Last week, I spent a couple hours backstage and ringside for a New York Times profile of the current World Wrestling Entertainment Champion Jinder Mahal. Thanks to Ariana for the assignment and for the great play in the 19 August 2017 New York Times Arts Section. I believe this is the largest color picture I've had in the Times: one full-frame six-column picture on the section front, another six-column cropped image inside, and then a handful of other images to round out the print edition.

You can read the article and see a few more pictures here:How Jinder Mahal, an Indian WWE Star, Is Turning Up the Heat.

In July 2017 I traveled to Yellowstone for a short vacation. Before leaving, David at Topic (with whom I'd previously worked when he was at the Asia Society) got in touch about doing a piece for their ongoing "Reaction" series of people looking at something extraordinary. We came up with the idea to photograph people looking at Old Faithful, and the end result has now been published at Topic. It was a fun way to spend an afternoon, despite the heat and difficulty getting in front of crowds anxious to get a view of the geyser.

You can see more images from the shoot at Topic's website: "Staring Into the Face of Old Faithful."

I'll be in Washington state and Montana from June 29 to July 17, 2017, with some availability for assignments. Approximate dates are June 29 - July 5 in Richland, WA, and July 5 - 15 in Montana, including Yellowstone, Missoula, Great Falls, and points in between.

The image above is from May 2017 near Swan Lake, MT.

Three of my images have been "Selected" as winners in the American Photography 33 competition and will be included in the organization's annual book of what they call "the best original, thoughtful and compelling pictures" of 2016. The images selected were part of my ongoing coverage of the 2016 presidential election. The first, above, was from an assignment in Florida in October 2016 for German newsmagazine Stern, assigned by their New York photo editor Angelika Hala. The second image included was from an assignment to cover what was supposed to be an exclusive interview with Donald Trump in advance of the New Hampshire Primary for the Wall Street Journal, assigned by photo editor Alexander Cohn. The third, of a cake at Trump's election night party, was from an assignment by Bloomberg Businessweek editor Clinton Cargill, with support from Bloomberg editor Eugene Reznick (with whom I worked on the Bus to November project last year).

The jury for this year's competition included: Kate Bubacz, Senior Photo Editor, BuzzFeed News; Jeff Campagna, Photo Editor, Smithsonian Magazine; Bailey Franklin, Director of Photography, Variety; Amy Kellner, Associate Photo Editor, The New York Times Magazine; Christopher Martinez, Digital Creative Director, VP, Barneys New York; Michele Outland, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Gather Journal; and Patrick Witty, Deputy Director of Photography, National Geographic.

The images can also be seen on the American Photography 33 website.

Thanks to both the jury and especially to Angelika, Alex, Clinton, and Eugene, for assigning me for these stories.

Last year, one of my pictures, of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, was included in the book, and in 2014, one of my pictures, again from a Wall Street Journal assignment, was "chosen" for online slideshow.