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
Recently a good friend of mine bought a farm in the absolutely beautiful Driftless region of western Wisconsin. When we have the chance, my wife and I flee Chicago to the wild bucolic pastures and limestone bluffs of this hidden part of Wisconsin and do nothing but go trout fishing, read books and take frequent [...]
In this month’s issue of Chicago Magazine there’s a story that I shot on 6 natural / organic farmers that have been leading the trend towards local, healthy organic and natural foods in the Chicago area. I spent over a month last summer driving around Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin meeting the farmers, taking pictures of [...]
