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10 years ago I beat Jeffery Wright at a game of chess. Granted, I got really lucky, plus I don’t think he would ever admit it, but its true. I was hired by HBO to photograph the image campaign for Boycott, a mini series about the Martin Luther King Jr. that Mr Wright was staring [...]

After waiting for years I finally had the opportunity to make it to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah this year and now that this major Rite of Passage has been completed I am reporting back with some images I made while I was there. Sundance is famous for its glamorous party’s but [...]

When I reflect on the year that unfolded in front of me and now sits squarely in the past, tumultuous is the word that comes to mind. It’s impossible to condense a whole year into a single blog post but as life passes us by the least I can do is point out a few [...]

For your viewing pleasure I am presenting two short videos that I have recently finished. Both of these videos were shot while on assignment for stills, but due to favorable circumstances I was able to squeeze in a little video on the back end of each of the shoots. The Gisine video was shot for [...]

To See the Living One Sheet Click Here! It’s the fall season and the networks are cranking out the hits. Terra Nova is finally being broadcast over the airwaves and the image campaign that I shot for FOX is plastered all over the city! It’s always thrilling to see a bus drive by or a [...]

Frank Lloyd Wright is one of my biggest hero’s. Visiting Fallingwater, the visionary house that he built for the Kaufmann family in 1936, has been a dream of mine for many years. The house sits over a river called Bear Run, about an hour and a half southwest of Pittsburg. My daughter is a senior [...]

The fashion story that I shot for Esquire with Dominic Cooper came out this summer and I couldn’t be happier! Its always exciting to see your hard work on the stands, and very rewarding I must say. I wrote a bit about the shoot in an earlier post which you can see here but in [...]

The luster of new wears thin quickly in the fast paced world of social media and lately I’ve been having trouble just finding the energy to check my facebook page or even to post a tweet. Its not that I don’t get it, I get it. I’ve spent countless hours lost deep inside comment chains, [...]

Even though we were “working” spending the afternoon with Kevin Bacon was much more fun than your usual day at the office. Kevin arrived slightly shy, but it didnt take long for the formalities to dissolve into a relaxing vibe, more on along the lines of a casual Friday, at the end of the day, [...]

Last month I was given one of those dream assignments that we all wish for. Esquire hired me to photograph Dominic Cooper for a 10 page fashion story to be shot in New Orleans. The catch: Dominic was only available for one day. We were fortunate to find a great location in the french quarter [...]

I get the impression that things have a tendency to happen in threes. Maybe there is some grand “Cluster Theory” floating around the universe and we just dont know it, but for whatever reason, I was given 3 serious illness assignments in a row. Usually I’m just hanging around with the cast of Glee, a [...]

Oh boy, am I behind on my blog posts. Well here is one to get me back in the mood. I shot 6 different artists for this crazy BUST Magazine fashion story last month over several days. As a central visual theme I worked with the artistic fabricators of crafty creations, The Confetti System, to [...]

Not only did I shoot this movie poster but I made the movie too! Thanks to my good pal Christian Struzan and XL for the awesome poster design. unbelievably I am still not finished with the post production of the film but have picturelock and will start submitting to festivals next week. Hopefully one of [...]

I recently had the opportunity to work with the actor Michael Shannon. He is mainly known for his role as Nelson Van Alden, the zealous Federal Prohibition agent on Boardwalk Empire, but I am particularly fond of his performance in the role of Kim Fowley for the movie “The Runaways” We did the shoot in [...]

I shot the image campaign for the FOX television series Human Target staring Mark Valley this last summer and let my tell you, we are lucky to be alive because this shoot was crazy! Thank god Mark was so fiercely strong and rugged because if he would have dropped that poor girl it would have [...]