I generate award-winning story ideas, commission photographers, produce shoots, and edit photography, audio, and video/moving picture components.
Projects I commissioned have been recognized by World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, American Photography, and the Society for Publication Designers.
Below are a selection of the works I produced and edited.
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- For this patriotic American teenager, joining the military isn’t a choice—it’s a calling. Awarded: Pictures of the Year; Online Daily Live, Visual Editing.
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- It is no surprise that these otherworldly plants, which arrived in the US in the 19th century as a brittle form of the Russian thistle, are nicknamed “wind witches.”
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- Women whose partners are locked up in Israeli prisons have figured out a new way to get pregnant—and it involves semen hidden in candy wrappers.
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- There’s only one place left in the country where gemstones are farmed. We meet some of the last American workers harvesting mother of pearl.
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- Spanish conquistadors hungered for gold, and were willing to topple the Inca emperors to possess it. But there was something the Incas themselves may have valued even more: light.
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- As soon as they turn 18, members of North Carolina’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians become eligible to receive a check that can reach into the six figures. What do you do when you’re young and suddenly flush with cash?
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- Labor and childbirth are still mysteries to science, but that doesn’t mean we can’t try to come up with our own explanations.
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- For more than 63 years, Disneyland has proclaimed itself the “happiest place on earth.” But a recent survey revealed that one in ten of its employees has experienced homelessness while working there. How the world’s most famous theme park became a distinctly unmagical place to make a living.
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- In 2017, a massive blaze ripped through Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, stranding hikers and driving people from their homes. One year later, the earth is recovering, but the fire still haunts locals’ dreams.
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- A love letter to some of the most photographed (and loudest) water in the nation.
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- Her father always fished, as did his father before him. Now Corey Wheeler Forrest is at the wheel, as one of the few women to haul in the traps off the coast of New England.
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- The relationship between humans and parrots can be surprisingly profound.
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- A furry photographer travels to California to meet his fursona, a white-tailed deer named Atmus.
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- It was easy to become a member of a tight-knit flat-track motorcycle racing community. Getting out of it, however, almost cost this photographer his life.
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- On other planets, the aliens are… us.
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- Human-induced climate change is causing the disappearance of Bangladesh’s important body of water, and its future remains in doubt.
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- Happiness is a warm rescue puppy.
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- In Silicon Valley, one of the wealthiest regions in the United States, some people have been forced out of permanent housing and into their RVs. This past summer, we met ten of the area’s mobile residents.
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- The world of Native American high school mascots.
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- Inside a weird and wildly successful conservation program that’s being forced to fly the coop.
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- For almost 40 years, photographer Maxi Cohen has been traveling the world, documenting the goings-on in one of the most vibrant, communal, and uniquely female spaces: the public women’s restroom.
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- A series of photos, journal entries and drawings that document the dramatic yet also totally ordinary adolescence of a loyal friend and survivor named Hannah.
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- The secret signs of New York City’s subway conductors.
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- War is a dirty, dirty business. Beyond the damage inflicted on the battlefields themselves, every part of a military operation marks the earth. From munitions factories to massive supply lines, collateral costs abound.
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- On Memorial Day weekend, Mark Peterson visited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to document the pilgrimage of tourists and self-professed patriots to the site of the 1863 Civil War conflict that killed or wounded over 51,000 people. In some ways, that war still isn’t over.
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- While working on assignment for The Beijing News covering China’s legislature and advisory bodies,, Meng Han was drawn to making images of the supporting roles played by the women at these meetings.
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- A photo essay documenting life on one of China’s border with Russia in the Lazo region, where two rivers, the Amur (or Heilong, in Chinese) and Ussuri (Wusuli), form the borders of the northeastern-most corner of China’s Heilongjiang province.
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- In quotidian room settings in ordinary Chinese people’s homes, we get a sense of how Mao’s ghost still lingers over Chinese life and society.
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