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New project coming out in this weekend's @nytmag! Really eye opening article about the nation's history with housing and tax codes. Thank you @staceylbaker for sending me to Boston for this important story. "How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality: An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices -- and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class." (at Boston, Massachusetts)

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Ok. I will be speaking on a panel for the PDN world tour tonight at Columbia College in Chicago tonight at 6:30 with @stephaniegonot @edeani. 😅 (at Columbia College Chicago)

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New images made at Emory Univ. in Atlanta for a NY Times Mag's story titled, "Flower Power" by #ferrisjabr. The story is about how ancient botanical remedies could hold the answer to the looming antibiotic crisis. On newsstands today, go read it!

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My portrait of Kelly Sanders of USC made one of 4 covers for the annual 35 Innovators Under 35 issue for @technologyreview ! On newsstands now. #printforever 😃 (at Los Angeles River)

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In early April I flew to Iowa to shoot this story on the looming threat of avian flu in the United States for The New York Times Magazine. These were the two brothers that run the farm along with their father. They’re pictured here in one of their many barns that hold about 7,000 turkeys. Last year their farm got hit hard with avian flu as well as hundreds of other farms across the country. 

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Huge congrats to director Asif Kapadia for his win for best documentary feature, Amy. He was such a nice guy, so happy for him! Photographed for Variety Magazine in 2015.

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HI! I’m excited to announce I’m one of PDN’s 30 new/emerging photographers to watch for 2016. I’ve always wanted this award, very honored to make it in this year. Looking forward to 2016!

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Outtake for Wired UK story titled “The science behind the best memorisers in the world.”  This is Johannes Mallow, Extreme Memory Tournament Champion.

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/09/features/extreme-memory-tournament-mental-athletes

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Outtake from New York Times Magazine portrait of artist Ramiro Gomez. One of my favorite and most memorable assignments this year.

This was such a great experience. It was a total collaboration with Ramiro and I. The portrait is a reference to  “Las Meninas,”  a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez. 

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Outtakes from a NY Time mag feature a month ago. Story was on Carlos (top left) and Roby (top right), two ex-cons who pick up inmates the day they are released from prison and help guide them through the changed world. Dale and Stanley are two former lifers who did 20+ years of a life sentence for drug crimes because of the CA 3 strikes law. Prop 36 changed the law to getting a life sentence for only serious and violent crimes. Lawyers working probono on behalf of Dale and Stanley helped secure their release. Here they are shown at a transitional home in Los Angeles called The Amity Foundation.

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Raj Parr, winery owner. Outtake for NY Times Magazine story.

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This was one of the over options for my NYT Mag Boomerang Kids photo essay last year, this one unfortunately didn’t make it. It’s one of my favorite images.

This is Alexandria, 28, eating cereal in her Mother’s home in Austin TX. I got called on a Thursday, I think, to see if I could shoot two cover options on Saturday and Sunday to be delivered by Monday morning. I was alone on this as I was with the other shoots, but this time, I was emailing with photo editors throughout the shoot since it was for cover and they had to consider space for type and headlines etc. I think I had about 3.5 hours total here and then left to the airport where I barely made it on my flight to Chicago for the 2nd cover shoot. 

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Hannah Starkey - Photographs 1997-2007

Selection of images from Hannah Starkey’s 2007 book, Photographs 1997-2007. This is one of my all time favorite photographers. I’ve reread the interview at the back of the book so many times over the years. It’s so helpful to hear an artist speak on their work and their process. Looking forward to her next book!

“Hannah Starkey’s early works were staged photography scenarios based on the experiences of young women living in the contemporary city. Meticulously constructed and often cinematic, they suggest a narrative that had been artificially suspended in time.”

Interview excerpt:

Your pictures involve a complicated construction process that involves actresses, models and sets. How did you arrive at this way of working?

HS: Well, there is a very basic reason for it. I didn’t feel I had the right to point the camera at someone without asking permission. And once you ask permission, you disrupt the scene. I would rather experience that instantaneous moment and then photograph it. I suppose I distill the essence of a scene, cast it and recreate a small aspect of it. I am interested in redefining the real, and staged photography seems to allow for an interpretation of the real-real time and how it is experienced both internally and externally. It reinforces our perception of ourselves in relation to the outside world.

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Here's a few selects from a feature I photographed a couple weeks back for The Hollywood Reporter. I was assigned to cover the media frenzy around the "American Sniper Trial" in the small cowboy town of Stephenville TX, about 90 miles West of Dallas. Such an amazing experience. Incredibly sad for the Kyle and Littlefield families. I'm glad they are happy with the verdict. 

The first landscape photograph is the last road Chris Kyle (The American Sniper) and his best friend Chad Littlefield drove on with Eddie Ray Routh at the Rough Creek Lodge. Routh would later murder Kyle and Littlefield at the shooting range of the lodge where Chris would take veterans with PTSD to shoot as a form of therapy.

Full Gallery

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GREG MILLER! 

From the archive: Bovina, New York. 2004.

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Here's a few of the photos I made for Variety Mag's Oscars issue a couple weeks back. Had an amazing time photographing the people behind the awards ceremony. 8 portraits include : Talent Producer, Set Designer, Envelope Designer, Ballot Counters, Event Production Manager, Sound Engineer, Head Writer and Head Choreographer. 

The rest are HERE.

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😦 I yelled out FML as soon as I saw this. How?? 😱 (at Hacienda Heights, California)