Finally putting the finishing touches on a new book of prints from current project “Behind the Curtain: A Look at Philadelphia’s Unique Polling Stations”. As with all my portfolio books, I’d be happy to send it along to any AD, CD, photo editors or art buyers that are interested in seeing it.
(For the geeks out [...]
03.05.2010
02.24.2010
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Just received a couple of clips of published images, which I made last year in NYC. They were shot for Yoga Journal’s department sections in the Feb. issue. It was a fun assignment, if challenging.
It went down like this: Yoga Journal asked me to shoot 3 separate assignments in one day because all the subjects [...]
02.18.2010
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Photo by Chris Hamilton. Sweetwater, Texas, rattlesnake round-up. ca. I-Have-No-Idea.
WARNING: This is long and rambling. And this is the NY Times article that spawned the rant.
11-years ago, my first job in photography was as a part-time photographer at the Arlington Morning News in Texas, a small suburban paper owned by the Belo Corp., which also [...]
02.08.2010
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So here’s the latest installment of the Assistant’s Corner. Thanks guys:
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11.10.2009
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Ok everyone, we have a fantastic edition of The Assistants’ Corner. I’ve been pretty busy over the past few months so I have a nice collection of assistant outtakes. Thanks again to all these hardworkin’ folk who tirelessly haul gear, wrap cords, hold gray cards and generally make me feel like I know what I’m [...]
10.15.2009
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Tracking down my PECO ad on bus shelters in the hinterlands of suburban Philadelphia was a really difficult endeavor. Shooting a picture of the shelter ad was hazardous, involving a frogger-esque event of running across four lanes of traffic and standing in the road to get a decent angle, but alas, I finally have proof [...]
07.09.2009
Ryan (left) + Ryan (right)
We’re a handsome pair, no? No? You’re right.
Just wanted to let anyone paying attention to this space that I’ll be traveling to Chicago and Madison, WI, from tomorrow, the 10th through July 15. If you have any photographic needs from one of those places, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. [...]
06.23.2009
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I’ve never been an assistant during my career in photography. And only in the last 4 or 5 years have I really been using assistants. (Shockingly, we didn’t get assistants as newspaper photographers. Unless you count the occasional PR person holding our off-camera flash.)
Any photographer who utilizes assistants has a huge collection of images of [...]