12 months of emilia

Several years ago I started this thing called the Beacon Portrait Project.  My goal is to make a portrait of every resident of Beacon in their home.  I worked really hard at it, even getting a grant to turn it into a show, but at a certain point, I found myself feeling really burnt out. It was hard work on a lot of different levels. Often, just getting to the point that I was sitting across from my subject with the camera in between us took months of effort. And so I wanted to give myself a little break but to continue to shoot.  Enter Emilia.  I had just done her portrait for the project and I wondered what it would be like to shoot the same person over the period of a year - one portrait a month.  I am grateful to Emilia for her willingness to go here with me.  She's a beautiful person, inside and out.  Here are some of the fruits of our labors.

meredith heuer for the new york times

I shot a few jobs for The New York Times this week and it didn't hit me until I was typing in the photo credit:  Meredith Heuer for the New York Times, that I'm kind of proud of that.  I've worked for a lot of different publications but, somehow, never the New York Times.  Here's one of the shoots. This is Andrew Cohen and Jeremy Levitt from Parts and Labor Design reviewing their favorite stool (that they didn't design).  Full article here.

more from new form perspective!

Another great shoot with my dream team:  Gail Travis of NFP studio with hair by Carlos Jacome, make up by Jenny Atwood Smith and the lovely model, Delaney Coyle.  We shot at my studio at Atlas Industries in Newburgh.

more kids (and the teachers who teach them)