I thought I would update you all on why you won’t see any international reportage coming from me for the next handful of months. 
My wife and I are expecting!
That’s right, we are expecting our first baby to arrive at the end of September! With this awesome news, I’m going to be keeping my photojournalism efforts on the [...]

Lake Ediza, Ansel Adams Wilderness, California
This weeks image retrospective comes come domestically. After spending a month in DR Congo, my wife and I needed to get some peace and quite time and went backpacking in one of my favorite regions in the California Sierra Nevada. I think this image represents the antithesis of DR Congo. [...]

This Sunday’s New York Times will feature a photo of my dad that I shot when we were together in Jordan. We had such a good trip and it makes it that much better to have it shown in the NY Times travel section.
Click here to see the NY Times ‘Why We Travel’ slide show.

Obviously, if I’m going to do some sort of product review on this blog, it’s going to be somehow camera or industry related. Well, as far as I’m concerned, the Kindle is.
Part of the industry and being a photojournalist requires extensive amounts of reading. It’s not enough to simply know how to work a camera, [...]

Masisi, North Kivu, DR Congo
Venturing out into rebel this controlled region, where thousands upon thousands have been displaced and thousands more have been killed, the last thing I expected to find in this war-torn land was a thriving cheese-making facility. High in the mountains, past a dozen checkpoints with AK wielding, glassy-eyed, para-military, I came [...]

Sac le Coeur, Paris, France
This weeks Image Retrospective comes from Paris, France. This last spring, as I was on my way to Syria, I was able to spend a week in Paris with my wife. The week that I needed to go, coincided with her spring break from Hopkins - it was perfect timing. Even [...]

Extremely random selection, I thought I would still post a few images from the Independence Day holiday weekend. We spent it with our neighbors and family.

Sudanese refugee camp, Touloum, Chad
While on assignment in Chad I spent a lot of time in the Sudanese refugee camps that dot the volatile boarder region. It’s pretty tough to get out to this region, even for tough-to-get-to region standards. It’s not just a matter of transportation or costs, it’s a matter of permission and [...]