Our Lady of the Blessed Nacho Joint, Upper King Street, Charleston, 2005. A vision of a short-lived, funky era in a city paved over by gentrification.
My first newspaper had a full-time staff photographer who was very good at his job. But a funny thing happened when the editors sat down to compile our “Year in Review” photo section: Roughly two-thirds of the photos they selected were mine.
I’m a competent visual journalist who understands how words and images work together to tell a story effectively. Need a fashion spread? Wrong guy. Need simple, solid, well-composed photos, digitally processed and delivered with all the right information, on your deadline? I can do that. Here’s a taste.
Middleton Plantation overlooking the Ashley at sunset during the 2005 Spoleto Finale.
Here's a fun assignment: Cover a mass casting call in a room with poor lighting, where you can't use flash and you don't want to disturb the actors or the directors. I like this one not for its beauty, but for what it communicates about that story under extremely limiting conditions.
Spoleto festival-goers encountered a somber reminder of America's disasterous adventure in Iraq on Memorial Day, 2005, when protestors at Marion Square erected one flag for every American service-member killed in the invasion and occupation. This photo was later used as a book cover.
For my profile of soldier and community activist Arthur "Pete" Lawrence, the two of us spent a winter day driving around the remote Santee community where he spent his boyhood. I took this shot of Pete at the little AME church his family built, and later noticed that church and man each seemed to say something about the other.
An assignment for a brief item in SAILING magazine. Winter light is harsh, but it's also cold and revealing.
