Some Stuff

New project coming out in this weekend's @nytmag! Really eye opening article about the nation's history with housing and tax codes. Thank you @staceylbaker for sending me to Boston for this important story. "How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality: An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices -- and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class." (at Boston, Massachusetts)

New images made at Emory Univ. in Atlanta for a NY Times Mag's story titled, "Flower Power" by #ferrisjabr. The story is about how ancient botanical remedies could hold the answer to the looming antibiotic crisis. On newsstands today, go read it!

My portrait of Kelly Sanders of USC made one of 4 covers for the annual 35 Innovators Under 35 issue for @technologyreview ! On newsstands now. #printforever 😃 (at Los Angeles River)

In early April I flew to Iowa to shoot this story on the looming threat of avian flu in the United States for The New York Times Magazine. These were the two brothers that run the farm along with their father. They’re pictured here in one of their many barns that hold about 7,000 turkeys. Last year their farm got hit hard with avian flu as well as hundreds of other farms across the country. 

Huge congrats to director Asif Kapadia for his win for best documentary feature, Amy. He was such a nice guy, so happy for him! Photographed for Variety Magazine in 2015.

HI! I’m excited to announce I’m one of PDN’s 30 new/emerging photographers to watch for 2016. I’ve always wanted this award, very honored to make it in this year. Looking forward to 2016!

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/09/features/extreme-memory-tournament-mental-athletes

This was such a great experience. It was a total collaboration with Ramiro and I. The portrait is a reference to  “Las Meninas,”  a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez. 

Outtakes from a NY Time mag feature a month ago. Story was on Carlos (top left) and Roby (top right), two ex-cons who pick up inmates the day they are released from prison and help guide them through the changed world. Dale and Stanley are two former lifers who did 20+ years of a life sentence for drug crimes because of the CA 3 strikes law. Prop 36 changed the law to getting a life sentence for only serious and violent crimes. Lawyers working probono on behalf of Dale and Stanley helped secure their release. Here they are shown at a transitional home in Los Angeles called The Amity Foundation.

Raj Parr, winery owner. Outtake for NY Times Magazine story.

This is Alexandria, 28, eating cereal in her Mother’s home in Austin TX. I got called on a Thursday, I think, to see if I could shoot two cover options on Saturday and Sunday to be delivered by Monday morning. I was alone on this as I was with the other shoots, but this time, I was emailing with photo editors throughout the shoot since it was for cover and they had to consider space for type and headlines etc. I think I had about 3.5 hours total here and then left to the airport where I barely made it on my flight to Chicago for the 2nd cover shoot. 

HS: Well, there is a very basic reason for it. I didn’t feel I had the right to point the camera at someone without asking permission. And once you ask permission, you disrupt the scene. I would rather experience that instantaneous moment and then photograph it. I suppose I distill the essence of a scene, cast it and recreate a small aspect of it. I am interested in redefining the real, and staged photography seems to allow for an interpretation of the real-real time and how it is experienced both internally and externally. It reinforces our perception of ourselves in relation to the outside world.

Full Gallery

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😦 I yelled out FML as soon as I saw this. How?? 😱 (at Hacienda Heights, California)