Hair for the WSJ

Matt Craig of the Wall Street Journal gave me a ring several weeks ago for a shoot about Dominican hair salons. Apparently they were posing significant competition to the African-American hair salons with less talk and speedier service. One of the ladies I talked to had been there for 4 hours already and wasn’t even done. “Speedier service?” I asked myself. I guess it’s all relative. I showed up the day before Easter and it was packed. I felt like a sardine in a school of mullet – a scrawny white male in the midst of a bunch of Latino and black women. It was hot and the fumes were intoxicating. But that’s what I like about this job, being thrown into totally foreign situations and navigating your way through. I took a deep breath and made some pictures.

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Asheville: Lightness and Pain

"Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes." -The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Woodlands Chalet

Family Vacation, near Asheville, North Carolina

Washington Post.

Legal Eagle

I made this picture back the days of my internship at the Monroe Evening News. I was at a marine's house for one of those freedom holidays -- I think it was the 4th of July. This was sitting in the corner of the room. It was caught and stuffed back in the day when they weren't so endangered. Even though they had this thing registered, every now and then they'd have neighbors report them to the EPA. The picture wasn't so interesting to me then, but I just recovered it and realize how strange it actually is.

Jeff Powelson for the Wall Street Journal

Building Mug for the Wall Street Journal

Kudzu for Nat Geo

The first day of my internship at National Geographic Magazine, I was sent out to shoot a picture of kudzu, the invasive vine that blankets vegetation. It's not the most invigorating subject in the world, but I set out at night to do some light painting to try to make it a bit more dynamic.

lost but found

I came across these images in the depths of my hard drives - Circa 2007 in Gainesville, Florida, when my way of life was engulfed by the college, with plenty of good friends and good times.

Snowpocalypse

There was a blizzard here in DC before Christmas. And I just found these photos on my desktop.