeks. Well, two or three may be older than that, but I still want to share them.
This kid had the most amazing emotions during his reading/writing tutoring session in DeKalb, Ill. This was how he reacted when he correctly wrote the letter “G.”
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Posted 29 July 2010
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Tagged: baseball, basketball, ben bates, blood, buisness, coach, collison, dekalb, fortnight, portraits, sandwich, seniors, sycamore, update, wrestling
