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Earlier this year I received my first assignment for Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine.  The job was to shoot a portrait of crafter Denise Sharp who has her studio here in my hometown of Portland, Oregon.  Denise is an extremely innovative designer who can make anything out of anything.  Her eye for materials, color and texture [...]

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One of the most interesting things about being an editorial photographer are the environmental portrait assignments.  Sometimes, the photograph is of a person I meet while traveling who is part of a larger story, but most of the portrait assignments are to illustrate a singular person. For this assignment for Smithsonian Magazine, I was to [...]

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Last May I had the pleasure of being assigned a portrait session with famed author Paul Theroux.  The image is published in Smithsonian Magazine alongside his article entitled, “The Trouble with Autobiography.” It was a wonderful afternoon spent with him at his home on Oahu not only chatting about all sorts of things, but touring [...]

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It is with great pleasure to announce that my work has been recognized by Photo District News Magazine in their annual Faces contest in the category of editorial portraiture.  The image that won was from a photo shoot I did for National Geographic Traveler Magazine about dining in Sydney.  My editor had assigned me to [...]

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Because I’ve never been known to be a sports photographer, the call from the photo editor at the sports desk of the New York Times was unexpected, as was the assignment: to shoot a portrait of long distance runner Chris Solinsky at the Nike campus.  He has created quite a stir in the running community [...]

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I had the incredible pleasure of spending a day at home with Wendy Burden, author of the forthcoming book, “Dead End Gene Pool.” The assignment was for the Homes and Gardens section of the New York Times and the story was just posted this afternoon on the Times’ web site.  We spent the day photographing [...]

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Sometimes, assignments come across the desk which end up being more of a gift than a job. This story for the New York Times came through at last minute: the evening before the shoot was to take place.  Technically, I was already booked, so although I ended up a wee bit late for the other [...]

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