Late last year, I spent a day inside a Sunny Delight plant for a Wall Street Journal story about companies using federal business improvement money to grow their business without creating new jobs. One of my images was used for both the print edition (page B1 of the Jan. 17, 2012, Wall Street Journal) and online. You can read the article at WSJ.com: Man vs. Machine, a Jobless Recovery

You can see more images from the shoot in the Recent Work section of this website: Inside a Sunny Delight plant for the Wall Street Journal

Screenshot of MIT.edu featuring portrait of Professor Jeffrey Grossman

A photo from a recent portrait shoot for MIT’s News Office was featured on the homepage of MIT.edu on January 26, 2012. You can read the story here: Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time

Screenshot of MIT.edu on 12 December 2011. Portrait of Antonio Torralba by M. Scott Brauer for MIT News

A picture from a recent assignment for MIT News was used as the homepage for MIT on Dec. 12, 2011. The image teases a story on Dr. Antonio Torralba’s work to develop image-interpreting artificial intelligence.

M. Scott Brauer on Tumblr

I’ve been posting photos quietly on tumblr for a little while, primarily images from my phone and archival images found while responding to photo requests, and I thought I should announce it formally. You can follow along here or peruse the archive.

From the series China Everbright

My series, China Everbright, will be shown again in Shanghai on Dec. 7, 2011, as part of Tim Franco‘s periodic Photographer Night at Dada Bar at 115号 Xing Fu Lu, Chang Ning Qu, Shanghai, China. Here’s the facebook invitation for the event. The work was previously shown at this location for the Beijing + Shanghai Jue Art Festival, and now it returns for a “Best of” night, curating the best presentations in the year-long photography series. Thanks to Tim for supporting photography of China!

I’m excited to announce that two of my images, from the series on China’s zoos Small Concrete Boxes, have been selected for inclusion in My Own Wilderness, an online exhibition and book created by Christopher Paquette of Photo/arts Magazine. You can see a high quality version of the exhibition/slideshow at Vimeo and a list of included photographers here. More than 150 photographers submitted over 700 images to the call for entries; 50 photographers made the cut. Thanks to Christopher and congratulations to the winners!

Education Week is rapidly becoming a favorite client. Their assignments always cover interesting subjects and the editors (Nicole and Charlie) love to see creative takes on those subjects. Most recently, I traveled in Smithfield, Rhode Island, to photograph urban school children on a nature walk at an Audubon site. You can see a few images from the shoot in the recent work section of this website or in my archive.

2011 Montana Winter Guide - featuring an image of M. Scott Brauer

I get sidetracked into thinking of my photos only in the context of newsstand papers and magazines, so I’m always happy to find unconventional uses for them. One of my pictures, from Showdown Ski Area in central Montana, was featured in this year’s Winter Guide (available in hotels and tourist locations in the Western US and as a free PDF) published by the Montana Office of Tourism. You can see other images from Showdown in my archive or elsewhere on this site.

OccupyBoston protesters link arms around the tents in preparation for a planned police action at their second encampment at Rose F. Kennedy Greenway a block from Dewey Square, in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The police and city officials warned protesters that they would be forceably removed from the site by midnight. At about 1:30am police moved into the park, arrested approximately 100 protesters, and cleared the park of all tents and other protest materials. The protesters are part of OccupyBoston, which is part of the OccupyWallStreet movement, expressing discontent with the socioeconomic situation of the 99% of the US population who are not wealthy. Protestors have been camping in Dewey Square since Sept. 30, 2011. Gradually, larger organizations, including major labor unions, have expressed their support for the OccupyBoston effort.

I’ve just uploaded to my portfolio site a selection of images from my coverage of OccupyBoston, a protest that has been going on in downtown Boston since late September 2011. An offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, protesters in Boston have camped in Dewey Square and hosted a number of marches and educational events at their encampment and throughout Boston. See the images here or license images from a broader edit at my archive here.