News from the Farm

From the Shameless Self-Promotion Dept.: After a good summer with lots of travel and some interesting projects, it’s almost enough with the fun now and back to work. But let me start the long, dark drudge towards winter by bragging about a few good developments here: Recent Heavy Light interviewee Stephen Mallon made it to [...]

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The science of baby babble was the focus of this shoot for Discover Magazine. My assistant and I drove up to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire to illustrate the research work of Laura-Ann Petitto, a cognitive neuroscientist using a technique commonly known (ok, not commonly known) as near-infrared spectroscopy to learn about the speech development [...]

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Kiss and Tell

A few months after 9/11 I received a phone call from Michele Fleury , the photo editor at The Advocate, a gay interests magazine based in L.A.. They wanted to publish a tribute to honor New York’s gay and lesbian police officers and firefighters and Michele wanted me to shoot a group portrait of some [...]

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Bronsema’s Schussaffen

From the Visual Research Dept.: A few of the picture postcards that hang over my desk to aid me in my daily struggle with their inspirational and entertaining qualities, come from Martin Bronsema’s “Vorsicht Schussaffen” series. Martin is an old pal of mine from Hamburg and his working method is quite interesting from a photography [...]

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Stephen Mallon’s Subway Submarines

Stephen Mallon is a Brooklyn based industrial, art, and industrial art photographer. His photographic documentary of the salvage of Flight 1549 (the one that Sully landed safely on the Hudson) resulted in some stunning art work and generated a lot of buzz in the media.  His project about the sinking of old subway cars in [...]

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