Being a photographer is definitely not a glamorous job. It doesn’t really matter to me how crazy I look or what positions I have to get into in order to get an image because after all I’m behind the camera and not in front of it. Sometimes I have to stand on chairs because I’m […]
I’ve wanted to do this for awhile, talk about photography from the other side of the lens. A lot of photography and cinematography is focused on the same things, and I wanted to hop in for the ride to focus on people on the other side of the camera, or in this case person. The Actor […]
Shocking title. Not a pleasant shock either, because no one wants to think that we might be guilty of exploitation. But is that what we’re doing, when we go to photograph and raise awareness for people in less-than-ideal circumstances? It’s a question that every traveler, missionary and humanitarian photographer has to ask themselves, because it’s […]
You know those awesome stories you keep in your back-pocket? The cool, timeless ones? Well, at the beginning of this year I traveled to a remote part of the world, lived in a tropical jungle (slept with ants) and met my dark-skinned, salt-water brothers & sisters; the stories from my stay there are my back-pocket […]
In 2010, when I was first delving into photography, I attended a week-long photography workshop called the Institute of Photographic Studies (IPS) in Dallas, TX. The first afternoon we split up into groups of three and walked around historic downtown Dallas. I pass two homeless people who were walking along the sidewalk, and I turned […]