Kristan Lieb photo & video

Some recent portraits for the Chicago Tribune and Investors Business Daily. 

I also shot video for this story, which you can see here. For the Chicago Tribune. 

From the top: Longman & Eagle, Fat Rice, Interurban, Diversey Wine, Booth One, Dutch & Doc’s and Maison Marcel. 

Scenes from Office Depot’s volunteer day at Ogden Park in Englewood. 

I was shooting breakfast foods at Southport Grocery and this girl was wearing a witch costume. In April. All hail breakfast witch! 

Badass alert: ABC 7′s Evelyn Holmes practices hockey at 5:30 AM on Sundays. She’s been playing for about a year. Shot for the Chicago Tribune. 

In March I took over for my friend Taylor Glascock and played campaign photographer for a day. I followed around Illinois Gubernatorial candidate JB Pritzker just days after he won the democratic primary. In the morning he had a breakfast event where he spoke at a union hall. Then we headed to the March For Our Lives where he listened to Chicago area teenagers speak about their experiences with gun violence. 

Back in March I photographed some places across Chicago for the Chicago Tribune’s “Hidden Chicago” booklet. This one didn’t make it into print, but it was by far my favorite. This is Zap Props in Bridgeport, owned by Bill Rawski. It’s a huge warehouse where they have any kind of movie prop you can think of in large quantities. You’ve definitely seen movies featuring Rawski’s props. The last picture features his kids, who will be taking over Zap. I could’ve spent hours there. 

I did some behind the scenes photography at a dog Halloween shoot benefitting Paws Chicago, a local dog rescue. It was SO fun and so ridiculous. 

5th grader Chyla Lockhart leads students from Village Leadership Academy in a chant to protest the name of Douglas Park. The park is currently named for a slaveholder and the class would like to rename it for Frederick Douglass. Shot for the Chicago Tribune. 

In January I followed a crew from Butler University for the Wall Street Journal. They were going around Evanston surprising students who were accepted to Butler with a visit from their bulldog mascot. They took photo and video of these visits and put them up on Butler’s social media. Colleges are facing lower enrollment numbers and are looking for new and exciting ways to get students interested in their schools. 

Back in February I was asked to shoot some video while 18 sets of toddler twins met the easter bunny at a mall. It was very cute and very loud! Check out the video here: https://www.insideedition.com/18-sets-twin-tots-gather-massive-photo-easter-bunny-41463

The Spice Room in Logan Square (for the Chicago Reader) 

The Puerto Rican festival in Humboldt Park 

League in their new offices at WeWork River North (for the Chicago Tribune)

BMO’s volunteer day on a really, really hot day in June. 

Lit Fest is the best! Perfect for a bookworm like me. Some of the authors in these photos: Al Franken, Rita Dove, Jeremy McCarter and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. For the Chicago Tribune.