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.

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.

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.

A selection of my images from the Occupy Boston demonstrations has been featured on SocialDocumentary.net. I've gotten to know SDN founder Glenn Ruga since moving to Boston, where he's also the executive director of the Photographic Resource Center, and he thought the images would be a good fit for the site. You can see more images from Occupy Boston at my archive here: coverage of the Occupy Boston demonstrations

I recently photographed an intriguing story for the Wall Street Journal. The article focused on a small, family-run motel in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, that is the center of a legal battle using federal asset forfeiture laws to seize private property. The laws were intended to be used to fight drug cartels, but conservative legal activists are targeting the motel--the cheapest place to stay for miles around--as a piece of property linked to crimes. The police are called to the motel periodically, mostly domestic violence and small drug offenses, and the legal challenge would use those small crimes to seize the property. The motel owner, whose father built the place in the 1950s, now stands to lose his business, despite not being charged with any crimes. You can read the story here. My pictures were used in print (including on the front page!), in a slideshow accompanying the article online, and at the Wall Street Journal's photo blog Photo Journal (screenshot above). Thanks, as always, to Matt and the rest of the crew at the Journal's photo desk.