A few months back, The Verge / Vox Media contacted me for a couple of shoots in the Boston area, the first of which being a profile of Dr. Alex “Sandy” Pentland of MIT’s Media Lab. You can read the article and see a few more pictures from my 10 minutes with Pentland at The Verge: Meet the Godfather of Wearables

You can see a few more pictures in the recent work section of my website.

Earlier this month, I photographed Dr. Michael Levin and his lab at the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology for New Scientist magazine, my first assignment for the publication. Three pictures ran in print with the interview (seen above) and online. Thanks to Dave at New Scientist for calling me for the assignment.

You can see more images from the shoot in the recent work section or in my online archive.

Screenshot of Dagbladet Information website - May 2014 - Glenn Greenwald interview

I photographed Glenn Greenwald for Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information. You can see a few more shots in the Recent Work section of my website, or in my archive. My picture accompanied an interview with Greenwald on a wide range of topics surrounding the NSA Leaks and Edward Snowden, including how the Danish government works with the US government on mass surveillance programs. The article is available on Information’s website, and includes the full interview in English.

This week I’m joining members of the Boreal Collective and a few other New England photographers showing work at a slideshow event in the Flash Forward Festival in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The event is free and open to the public on April 30 at 7pm at Petit Robert Central, 101 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110 (entrance at 34 Summer Street, and it’s happening in the Paris Room). Each speaker will show 20 slides at 20 seconds each, accompanied by a talk about the project, following the Pecha Kucha format. The work shown covers diverse subject matter–I’ll be showing recent work from Russia–and it all fits, more or less, in the realm of documentary photography.

The photographers presenting are: Laurence Butet-Roch, Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Brett Gundlock, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Tony Luong, Mauricio Palos, John Tully, Ian Willms, and M. Scott Brauer. Justin Maxon is listed as a participant, but couldn’t make it at the last minute, unfortunately.

Hope to see you there. And if you don’t make it to this slideshow, hopefully you can attend some of the other Flash Forward events this weekend. There’s a great lineup this year.

I had the tremendous opportunity to attend the second New York Times Lens Blog Portfolio Review last weekend at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. It was a whirlwind trip, and, especially, a whirlwind day at the portfolio review. I’ll post a longer wrap-up post on dvafoto in the coming days, but wanted to express a heartfelt thanks to Jim Estrin and the rest of the Lens Blog crew for setting up the event.

And a big thank you goes out to my reviewers: Natalie at Time, Neil at Fortune, Genevieve at the New Yorker, Jose at the New York Times, Cornelius (sitting in for Maura) at the New York Times, and Sarah at Paris Match. Each of my reviewers gave a thoughtful and engaged look at my work, offering constructive advice on the stories I presented and good ideas for where to take them.

In addition to meeting with editors, I hadn’t expected how valuable the opportunity would be to meet with other photographers at a similar stage in their careers. The reviewees were split between photojournalists and fine art photographers. It was great to put faces to names among the photojournalists attending the event, and also to see what they were working on. Meeting the fine art photographers was like pulling back the curtain on a completely separate world of photography. The work they brought was phenomenal, and so much of it was completely unknown to me.