In the March 7, 2012 issue of Education Week, you can see a few of my pictures from coverage of the Boston-area education startup iCreateToEducate. The startup has developed a program using stop-motion animation via webcams to help students engage the subjects they're studying. While the initial goal of the project was to increase students' understanding of math and science, the project has expanded internationally and into lesson plans on all subjects. My contribution to the article involved portraits of the startup's founder, Melissa Pickering, at her office, and coverage of a small group of students using the iCreateToEducate system as part of an after school program at Josiah Quincy Upper School in Boston. Thanks to Nicole at Education Week for calling me for the shoots!

An image of Rick Santorum speaking to the media during the New Hampshire primary (some of which can be seen on my website here) was used to illustrate a story at the New Yorker website called Republicans vs. Science: Ranking the Candidates. You can see the rest of my campaign coverage at my archive. Thanks to Maria, Elissa, Whitney, and the rest at the New Yorker for picking up the picture.

Late last year, I spent a day inside a Sunny Delight plant for a Wall Street Journal story about companies using federal business improvement money to grow their business without creating new jobs. One of my images was used for both the print edition (page B1 of the Jan. 17, 2012, Wall Street Journal) and online. You can read the article at WSJ.com: Man vs. Machine, a Jobless Recovery You can see more images from the shoot in the Recent Work section of this website: Inside a Sunny Delight plant for the Wall Street Journal

A photo from a recent portrait shoot for MIT's News Office was featured on the homepage of MIT.edu on January 26, 2012. You can read the story here: Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time

A picture from a recent assignment for MIT News was used as the homepage for MIT on Dec. 12, 2011. The image teases a story on Dr. Antonio Torralba's work to develop image-interpreting artificial intelligence.

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.

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.

I've been photographing the Occupy Boston demonstrations on and off over the past few weeks, and Michael over BagNewsNotes was interested enough in my images to feature and discuss one such picture, of a protester holding the "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag while protesting outside one of downtown Boston's high-rises. The discussion hinges on what initially drew me to make the picture: the protester is using a flag most recently associated with the Tea Party movement and in so doing conflates big banks with oppressive government. You can see more images of the Occupy Boston protests at my archive: Coverage of Occupy Boston