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 [...]
Whoopie Pies for Money Magazine
Last November my assistant John and I traveled to Boston to photograph Whoopie Pies, oh, and a couple people, for Money Magazine. Julie and Alan run Chococoa Baking and specialize in some great little pies. (I was always under the impression that these things were endemic to Lancaster County, Pa., but I’ve since learned [...]
Best Philadelphia Neighborhoods for Dining
I hope everyone had a great holiday and New Year. Rest was had around these parts and I’m looking forward to 2012. We ended 2011 with a great project with recently anointed Philadelphia Magazine Design Director Jesse Southerland and company. It’s our first cover together and I couldn’t have been more excited that to be [...]
Franklin Fountain Sodas for Imbibe Magazine
Usually when I’m working for Imbibe Magazine, I’m photographing beer brewers, or artisan cocktails creators, but this time the magazine had me photographing a modern-day anomaly…the soda fountain. The Franklin Fountain is located in the historic Old City section of Philadelphia and you could be forgiven for mistaking the store for a museum or antiques [...]
Pizza, Pizza, Philadelphia, Pizza, Pizza
McCormick & Company did it again this month: another great cover (and issue) of Philadelphia Magazine. Creative Director Michael McCormick and I collaborated to create a super simple and elegant cover photo of a slice of pepperoni pizza. It’s from the great Philly pizzeria Rustica in Northern Liberties and is almost actual size! My assistant [...]
Top Docs Cover Feature for Philadelphia Magazine
Got my copy of the May issue of Philadelphia magazine a few days ago. I completed a feature for the annual Top Docs story last month, in which we profiled six great nurses in the Philadelphia area. It was a departure from the normal Top Docs issue in a couple ways. One, they featured nurses [...]
“Generations” Feature in Philadelphia Magazine
I was tapped by the good people at Philly Mag to produce a set of portraits of people who will help shape various facets of Philadelphia life in the near future. As always, I want to thank every one of the subjects for their patience and help in making these images that I am proud [...]
New Work in Wharton Magazine
It’s always fun to get out of your usual box and try something new. For this feature in the Wharton Magazine, the editor and art director had told me they wanted vibrant, punchy colors because we going to be photographing the students against colorful flags. So I turned to one of color photography’s best friends…the [...]
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 [...]
Wayne Simmons for Money Magazine
A few weeks ago, I got an awesome assignment: making a portrait of Wayne Simmons, who, along with his son, runs the Scarehouse in Pittsburgh. Wayne left his corporate job in order to follow his dream (to each his own, I say) of running a haunted house. And they’ve created quite the place there in [...]
Dream Assignment? DC Cocktail Scene for Imbibe Magazine
With my recent beer and cheap eats features for Philly Mag and then this great assignment for the killer magazine, Imbibe, my summer was filled with great food and drink. I couldn’t be a happier photographer. The only way this assignment could have gotten better is if I hadn’t had to drive back to Philly [...]
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 [...]
Southwest Airline's Spirit Magazine
Because I’ve been fortunate enough to be shooting quite a lot lately and also working on a never-ending remodel of my office, it’s been awhile since my last real post. That said, I received a couple great clips in the mail recently and I wanted to share them. Last month, I got to meet a [...]
New Clip in Philadelphia Magazine: City of Brotherly Brew
Philly Mag’s Design Director Michael McCormick gave me what might’ve been the best assignment ever: shoot photographs of the local beer scene in and around Philadelphia. So began two weeks of hanging with some cool beer writers, brewers and pub owners. Not to mention, the awesome couple of days spent trying to get that perfect [...]
End of an Era – The Pulse, aka Philadelphicon
Be forewarned that I might get a little sappy here. I’ve been known to do so. The March issue of Philadelphia Magazine marks the end of a small epoch for me. Since November of 2005, I’ve been given the honor of making the opening photograph of the calendar section in Philadelphia Magazine. I haven’t made [...]
Clip: MSNBC.com
I had a quick editorial shoot for MSNBC.com the other week with Laurie Besden, a lawyer and recovering drug addict who begin using prescription drugs to pass the bar exam. The habit eventually took over her life and she was arrested on multiple occasions and lost her license. She has since quit the habit and [...]
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 [...]
Curtis Institute Story in Philadelphia Magazine
Last December, I got to spend about a week shadowing two talented young musicians for a story by John Marchese in the Feb. 2010 issue of Philadelphia Magazine. Becky Anderson and Ben Beilman were gracious enough to let me tag along during long rehearsals and performances. Keep an eye out for these two. Amazing. Big [...]
Clip – Joe Sestak for Philadelphia Magazine
I got a great chance last month to document a couple days in the life of U.S. Representative Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) for the latest issue of Philadelphia Magazine. You can read Jason Fagone‘s piece here. Sestak, as you might be aware, is running against Arlen Specter (who recently switched parties) in the upcoming Democratic primary. [...]
Cover of "M" Magazine in Abu Dhabi
Just wanted to post a link to another recent cover I photographed. This time for a client in Abu Dhabi, “M” Magazine, which is the Saturday magazine for The National newspaper. Big ups to my friend Kerri Abrams for helping me secure the gig.
Covers Galore….
I’ve been neglectful of my blog recently, but for good reason: I’ve been busy. My wife and I bought our first house & despite the terrible economic climate, I’ve been incredibly lucky to be very busy over the past 2 months. (Thank you everyone who had a part in that fact.) This run of good [...]
Architectural Record
I finally got my hands on a copy of the April issue of Architectural Record magazine. They gave nice play to a portrait that I made of a group of students at the Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD) here in Philadelphia. I got to sit in a few classes at this great [...]
Clips – April
Funny thing this month: I have two clips, from two separate magazines, that are so similar in theme and use of design. Both designers selected tight headshots of the subjects from my shoots and then also used food in the opposing title page design. The use of color in both is great also. I think [...]