I've added a new story to my website. Fernald is the story of the 13 remaining residents at the Fernald Developmental Center in Waltham, Massachusetts, the nation's oldest institution for the disabled. Shot over a couple of days for the Wall Street Journal, the story was exceptionally challenging to photograph. As with any story, my goal is photograph subjects with dignity and humanity in spite of their circumstances. My thanks go out to the residents of Fernald and their guardians for giving me access to tell their story. Also, thanks to Matt and Kate at the Wall Street Journal for calling me for this story. Be sure to read Clare Ansberry's excellent piece about the facility and watch Araby Williams' accompanying short video, which also features a few of my pictures.

My work, China Everbright, was recently featured in a night of projections on the streets of Madrid, Spain, by FotoAplauso as part of the Fiesta de la Fotografía de BlankPaper 2013. From the images of the event shown on FotoAplauso's website, it looks like it was a beautiful and unique place to showcase photography, and I'm very excited to have been a part of it. Other photographers featured that night include Alex Webb, Alison V. Smith, Ed Panar, Laura Pannack, and others. Thanks to FotoAplauso for featuring my work among such an esteemed collection of photographers. I wish I could have been there in person!

A few months ago I had the pleasure of photographing Owen Nannarone at his home in Scituate, Mass., for Wired. Owen is 10 years old and makes a hobby of inventing things, most recently a golf tee that can sense the direction and velocity of a golf ball after it's been hit. He tinkers on projects in a workshop in his family's basement and repairs and repurposes electronics found in local dumps and recycling facilities. You can see the article and few more photos at Wired.com. More images are available at my photoshelter archive.

It's always hard to see how my work runs in the Chronicle of Higher Education because the publication isn't on any newsstands. Thankfully, my local library has a subscription, so I go by periodically to see which images make it into print. Above, you can see a couple portraits I shot for the paper, one (top) of SNHU president Paul LeBlanc and the other of Bryn Geffert, Librarian of the College at Amherst College. Thanks as always to Erica and the rest of the staff at the Chronicle for the assignments!

Excited to see that one of my pictures was printed big in French newspaper Libération last week. The picture, part of my work China Everbright, depicts a women in Yangshuo, China, butchering dogs for meat in a market. The photo was also recently awarded in the Photo Brigade's Documentary Photo Contest.

I'm very excited to announce that I will be participating in the first Young Media Professionals Exchange Program organized by the International Center for Journalists and Moscow Union of Journalists as part of a 2-year initiative between Russia and the US. The program is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Twelve journalists from Russia will come to the US to work for a variety of news organizations here, and I will be one of 12 from the US who will live in Moscow from Nov. 26 to Dec. 21 working for a variety of Russian news organizations. I'll be working for the ITAR-TASS Photo Agency, a Russian photo news service dating to 1926 when it was known as Photochronica TASS. As such, I won't be available for assignment work in the US until the end of December, but get in touch if you have any needs in Russia. I'll primarily be in Moscow. You can leave a voicemail or SMS at (917) 512-3473 or contact me by email.