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Higher Education Photography March 10, 2022

New Higher Education Marketing Images at the University of Pikeville

Returned to this longterm client in eastern Kentucky for two days of photography last fall. We creates portraits for alumni magazine profile stories. We also photographed health science program images in the new nursing facilities, along with portraits of students and student life outdoors for admissions materials. Click here to see more images from the…

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, Higher Education Photography, Uncategorized March 13, 2014

Recent Work: University of Tennessee-Knoxville Alumni Magazine

A couple of images from a recent feature story shoot for their alumni magazine. The story focused on Jarett Beaudoin, an alum, who studied abroad in West Africa and India. He now works in Philadelphia helping to resettle refugees.  

Alumni Magazine Photography, Higher Education Photography, Uncategorized February 7, 2014

New Work: Penn State University

Some recent published work for Penn State’s Ag Science magazine… A profile story on Mike Woods, an alum who’s returned to the classroom as a teacher.

Alumni Magazine Photography, Design, Higher Education Photography, Uncategorized January 3, 2013

Recent published photography – Oberlin College alumni magazine

Recently published higher education photography for Oberlin College

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, Higher Education Photography, Uncategorized August 14, 2012

And now for something completely different…

New work… Fashion images for Imperial College of London and their new alumni clothing line.

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.

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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