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Alumni Magazine Photography, Design, Editorial Portrait, Higher Education Photography February 19, 2016

New Editorial Work: Franklin and Marshall Alumni Magazine Photography

Teamed up with Pittsburgh based Landesburg Design on photography for the redesign of the Franklin and Marshall College alumni magazine. Here’s a few tear sheets from the project…

Advancement, Editorial Portrait, Higher Education Photography, Uncategorized March 14, 2014

New Work: Penn State University

Some recent work for the Penn State School of Agriculture Magazine. I followed university interns documenting their work at the PA Farm Show for a day in thelife feature story… as with all interns, they shoveled a lot of poo (real, not metaphorical).  I left those photos out of the edit. I did get to…

Alumni Magazine Photography, Awards, Editorial Portrait, Featured, Uncategorized September 10, 2012

UCDA 2012 Design Competition Awards!!!

Alumni magazine photography for Oberlin College. The project won an Award of Excellence for the spring 2012 issue which I photographed the cover story.

Alumni Magazine Photography, Editorial Portrait, Featured, Higher Education Photography, Uncategorized August 1, 2012

And then I dressed him up as a bug…

Last week took me to State College, Pa., to photograph researcher Dr. Joe Louis at Penn State University. The University of North Texas, where Dr. Louis earned a masters degree in entomology, needed a portrait for a profile story in an upcoming issue of its alumni magazine. I dressed him up as a bug.

Editorial Portrait, Personal Work, Uncategorized July 17, 2012

Chris Buck and the Suprising Portrait

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a week long workshop in Santa Fe taught by editorial celebrity portrait photographer Chris Buck.  His work is seen in Wired, The New Yorker, GQ, and Esquire, among other places.  Chris has this amazing ability to work with people who are guarded and conscious of their image. He’s…

Alumni Magazine Photography, Editorial Portrait, Higher Education Photography, Uncategorized December 8, 2011

Working with what you got

A conference room might possibly be the worst location ever for a portrait shoot. It’s often a drab and dismal place with no storytelling elements, no context, and you’re fighting the bright florescent lights overhead. But sometimes you have to work with what you got. I was again faced with this situation during a day…

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