Gabriel Stiritz Got My Attention

One of my favorite things about having become somewhat accomplished as a photographer is that from time to time students will reach out to me for advice.  Its an awesome feeling to be able to offer advice and/or wisdom to the up and coming generation of shooters, especially when they are very eager to succeed. [...]

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Marlene Rounds, Five Years Fifty Photographers Later

This morning while on the train to work I was treated to a great facebook posting by a former assistant, now friend of mine Marlene Rounds.  Entitled “Five Years Fifty Photographers Later”, Marlene put up a gallery of 35 polaroids of herself in “the trenches”. Here are a couple of my favorites. One of the [...]

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Kira Shemano has Great Cards

A few weeks back while perusing laptops in the Apple store in San Francisco I bumped into old friend and fellow photographer Kira Shemano.  We had worked together at Ilan Rubin’s studio several years back and hadn’t been in contact since having no idea she was on the west coast.  Anyhow we got to talking about [...]

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David Field Needs Your Vote

A few months back I featured the work of  my friend and super talented fellow photographer/ SCAD alumn David Field.  Well David  just informed me that he is in a three photographer winner take all race sponsored by Hasselbald.  Over the next 3 months David will be competeing in photographic challenges and tweeting about his experience. [...]

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Resource Mag’s 10 Best 10 Winners Announced, my Friend Heather Johnson Among Them

The results of the Resource Magazine + Win Initiative 10 Best 10 contest of just been announced and am pleased to report that former assistant, now good friend and amazing photographer Heather Johnson has made the cut (that’s her profile pic above).  Heather was one of my very first assistants helping me transition to the [...]

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The Impeccable Work of David Field

© David Field Entry number two in my shout out series is all about David Field.  He was on my mind today having just saw he won a second place award in the International Photography Awards.  David and I met several years back at the Savannah College of Art & Design where he was finishing [...]

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And This Shout Out Goes to………. Greg Krauss

Today’s post is the first in what will hopefully be an ongoing series bringing attention to some of the work by friends, peers, assistants etc.  Greg Krauss and I met two years ago when he worked in my studio as an intern.  A recent graduate of SVA he left with a really incredible body of [...]

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