wash teeth, if any

Woody Guthrie's new year's resolutions, 1942/43
happy new year!!

on grief, for edible hudson valley mag

Here are a few photos that recently I shot for Edible Hudson Valley Magazine.  This is not the first time I have illustrated, rather than documented,  a story for them.  It's a fun challenge.  I read the story and make pictures that I feel help to tell it.  Here is a link to a similar story that I shot for them a couple of years ago.  Coincidently it was also about death. Go figure.

 

kim markel and her dancing chair

Meet designer/fabricator Kim Markel and her ghostly furniture.  Kim takes traditional, Louis XVI style furniture (mostly found) and casts the wood in a mold so that she can then remake each piece in resin.  The result feels at once old and new.  Light, because it is a translucent material but still heavy with it's luxurious scalloped detailing.  See dancing chair video below.

katie and jim, stills

Here are some of my favorite photos from Katie and Jim's October wedding on Martha's Vineyard.

katie and jim

here's super 8 from katie and jim's wedding on martha's vineyard.  hi res version here.  

photos coming soon!

david rees, smiling

I recently photographed a man who told me about a camera made by Sony that has a smile recognition function.  The camera 'sees' when the subject is smiling and takes the photo at, I guess, this most opportune (dare I say decisive?) moment.  This idea seems both creepy and flawed to me. For one, everyone's smile is different.   The man who told me about this camera is a perfect example.  He said that, try as he might, he was not able to make the shutter go off.  His smile spreads rather than curls.   His story made me think of time spent shooting with David Rees for his book, How to Sharpen Pencils. David's smiles are subtle and when he laughs it's a little reluctant, shy and infectious.  Over the course of our shoot, David impressed me with his ability to keep a exceptionally straight face while we made strange and surreal pictures of him prepping to and then sharpening pencils.  After the shooting was done, I was left to edit a thousand pictures of David down to the couple hundred that would appear in the book.  Bleary eyed toward the end of my editing, I noticed this picture.  When David came over the next day to look at photos, I showed it to him and said, "I think you are smiling in this one."  He looked at it and said, "Yes, I am."

jessica wickham

In a day of what I call 'speed styling' I photographed a ton of Jessica Wickham's cutting boards last week.  Each one is unique with a live-edge detail.  Check out the story I wrote about her for Gardenista here.