Redlights and Redeyes

Assignment:  go on tour with realtor and reporter to homes left abandoned in North Port, FL. If anything had “oh-no” written all over it, that did.  I’ve been on the “tour-with-realtor” assignments a million times before, not getting into any house, struggling to make pictures at 65 mph.  However, the realtor, Shannon Moore, saved the [...]

At first glance the photo is history.  This is the moment in time that will forever be remembered. For what most of what America saw in print, the images were completely false.   By now, most have heard the photo of POTUS announcing that Osama bin Laden had been killed was a re-enactment.  Still shooters [...]

Wow. No other words can describe the imagery and devastation coming out of Japan right now following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami Friday.  Whenever anyone asked where I always wanted to go in the world if I had my choice, the answer has always been Japan.  I never got the chance to see it  - [...]

There’s a period of time I like to call Photo Purgatory. It’s the time between when an editor calls and you for an assignment and when you actually get to said assignment. That moment where you find out what it is versus how it was described in the few sentences is essentially Heaven/Hell.  This one [...]

So do you think this is photojournalism? If the answer is yes, then what we knew as photojournalism at it’s purest form is over and POYi just killed it.  Well, they didn’t kill it so much as just dig another knife deeper into the back of its decaying corpse.  It’s time to really address the [...]

I never looked forward to portraits as a staff newspaper photographer for a few reasons.  I always thought they were too rushed, boring, and unnecessary when a documentary photo was a possibility.  My former DOP would vouch for that.  I always reserved my energy for the portrait series (whatever that meant).  The white guy in [...]