Poster-Sized Pictures of Ab-tastic Men Promo Mailed
My assistant Dave and I just dropped my latest mailer into the USPS’s hands. The 17 x 22 inch poster, printed on newsprint, features some of the beefcakes that I photographed for Philadelphia Magazine back in 2010. The images ran in the 2011 Best of the Shore issue in a photo essay about New Jersey [...]
Academy of Sciences for Drexel Magazine
One of the coolest commissions that I had last year was being assigned by Tim Hyland at Drexel Magazine to create portraits of some of the curators, collections managers and scientists at the Academy of Sciences here in Philadelphia. Drexel and the Academy began a formal relationship last year and this was a really nice [...]
Philly Mag 2011 Shore Issue
It might be considered a rite of passage for Philadelphia photographers, that is to shoot the annual shore issue for Philadelphia Magazine. If nothing else, it’s a kind of honor. I write “kind of” because, while it confers a trust and loyalty from the powers-that-be at the magazine, which any photographer would be honored to [...]
The Lost Ad Campaign
Three years ago, I was hired by an agency to create a series of ads for The Philadelphia Foundation, which, if you don’t know, is a huge philanthropic group that supports all kinds of great non-profits and community groups. The TPF might be described as the non-profit’s non-profit. The campaign was going to be huge: [...]
Ballerina Abigail Mentzer for Philadelphia Magazine
It’s always fun to make pictures in a building as beautiful and historic as The Academy of Music. For a photographer used to making pictures of “real people,” as we call them in the news biz, having the opportunity to photograph a beautiful and professional ballerina in a 153-year-old opera house is like shooting fish [...]
Philadelphia Magazine Cheap Eats!
Just wanted to give a shout to everyone that helped make Philly Mag’s Cheap Eats cover story a success: Michael, Zoey, Jess, Ryan, Isaac, Matt. A special thanks to Design Director Michael McCormick and Photography Director Zoey Sless-Kitain, for the surgical styling they performed for both the cover and the sandwich spectacular….whew, that was a [...]
"Behind the Curtain" Sneak Peek
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 [...]
New Clips: Yoga Journal
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 [...]
Tales From a Recovered Independent Contractor
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., [...]
The Assistants' Corner.
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 [...]
PECO, Revisited….
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 [...]
The Dynamic Duo.
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 [...]
The Assistant Corner.
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 [...]