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 photos from Aceh province, January 2009In January '09, I accompanied Dr. Brian McAdoo of Vassar College and Offshore Geohazards to northern Sumatra and Simeulue Island, Indonesia, to document his team's research on tsunamis and disaster mitigation, and interview local people about their experiences four years after the Indian Ocean Tsunami struck the region. |
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 photos from Turkey on assignment for GOOD Magazine, fall 2008In September '08, I traveled through eastern Turkey from Mount Ararat southwest to Batman with a Turkish-American friend and her family while writing an online series of photo-illustrated entries for GOOD Magazine online, specifically focused on the impending completion of the Ilisu dam. The new reservoir will span 125 square miles of Anatolia, displace a large number of Kurdish residents and drown important archaeological sites like the 6-century-old city of Hasankeyf. Here are photos from those travels. Read the Ilisu series. |
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 photos from the Gulf Coast, fall 2005In September '05, I accompanied a research team of geologists and civil engineers along the coast from Pensacola through Alabama to Biloxi, Mississippi. I returned in mid-October, this time traveling between New Orleans and LaPlace, Louisiana where I interviewed students of all ages and spent time at a community kitchen/camp on the fringe of the French Quarter. Some images from each trip appear here. Some are part of the Waves of Devastation, Waves of Hope group photographic exhibition. More press here |
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La Vida Callejera is a collection of photographs centered around the underground economy of the callejero (someone who works in the street as a musician, artisan, performer, or otherwise, to make a living) throughout Spain. The images were compiled in the fall of 2004 in Granada, Cordoba, and Sevilla, and then in Barcelona, San Sebastian, Bilbao and Santiago de Compostela during a hitch-hiking trip across Spain's north coast. They were exhibited in a solo show at Vassar College. |
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Raymond Strout is a carpenter, bloodworm digger, blueberry harvester, and the best friend and neighbor of Jerry Blackburn in Cherryfield, Maine. During my time at the Salt Institute photographing Jerry, Ray hosted me as an overnight guest many times, shared his moose stew, showed off his defunct boat collection, took me to see his father's grave, and brought me scavenging for scrap rope on Downeast's rocky beaches. He had his second stroke that spring and now lives in a nursing home. |
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"Junk King Jerry and the Downeast Museum Dream" follows a junk collector in Washington County, Maine—Jerry Blackburn—and his dream to start the Downeast Museum of Natural History in his hometown of Cherryfield. The museum would serve to showcase the "regional artifacts" he has dedicated the last twenty years of his life to amassing in a location other than his living room. My work with Jerry was done in conjunction with a freelance radio producer and Salt alum Joshua Gleason. His story "The Junk King" has aired on Maine National Public Radio and Weekend America. Hear it here. |
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"Life Lessons in the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital Classroom" depicts Elizabeth Papps, her responsiblities and goals as a teacher of injured and chronically ill children, and the inspiring relationships she has formed with some of her "frequent flyer" students in her five years at Portland's Maine Medical Center, like life-long spina bifida patient Dennis Quigley, who had, at age 13, visited the Barbara Bush hospital more than 80 times. |
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School for International Training ISP, fall 2004
images of a Downeaster, spring 2006
Jerry Blackburn's museum dream, spring 2006
the story of a hospital schoolteacher, spring 2006