I don’t do album art very often anymore but I often do it for my wife, who is the Tania in the band Via Tania and now as The Tania and Jori Continents. The Tania and Jori Continents- Continent One is a product of her collaboration with Finnish DJ / producer Jori Hulkonnen which began a [...]
Tags: Album Art, Tania and Jori, Via Tania
I just took some new shots of Mike Kinsella for his band Owen. We decided that it should be a family portrait considering his newest addition to the family unit (pictured screaming). We’re now working on a music video for the first single of his next record.
Tags: Music, Outdoors, Owen, Polyvinyl Records
Spin Magazine called me up in January and asked me to take pictures of Yeasayer and MGMT playing at Schubas’s here in Chicago. I had just started to get into both bands and I really love MGMT’s Time to Pretend video so I was glad to meet them both. They were interesting guys- Ira from [...]
Tags: MGMT, Spin Magazine, Yeasayer
I was asked by Spin Magazine a week or so ago to go down to Indianapolis to take some portraits of the band Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s. The last time I went to Indianapolis was a year ago for a shoot for Rides Magazine of a custom car shop there called Killer [...]
Tags: Spin Magazine
I was asked by Chicago Social Magazine to shoot a bunch of portraits for a series called “Chicago Nightlife.” The Cool Kids were my favorite shot. While we were setting up we mainly talked about mopeds and our favorite breakfast cereals and action figures. They love breakfast cereal. Booberry, yo.
I shot this spread of Lupe Fiasco in his house out in the Chicago suburbs for Spin Magazine. It’s on newsstands this month. I had heard from a friend that Lupe was into martial arts so I asked him to do some of his Tai Chi while I took pictures of him in front of [...]
Tags: Hip Hop, Lupe Fiasco, Musician, Rap, Spin Magazine
