YOU'RE THE STAR OF MY MOVIE

I’ve been shooting lots of television ads for the Nickelodeon show Dora the Explorer (you can see one here). But I managed to shoot another picture for the Ladies of Castor & Pollux. Here’s Julie Engell:

“I like to think of myself —as an artist— as being in a nondescript swamp, alone, up to my knees in mire, painting the vital beauty I see there, in my own way, not caring a damn about tradition, or anyone’s opinion.” — Charles Burchfield Gardenville, February 8th, 1938 I was at a party last [...]

Another pic for the T Magazine blog I took last week of an amazing new bike store, Adeline Adeline, in Tribeca. Check out the Guv’nor, it’s a beauty. Not too dissimilar from the crappy stripped down 70s Raleigh I ride now (not a fixie mind you) but a far cry from my days as a [...]

I shot stills for a couple of days on the set of Breaking Upwards. They made a feature for $15,000 i.e. you should probably do something really cool with your spare time too. This blog is entitled “You’re the Star of My Movie.” It’s kind of like a song title… somehow it just seems right. For [...]

The post before last had me thinking about photos on the edge of getting picked. None of these pictures made it through the editing process for a story I shot a couple of months ago for the NYTimes but I like them all. The editing process is about eliminating problems and these three have them. [...]

A picture of jewelry designer Anna Sheffield for  Castor & Pollux. I never do night shoots but it was fun hanging out with Anna and after the shoot I had dinner instead of rushing to the computer. Nothing wrong with that!

My wife, Kerrilynn, and I work on projects together all the time. One of my favorite projects is a section of her  blog (old blog here) for her store Castor & Pollux. She often leads by example (e.g she had a blog way before I did). I remain unconvinced in regards to twitter but she [...]

A recent shoot of Alya Kazakevich of a.b.k. leather for The New York Times T Magazine blog got the slide show treatment. One of the great things about being a photographer is meeting new people. Here’s proof: I had never met someone from Siberia. I can now check that off my to do list. Alya [...]