September 25th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
I Love Texas Photo just posted an interview that I did with them a few weeks ago. In it I get to speak about my personal work, career trajectory, and recent feature for The Nature Conservancy on the Edwards Aquifer.
I Love Texas Photo features work from Texas-based photographers and was created by Jasmine Defore who previously worked at Redux. Sarah Lim conducted the interview. Thanks to both of them.
September 5th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Wolf Island, a barrier island along the coast of Georgia at the mout of the Altamaha River
I story I worked on in the spring about the Altamaha River in Georgia was recently published by The Nature Conservancy. The deadline was tighter with this story than with Water Works and a recent drought in Georgia meant the water levels were against us, but I was still came away with some strong images. The Altamaha River delta was extremely visual from the air. I was really honored to work on a story celebrating wildness in my home state.
Long leaf pine cone in Moody Forest
August 8th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Design Observer is publishing a 5 part series this month on the evolution of landscape photography. It is an overview of different thoughts on where image making and our ideas about landscape intersect.
Landscape Photography: New Visions (at Design Observer/Places)
July 20th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
I got a hold of the latest Nature Conservancy magazine (Issue 2 / 2012) to take a look at the layout of our feature story on the Edwards Aquifer. Everyone worked real hard throughout the project and it was really enjoyable to collaborate with the design team on the layout. I’m very humbled (and pleased) that the images were given such space and weight in the magazine. I did my best produce images that would work in that way and I think it turned out great.
The piece is 16 pages (w/ 5 spreads of just images) and a cover. I’ve included some clips here.
The rest of the online piece can be found here.
June 24th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Costa del Mar / Texas Monthly present Jungle Fish
Jungle Fish DVD
The DVD is now on sale through Costa’s website for $15. Get it here.
May 31st, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Medina Lake, Texas / 01.31.2012
Earlier in the year, I had a fantastic assignment from The Nature Conservancy to create photographs for a story on the Edwards Aquifer in Central Texas. Not only was this a relevant land-based story in Texas during a time of critical drought, but the photo editor, Melissa Ryan, came to me interested in a more artistic interpretation of the subject.
With the welcomed creative freedom comes the responsibility of producing something unique with finite resources. Exploring the relationship between landscape and culture is central to my personal research and I was thrilled at the opportunity to utilize that way of seeing for a client. On my end, that involves quite a bit of exploring and looking for subtle moments in the interaction between people and place that speak of our larger condition.
The story was shot on film with a Hasselblad and a single 80mm lens. The square format is atypical for magazine work, but gave the images the sense of a formal documentation that we were looking for. The design team did a great job of maintaining the strength of the images through a consistent pacing in the layout. Exploration and constant refinement to the point of exhaustion are certainly a part of my process with personal work and I am very grateful that the rest of the team worked so hard to create something beyond a typical editorial assignment.
Read the article HERE.
View a gallery of images HERE.
See a video about the process HERE.
May 16th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Costa del Mar has launched a ‘Protect‘ branch of their site promoting the eco-tourism/conservation project I’ve been helping with the past two years – shooting video twice last year for a documentary film on the project directed by Louisianna Kreutz titled “Jungle Fish“. See the trailer HERE. The film can be purchased online through their store.
I went down to Guyana again this year to shoot still images, which I also did on the previous trips. Still images are embedded throughout the site, and there is a gallery HERE.
November 30th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
I’m back from another trip to Guyana and have plenty of catching up to do, but am incredibly flattered to receive an Emmy nomination for my contribution to a NPR/ProPublica piece on traumatic brain injuries in the military. The piece can be found here. The story was in the later stages when I was called in and so my contribution owes a lot to the investigative reporting from Daniel Zwerdling and T. Christian Miller at ProPublica, John Poole’s video interview at NPR and photo editor, Coburn Dukehart’s ability to weave it together into a well crafted multi-media story.
But of course, none of that work compares to Victor Medina and the other servicemen and women who have had to deal with TBI and have had the courage to try and change military practices for the better.
August 9th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
portraits of Sam Salwei, Paul Cassedy, and Jason Magness from the 2XtM expedition
I spoke at the first annual PDN Outdoor Photo Expo in Salt Lake City this past week. I was on a panel with Mark Fisher, Trevor Clark, and Yassine Ouhilal all skillfully moderated by PDN’s photo editor, Amber Terranova. We spoke on “Marketing and Business Strategies for the Emerging Outdoor Photographer”. The panel was well received – a big hats off to Amber for wrangling the for of us together and her preparation of the panel.
July 29th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
pulling away from Hatch Workshop after final preparations
It’s been a long hot summer, although the more when you don’t use A/C and are working on a metal box in the middle of the day. But the good news is the trailer is ready for the road and we’ll be heading out West after PDN’s Outdoor Photo Expo and the Outdoor Retailer trade show at the beginning of August. A record hot summer in Texas should make the mountains all the more enjoyable. I hope they get rain while I’m away – though the extended forecast looks grim.