Notes From the Home Office
News from Philadelphia editorial, advertising, and corporate photographer Ryan Donnell

Thanks to Colin Lenton for pointing me to it.
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I got a chance to get out and work on my (alliteratively titled) Philadelphia Polling Place Project. I’ll be trying to get a comprehensive edit of the project done catch as catch can between paid work, but for now, here are a couple of my favorites from the Philadelphia DA’s election last week.
Bakery. Far Northeast.
Golf [...]

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If you haven’t gotten a chance to go through the recently released winner’s gallery for the 2009 PDN Photo Annual, go now.

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Just a quick end-of-the-day note (though I’m sure most peeps are already heading “Down the Shore”) to let everyone know that I’ve uploaded a few new images to the New Work section of my website. This update includes some images from my new, and on-going, project on roller skating here in Philly.
Enjoy the holiday!
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My brother, Jason, emailed me the other day a link to a photo essay by Phillip Toledano. If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s a wonderfully produced piece about Toledano’s last days with his aged father. And more than anything, it’s yet another great example of the power the Internet has for allowing storytellers to [...]

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I photographed U.S. Senate candidate Joe Torsella for this month’s Philadelphia Magazine. Joe was a very gracious subject. We bonded over his Catholic heritage and my marriage into Catholic heritage. He even told me a good joke about a priest, but, alas, this is a family-friendly blog and, thus, we won’t go there.
Poor Joe, though. [...]

Just back from a week in sunny Virginia, hangin’ with my homeys Rachael outta NYC and photographer/assistant extraordinaire Ryan Collerd. Since I can’t show the awesome photos we produced down in VA, yet, I thought I’d post a few more images from my rollerskating project. These are scans from some rolls that were processed just [...]