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.

Jim Gilmore campaign for Time magazine


A big thank you to Paul at Time magazine for his continued support for my work throughout the New Hampshire primary. He hired me for the final two days of the primary to follow around last-place Republican nominee Jim Gilmore, the former governor of Virginia. It was a quirky but fascinating story, and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

You can see the full story on Time's website: Finishing Last: A Day in the Life of Presidential Candidate Jim Gilmore.

NH Primary portfolio in The New Republic (March 2016)


A big thank you to Stephanie and the rest of the team at The New Republic for publishing a portfolio of my project on the New Hampshire primary in the March issue of the magazine. You can see the 6 pages above.

The magazine also did a great web piece with quite a few more pictures and a great layout.

New Hampshire Primary coverage for Bloomberg Businessweek


On Feb. 2, I spent a day for Bloomberg Businessweek covering the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Chris Christie, as they traveled around New Hampshire. The images from the assignment appeared in the Feb. 8-14, 2016, issue. Businessweek used five images from the day; four on a spread on pages 24 and 25 (top), and one on the People/Companies Index on page 4 (left). The pictures accompanied an infographic on campaign advertising spending and a short article about Christie's efforts to save Atlantic City, though my images don't appear online.

A little behind the scenes info: I had just a quick stop at the Christie event that day and took a total of 30 pictures. I could have done that portion of the shoot on a single roll of film with room to spare!

Thanks to Jane for the great assignment! I'd been hoping to work with Businessweek on the campaign at some point during the NH primary, and I'm glad it finally came together.

China Wal-Mart images published by Internazionale (Italy)


Thanks to Melissa at Italy's Internazionale for contacting me to use a couple of my old pictures of Wal-Mart in China. If I remember correctly, the image from the second spread (at left) was taken during one of my first few weeks in China. Always nice to find new ways to use old work!