Researcher Tom Lendvay for Rice University magazine
For the Spring 2025 issue of Rice Magazine, the alumni magazine of Rice University, I profiled physician and entrepreneur Thomas Lendvay and his wife Kathleeen Lendvay in their small startup offices/labs in Seattle, where they work use methylene blue dye in novel disinfection applications and treatments for human and pet GI distress using microbiome transplants.
A big thanks to Amy Kinkead for reaching out with the assignment and the great print display!
Wild mustang training and competition for High Country News
For my first assignment with High Country News, I spent a few days last year with people in western Washington state as they adopted, trained, and showed their wild mustangs as part of the Mustang Yearlings Washington Youth Mustang Madness competition. Writer Elizabeth Whitman pitched the piece and editor Bear Guerra got in touch wondering if I’d be interested in photographing the feature.
The story appeared in the April 2025 issue of High Country News (and online) and my pictures were on four pages of the story and the opener opposite the Table of Contents. It was great to finally work with a magazine I’ve admired for so long, and to do so on such a fascinating story.
Nobel laureate David Baker for Seattle Met
For my first assignment with Seattle Met, I photographed University of Washington scientist David Baker at his lab. About a month after the shoot, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computationally-designed proteins. The photo and interview were part of the Winter 2024 issue of the magazine.
A big thanks to Nate for the call!
Tearsheet: Cover of NYT Special Section on Pets
A recent assignment turned into what I believe is the largest photo I’ve ever had in a news publication, the full cover of the June 30, 2024, New York Times special section on Pets.
Big thanks to Anika for the call, and to Max (and Max’s owner Alyxx) for being so patient for the portraits.
Joe Biden image leads Atlantic coverage after the NH Primary
One of my photos from the 2020 NH Presidential Primary was licensed by The Atlantic to lead their coverage of the 2024 election after yesterday’s New Hampshire Primary voting. For an election that feels like a repeat of the last one, it seems fitting to use a picture from the last campaign, too!
You can read the article at The Atlantic’s site: The Least Objectionable Candidate
Thanks to Jehan and the rest of the team for thinking of my photo!
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao court appearance on WSJ front page
A week ago, a last-minute phone call ended up turning to my first cover assignment for the Wall Street Journal. The editor called at about 7:45am asking how soon I could be at Seattle’s federal courthouse downtown because cryptocurrency mogul Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance known as “CZ,” would be appearing in court for both him and the company to plead guilty of money-laundering charges. What we thought would be a very quick turnaround turned into a long stakeout waiting for any sign of the businessman and his team. A little after 1pm, CZ appeared and quickly made his way from the building entrance to a vehicle waiting to drive him away. I filed 3 photos and quickly heard back about excitement in the newsroom that it might be the next day’s cover picture. And it was!
View the tearsheet at right of the cover of the Nov. 22, 2023, edition of the Wall Street Journal.
Thanks to Alex for the call and support throughout the day!
Portraits of RF Kuang in the Guardian Saturday Magazine
I was very excited to see that one of my portraits of the novelist RF Kuang ended up being used as the full-page Books section front in the Guardian Saturday Magazine in the May 20, 2023 edition. It’s a rare treat to get such a huge layout.
Thanks to Lisa Foreman for the call and the design team at the Guardian for making the pictures sing!
Here’s the online version of the article, with a couple different pictures: Rebecca F Kuang: ‘Who has the right to tell a story? It’s the wrong question to ask’
Tearsheet: Adani image illustration for Forbes Daily Cover
It’s always so fun to see how pictures end up getting used. The team at Forbes just made a wonderful illustration using one of my photos of Asia’s (formerly) richest person Gautam Adani, which been getting a lot of play as the mogul has lost between $50 and $100 billion dollars over the last few weeks. The illustration accompanies one of their Daily Cover stories about the offshore companies run by Gautam Adani’s brother Vinod Adani. I love the concept and the design so much.
Credits:
Concept by Alicia Hallett-Chan; Illustration by Gracelynn Wan for Forbes; Photos by me (see original at left) and Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images.
Tearsheet: New York Times Business section front – employee turnover affects production
In the Jan. 3, 2023, edition of the New York Times, a couple of my photos from a recent assignment are the lede images on the Business section front. The story is about a 100+year-old factory that manufactures precise metal wire and pin pieces for the aerospace and medical industries, and the impact that high employee turnover has had on the factory’s production.
Thanks to Jeanne and Crista for the call for the assignment and the editing.
Tearsheet: The Hardest Part About Getting Older – portrait in the Wall Street Journal
I recently had the opportunity to photograph Sherry Mendelson and her husband to accompany a personal essay she wrote for the Wall Street Journal’s “Encore” section about retirement and aging. It’s a great piece that goes through her feelings on aging after recovering from knee replacement surgeries.
On the left is how the image appeared in print (I think it’s the biggest I’ve had a photo printed in the WSJ!) in the Nov. 17, 2022, edition of the paper, and below you can see a screenshot of the online version, where you can read the article.
Thanks to Johnny for the call and to Sherry and Fred for spending a little time with me on a nice afternoon.
