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08.26.08 -- Stop Smiling Ex-Pat issue out now, Check it out! I have a portrait of Clive James, a photo essay from China, and a photo essay on the famous pizza places of NYC. Check out the images from the pizza story in the most recent project under 'Commissions'.


08.06.08 -- JC Gabel and I were down in Washington DC last week taking photos for the DC Issue of Stop Smiling which will be out a few weeks before the election, check it out!


07.31.08 -- On a recent trip to Seattle I found and digitized a bunch of old Ektrachrome slides of my Grandfather's. Of particular interest were photos taken in Japan while he was stationed there as a medic in the U.S. Army from the end of 1945 to 1947.

View the images here.


07.28.08 -- Scott Lipps


07.07.08 -- Devon Aoki in Portraits


06.29.08 -- New Landscapes from LA.


03.16.08 -- I am pleased to announce that my Noah Baumbach portrait(below) for Stop Smiling Magazine was selected for this years American Photography Annual.


03.04.08 -- I.D. Magazine asked me to go and photograph the new show at the MoMA - Design and the Elastic Mind. You can see some of these photos in their upcoming issue as well as in the Structures section and the I.D. Commissions section on this site.


03.02.08 -- New images from a Stop Smiling shoot with Sophie Dahl at the Gramercy Park Hotel. For the record, Sophie is by far the friendliest and most accommodating person I've photographed. I'll post the whole shoot once the issue comes out.


03.04.08 -- I am proud to announce that Print Magazine has included me in their annual 'NVA' issue this year. It is on the newstands now. Thanks Print!


02.01.08 -- I.D. Magazine sent me to Burlington, Vermont to photograph the JDK offices. One of the images of a fake deer dartboard was used for the cover.