Thanks to Johnny and the team at MSNBC.com for calling me for this assignment--it was a tough one, but there were a lot of good moments. I followed Shenna Bellows to Portland, Falmouth, Brunswick, and Kittery, Maine, as she campaigned at town Democratic caucuses for her US Senate campaign. Bellows is trying to unseat the incumbent Republican Susan Collins (whom, coincidentally, I met while photographing behind the scenes of Scott Brown's Senate campaign).

You can read Meredith Clark's story on MSNBC.com, which includes a few of my pictures from the day: A Democratic Senate candidate makes waves in Maine.

Three images from my work China Everbright will be exhibited for the month at Gallery W at the Whitney Center for the Arts in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. There is a preview tonight, March 7, 2014, during the First Friday Arts Walk, and the opening reception, which I plan to attend, is on March 15, 2014, from 4-7pm. The show is curated by Nayana Glazier.

The gallery is located at 42 Wendell Ave. Pittsfield MA 01201. Hope to see you there!

Wired's Raw File blog has published a few of my pictures of Russian journalists at work alongside a discussion of the state of journalism in Russia. You can see the story on this website or a wider edit at my archive. Thanks to Alan and Pete for getting the work on the Wired blog.

Boston hosts the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward Festival, an annual event featuring a variety of speakers and exhibitions from the photography world. I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at an evening of slideshow presentations put on by the Boreal Collective. I'll be sharing work from my ongoing look at cultural and economic changes in Russia, alongside other presenters: Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Brett Gundlock, Ian Willms, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Laurence Butet-Roch, Mauricio Palos, and Tony Luong.

The event takes place on April 30, 2014, from 7 to 9pm in the Paris Room at Petit Robert Central at 101 Arch Street, Boston MA 02110 (Entrance at 34 Summer St.).

I spent a couple of very cold days at Boston College right before and after the new year working on a project detailing the college's involvement in the Belfast Project, a secret oral history of Northern Ireland's Troubles. The Belfast Project collected interviews with people directly involved in bombings and other violence in the decades-long struggle in Northern Ireland with the promise to participants that even the existence of these interviews would not be made known until after they died. About 10 years ago, authorities learned of the project and it became a focal point of diplomatic negotiations between the US and the UK, leading ultimately to legal requests for Boston College to divulge the contents of these interviews for a 40-year-old murder investigation. Boston College eventually gave some of the tapes to authorities, though not all have been happy with the college's actions. The case has interesting implications for academic and journalistic privelege.

You can read the fascinating article (and see a few more of my pictures) at the Chronicle of Higher Education website: Secrets from Belfast.

I'm happy to announce that I received an honorable mention in the Boston Press Photographers Association pictorial category for my image (at left) of the Didcot Power Station in England. Congratulations to all the other winners. You can see the rest of the awarded work here, including a lot of strong work from during and after the Boston Marathon bombings.