I got involved to busy my hands. The project filled my heart. In the early days of COVID-19 lockdowns, two photographers in Boston began photographing families sheltering in place on their front steps. Instead of payment, participating families donated to a local organization that was helping mitigate the crisis. The response was so great that…
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New Normal
The day I arrived in NYC to take these pics the headline in the news was, ‘Its not “if” Coronavirus is going to devastate the US: Its “when.”‘ I wondered what it would look like. Two weeks later school was closed and business as I knew it was shut down. These pics were taken exactly…
Summer and City
I’m interrupting this regularly not-scheduled November Arctic Blast to bring to you a summer day and a sweet city baby who wanted to share her Starbucks with me. (It was just water, of course, but 100% sweet). Our son was 5 when we officially left the city and moved into our first and only suburban…
The Soul of Things
I love this work and I love this restaurant, we’ve been working together for years. I’ve never shared here because I worried the pictures didn’t “fit.” I’m a people photographer and this isn’t about people. I think I’ve been wrong about that. Over the weekend I helped my 10 y/o son clean out his clothing…
Wonder
Wonder/Curiosity/Serendipity I haven’t landed on the perfect word for this core business value but I’m hoping you can feel the gist. After almost 20 years of professional shooting its easy to take the same approach, the safe shot, to pick up the favorite lens, to assume I know what’s coming next. Sometimes I have done…
Boundaries
Arbus is no fan of wash day. This is a snippet from the weekend, my son at the ready with the hose and spraying his father mostly. Arbus gave me her brave smile which eventually gave way to the, “help me momma!/clubbed baby seal” face. Its time to admit to some of the lies I’ve…