Interview and images in British Journal of Photography


A big thank you to Simon Bainbridge and the rest of the crew at the British Journal of Photography for featuring my work on the 2016 election in the November issue of the British Journal of Photography. There were a handful of images published across 5 pages (seen here) in the print edition, and more online.

I haven't seen the print copy in person yet, so I haven't gotten to see the other half of the feature with Greg Miller's beautiful project "We The People," but you can check it out on his website or the BJP site.

Four images included in Time’s “82 Most Unforgettable Photos From the Election”


Four of my photos from 2015 and 2016 election coverage have been included in Time magazine's "82 Most Unforgettable Photos From the Election." The selected images include Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump (from an assignment for the Wall Street Journal), Rand Paul, and Jim Gilmore (from an assignment for Time).

Special thanks to Time editors Paul Moakley, Chelsea Matiash, and Olivier Laurent, for their support throughout the campaign. Being included among such other stellar work in this gallery is like icing on the cake!

Election night with Donald Trump for Bloomberg Businessweek


I spent election night covering Donald Trump's rally for Bloomberg Businessweek. You can see the results in these spreads from the Nov. 14-20, 2016, issue of the magazine. There are additional images on the Bloomberg website: Inside Election Night at the Trump and Clinton Parties: Photos of shocked joy and stunned silence as the results came in.

What we know now that I didn't know then, was that Trump would win the election that night. The plan from the get-go was to have two covers, one from Clinton's rally and one from Trump's, each focusing on supporters. We thought my coverage would be of disappointed Trump supporters, but halfway through that really long night, it became apparent that I was covering a victory celebration. My friend Jonno Rattman, a photographer you should check out if you don't know his work, covered Clinton, and it was an honor to share the election night coverage with him. Check out the two covers side-by-side. His pictures are also seen next to mine in two of the 4-image spreads included here, and he had a couple of additional double-trucks not shown here.

A huge thank you to Clinton and Eugene (with whom I worked on the Bus to November project), and the wonderful designers and other editors at Bloomberg Businessweek. They had a great plan for the coverage going into the final day, and then when it all changed at the last minute, provided great support throughout the night and then made a magazine in a few hours on Nov. 9. I so rarely get to see the inner workings of editorial publishing up close, but in this case it was impressive to see it all come together.

Tearsheet: Guns in Time magazine


It's always nice to find a new use for an old picture. In this case, Chelsea from Time needed images of guns for a feature called "The New Politics of Gun Control" (← paywalled). I had some images from a gun range that I photographed during the 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary earlier this year, and it ended up as an almost double-truck in the Sept. 12-19, 2016, issue of Time.

I had a funny way of first seeing the image in print: I was getting on a plane in Zagreb, Croatia, after participating in the Organ Vida Festival, and had been bumped to first class for some reason. The flight attendant asked if I wanted any newspapers, but only had Croatian newspapers. I asked if there were any English-language publications and she disappeared to check. She came back with the International New York Times and a copy of Time magazine containing this story and my picture. I'm not sure I've ever been handed a copy of one of my own pictures quite like that.

Thanks to Chelsea and Croatia Airlines!

Across the country in 2 weeks for Bloomberg’s Bus to November project


From Aug. 1 to 14, 2016, I traveled with Bloomberg reporter Esmé E. Deprez, I traveled by Greyhound bus from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, speaking to people we met along the way about their lives and the upcoming election. The final dispatch posted on Friday, and you can scroll down for the rest of our work over the trip. You can also see me in a short video by Griffin Hammon that aired on Bloomberg/MSNBC's With All Due Respect on Aug. 12, 2016 (starting at about 39:30; also available on youtube and embedded below).

I've never done anything quite like this, so it was a bit of an experiment. I'm particularly proud of the work I did and also that it accompanies such excellent reporting by Esmé. The work will hopefully serve as an addition to the work I've been doing on the 2016 election, broadening it's scope to look at voters across the country. For more photos, especially take a look at our post from Denver featuring short interviews and portraits I did with voters in Lexington, Nebraska, and on the bus from there to Denver, or the post from Las Vegas.

Tearsheet: White House Correspondents Association Dinner after party for MSNBC


Last week, I traveled to Washington DC to cover MSNBC's White House Correspondents Association Dinner after party for MSNBC. It was a surreal and exhausting experience, but I'm really happy with the edit that MSNBC published. Thanks to Amy and Rebecca and the rest of the MSNBC photo team for the assignment and edit, and to Diana and Rachel and the rest of the crew on the ground that made access to the party a breeze.

You can see the pictures online here: The glitz and glamour of the White House Correspondents' Dinner

And here's a 360 moving still image of me at the end of the night (about 3:30am) and thinking about the prospect of editing pictures to get published a few hours later.

Globe and Mail publishes more Trump images


Thanks again to Rachel at the Globe and Mail for picking up a few of my images of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for a weekend double-truck in Canada's The Globe and Mail newspaper in the April 2, 2016, edition. I just love the way this spread came out. The pictures accompany a phenomenal article by Cathal Kelly: Through the looking glass: the many faces of Trump and his fans.

The paper has printed some of my images for previous pieces on Hillary Clinton and Trump.

Newsweek publishes images of MIT Space Propulsion Laboratory nanosatellites


Thanks again to Shaminder at Newsweek for picking up a couple pictures for the March 18, 2016, issue of the magazine. This time, it was a couple pictures of the MIT's Space Propulsion Laboratory's nanosatellites, originally shot for the Chronicle of Higher Education. It's always nice to find a new use for old pictures, especially in a big spread like above. The two pictures were also used online alongside the article, Cubesats Will Take Over the Skies, Thanks to Electric Propulsion.

And here's something funny about the big picture accompanying the online article. I needed something common and small to show the scale of the device and there wasn't anything in the lab that really seemed right. So I dug into my pocket and found a quarter and my house key, figuring those would both give a recognizable sense of scale. That's how my house key ended up being in a picture published by Newsweek.

Newsweek also recently published a handful of pictures from my project on the New Hampshire presidential primary.

The Globe and Mail publishes Hillary Clinton images


The Globe and Mail have again printed a big spread of my political pictures in their weekend edition. Last time, it was focused on Trump's campaign, and this time it's all Hillary Clinton. The pictures appeared in the March 5, 2016, edition of the paper. Thanks again to Rachel at the Globe and Mail for such a great spread!

You can read the article and see my pictures online here: The Hillary paradox: How American women are struggling over feminism and Clintonism

Newsweek publishes Clinton and Sanders images


Thanks to Shaminder and the rest of the crew at Newsweek for picking up a handful of my pictures from the New Hampshire primary of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. The magazine published images across 8 pages in the Feb. 26, 2016, to accompany an article comparing the two candidates' careers in the Senate. You can find the article online: Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are more alike than you think.

Also cool to share the article online with John Tully, who had a picture on the Table of Contents of the issue, as well.

An odd side-note: I've taken so many pictures for this project, I had no memory of the lead image seen above of Clinton until Shaminder requested the image.