This month, RayKo Photo Center, in San Francisco, will be featuring images from my Skeleton in the Closet series in their show Por(trait) Revealed. I’ll be there for the opening on July 28, so if you are in the Bay Area, please join me! (Por)trait Revealed // A juried exhibition of portrait photography Reception: Wednesday,...
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How does an artist find time to make art, on top of juggling all of his other responsibilities? Why do so many art school graduates fail to go on to successful artmaking careers? How do you make a living and make art? These are questions I explore in my current article Buying Time: Balancing the...
Haiti. I got the call just two and a half weeks before we left. Seth Johnson rang me up and told me he couldn’t get me off his mind. He was going to Haiti with a friend, and thought I might want to join them. I told him I’d think about it. Haiti is...
In 2007, I had the privilege of photographing a wedding out in the country, on an estate that included a lake and an outdoor model railroad, and a lot of children. It was a beautiful day, and Gretchen and I had a great time photographing Brian and Sybil’s wedding. Fast forward 3 years, and I...
Last year I began offering Model Portfolio Photography packages, as a way to help budding models build a quality portfolio which they can show to agencies, reps, and photographers. This past week, we created a lovely set of images for Shakira Williams, a new model in Portland. After an hour with our in-house hair and...
The longer I’m around this planet, the more opportunities I have to discover that it really is a small world. I’ve photographed students at DaVinci Middle School, here in Portland, since about 2001. I began there working on my fine arts thesis project, working with several teachers and tons of students, observing, photographing, and writing. ...
Curator Leo Michelson and gallery owner Charles Froelick called me up last year with an intriguing idea. They were pairing up 17 painters with 17 photographers, asking them to create a portrait of one another. The resulting show is titled Two of a Kind. I was paired with local painter Shanon Playford, whose beautiful, often...