A few weeks ago I did my first shoot for Sydney Magazine covering the day in a life of a loaf of bread as it’s made by Sonoma Bakery every day. I was pretty excited for this story because I’m big into cooking and baking- I make my own beer and cheese and had been [...]
Tags: Food, Sydney Magazine
This month Chicago Magazine is celebrating their 40th year and the feature of the magazine is entitled “40 Reasons to Love Chicago.” I was asked to shoot the images for “Number 26: Because, in the country’s third-largest city, we maintain beehives and chicken coops.” While the trendiness of urban beekeeping and urban chicken coops has [...]
Tags: bees, chickens, editorial, Farms, Food, Portraits, urban
I’ve been doing quite a bit of new work with the Greater Chicago Food Depository since I shot a photo essay covering their efforts last fall in Time Out Chicago. They really liked the images that I shot for that project and they’ve asked me to be part of an ongoing series that they’re calling [...]
Tags: charity, Chicago, documentary, food depository
I just got back from a month in Australia. Every year I make it a point to leave Chicago for at least 3 weeks or so during the winter. The Chicago winters are cold, harsh and blue and by the time February rolls around everyone in the city is so depressed they act like they [...]
Nothing but driving. I had the best beef jerky I’d ever had in New Mexico- it was as thin as paper and covered in dried chillies. For 3 days it seems like I ate nothing but that green chili jerky and looked at mountains and desert. By the time I made it to L.A. I [...]
In November I went on a road trip and drove 7500 miles around the southwest and up through California. I picked up my friend Mike Renaud in San Francisco, we ate some raw oysters down at the wharf and then drove back through the high Sierras, the Nevada desert and the Rockies. We spent a [...]
Tags: Road Trip
