PORTFOLIO ONE: ON ASSIGNMENT

 

PORTFOLIO ONE: ON ASSIGNMENT

Assignments, campaigns or exploring spaces of note.

Select editorial work found in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Times, USA Today, Education Week, The Denver Post.

 
 

Portraits + Spaces

 
 

Live Music

Denver’s live music scene is a rich space for photographers to explore dive bars, historic theaters and mystic venues like Red Rocks.

 

Bands show here: Widespread Panic, Phil Lesh, Starfucker, Trampled By Turtles, Das Racist, Akron Family, Love Language, Smith Westerns, St. Vincent, Telekinesis, Wye Oak.

 
 

Gettysburg, For The New Yorker

Commissioned by The New Yorker to document, for the publication’s Instagram feed, Gettysburg National Battlefield Park during the 150th remembrance of the three days American Civil War battle that raged July 1-3, 1863.

This commission worked in parallel with a personal project that sought to look at our inheritance from the American Civil War as a broader project called The 150 Project.

Since 2011, this project has been revisiting the slaveholder rebellion that led to the American Civil War while encouraging a revitalized interest through multiple platform single-storytelling.

 
 
 

See More: journal updates, dispatches, briefs, behind the scenes, thoughts and ideas.

 
JOURNAL
On Failure 01
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On Failure 01
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“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” - Johnny Cash

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Prine
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Prine
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John Prine would tell stories between songs or when he’d reach for a new guitar. ⁣ ⁣ The packed audience was completely silent, hanging on every word, listening to a sermon of sorts, Sunday mass for the everyman. ⁣⁣

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Bloomberg Canvassers for the Los Angeles Times
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Bloomberg Canvassers for the Los Angeles Times
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I was recently assigned to walk the Denver burbs for the Los Angeles Times and speak with primary voters and document canvassers. For the first time in 20 years, Colorado is holding a presidential primary instead of caucuses.

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Maternal Harm for USA TODAY
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Maternal Harm for USA TODAY
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The United States maternal death rate is among the highest in the developed world. Eighteen states haven't studied these deaths and others tend to blame moms. This assignment, to photograph and interview Nathan Butler, played a role in a larger project, Deadly Deliveries, launched by USA TODAY to investigate why thousands of moms are needlessly injured, and some die, giving birth every year in the U.S.

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Columbine for Education Week
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Columbine for Education Week
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Visitors read the raised bronze letters of the Columbine Memorial plaques in whispers, asking questions to God, survivors, the community, and each other.

The confusion still hangs in the air, blending with the sounds of current events. They ring in your ears as you run your hand along the rough red sandstone wall built into the side of a hill where students once gathered before football games, after class, and in times of joy.

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Hailey Wait For Barcroft Media
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Hailey Wait For Barcroft Media
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Recently assigned by Barcroft Media, I drove south to the small mountain town of Buena Vista, Colorado to link up with Hailey Wait, a local teen who is using her social media influence to showcase an often misunderstood truth in beauty:

You don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.

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The Art of Civil Discourse For Education Week
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The Art of Civil Discourse For Education Week
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Outtakes from a recent assignment for Education Week to document and gather portraits of Overland High School students involved in a program seeking to build and strengthen civil discourse skills.

Again, I’m proud to play a part in a larger initiative that Education Week launched in October to help better understand the role of education in the, as many say, current American civics crisis.

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How History Class Divides Us For Education Week
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How History Class Divides Us For Education Week
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New photography work published for Education Week. Proud to play a part of a larger initiative that launched in October to help better understand the role of education in the, as many say, current American civics crisis.

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Education Week, Tear Sheets
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Education Week, Tear Sheets
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My editor at Education Week recently emailed me a handful of PDFs from a long-range project, Citizen Z, I worked on with the publication along with a few assignments.

Thanks for taking a look.

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Artifacts
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Artifacts
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Final Edition. Presses fell silent. Shuttered. February 27, 2009.

Artifacts from an era of booming profits, record readership, and huge circulation numbers are all that remain of many newspapers.

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