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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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. Share on Facebook
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So, I was driving to one of the big box hardware stores today and guess what I spied along the way: one of the billboards that I recently completed for PECO this past summer. We created two ads for the campaign, one of which is being used on billboards throughout the region and one that [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
I received my daily “Ryan Donnell” Google alert in my email today and was pleasantly surprised to see a kind mention of my recent Polling Place Project at the website Multimedia Muse. This site is a roundup of great photo- or video-based multimedia projects. Many of which are being published by newspapers or magazines, but [...]
I got my first clip of 2009 the other day. It was an assignment that was a little out of my normal M.O.: Make a portrait of a house. The story was a memoir-style piece about growing up in a section of Philadelphia called The Northeast. I had a great time using a new piece [...]
