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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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.
PECO Ad's Up!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Noticed – Multimedia Muse
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 [...]
Clips: Phila Mag – Jan 09
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 [...]
In Print: Nov. '08 EMC On
I photographed Andrew Worley, of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, for the November cover of EMC On Magazine. Andrew was a good sport, trudging through ankle deep wet grass in his business clothes, because I wanted a shot in the beautiful morning light on the Wyeth campus. Art Director: Ronn Campisi