After a fun afternoon shooting new promo pictures for Tara Holloway, we went down to Momo’s to catch Kacy Crowley’s set.  Incredible, moving music.  SXSW is over, and everyone’s a bit exhausted, but Kacy still brings her best to the stage.  Nice.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how the work of past generations has provided a foundation for what we do today.  The amazing work of artists like Alfred Cheney Johnston, however, are being rediscovered by photographers, like myself, looking to the past to see what was possible before conveniently available film and digital mediums. Johnston made [...]

When people are asked what they’d try to save first if their house was on fire, many inevitably say, family pictures.  There’s a reason for that.  They are often the most treasured things we own.  A connection to our past, who we are, who we were, and who was with us.

On Editorial Photographers, Doug Menuez, provides some advice for avoiding “being a burned out, bitter hack.” But by defining what you show based on what you truly are and what you want to do, you create a self-selection process: you are not for everyone. You are different. Be courageous enough to show that you see [...]