Samara Yoga

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Here are a few images from a shoot I did for Samara Yoga in Davis Square earlier this summer. I love going to their yoga classes and the studio has a really wonderful atmosphere, so it was great to be able to do a shoot for them.

Summer Learning Project II

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This past summer I was really glad to get a chance to work with Boston After School & Beyond again to document some of their Summer Learning Project sites around the Boston area. The Summer Learning Project is a summer education program where students spend the mornings on academics and the afternoons on "enrichment activities", which can be anything from swimming, to gardening, to visiting animals at the zoo.

'Human Nature' Screening

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I'm excited that my short documentary film on Plum Island 'Human Nature' is finally complete and will be screening at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival this weekend.
The film is 15 minutes long and is screening Sunday, September 20th at 11:30 AM in The Screening Room, 82 State St, Newburyport, MA 01950. It will be screened along with another short film. You can get tickets here.

Creating this film was a long difficult process for me as the story and issue are pretty complex and I was trying my best to accurately represent all sides. I feel good about the results though, and I'm looking forward to sharing the final product with the Newburyport community!

Synopsis: Plum Island is a barrier beach on the north shore of Massachusetts that people have inhabited, in one form or another, since the early 1800s. In the past few decades, people have built more conventional homes where dune shacks once stood. In 2013, a series of winter storms caused enough erosion damage to destroy six of these homes. Many outsiders see the people on the island as wealthy homeowners who built too close to the water and got what they deserved, but the truth is much more complicated.

The Coast of Maine

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I love traveling along the coast of Maine. The air feels fresher and it's wonderful to just roam around and make pictures. Here are a few images from earlier in the summer when I took some time to wander around Castine after shooting a wedding.

The Rule Keeper

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I'm pleased to be able to post the final installment in a series of videos and photos I produced on Boston University Law professors and their passions outside the law. You can view the rest of the series here. For each professor I produced a portrait as well as a video about them and why they're passionate about their hobby. It was interesting to see how many of their hobbies connected to their work as law professors.

BU Law Professor Jack Beermann loves rules. "I always have two pamphlets with me whenever I'm traveling," he says. "I love to read the Constitution and I love to read the Baseball Rule Book. Both of them are very similar experiences to me. You're always finding some new nuance or some new phrase that you never really focused on before and trying to figure out what it means." When he's not teaching administrative law, you can often find Beermann umpiring little league. "I think, other than my house I've probably spent more time at a baseball field than anywhere else in the world," he says.

Micro-lending Portraits

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While traveling in Nicaragua recently, I was fortunate to be able to do some work for a micro-lending non-profit there called People Helping People Global. They provide loans to small business owners in both Granada and Matagalpa and many of their borrowers are women. We traveled around to visit several borrowers in their homes and workplaces.

Happy New Year!

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I decided to start the year off with a trip to Cadillac Mountain in Maine to catch the first the sunrise on the continental U.S. of 2015.

We did a dry run the day before to check out the trail and see the sunset.

On the morning of the first, we were joined by many other people who hunkered down in between the rocks to wait for the sunrise.

With temperatures around 15 degrees Fahrenheit and a windchill of 18 below it was a long wait...

Summer Learning Project

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This past summer I spent two weeks photographing Boston After School and Beyond's Summer Learning Project, a summer education program where students spend the morning on academics and the afternoon on a variety of activities. The program has 18 different sites around Boston and I bounced around to six of them trying to show off the unique characteristics of each.

Newburyport Documentary Film Festival

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I was really fortunate to be able to screen a short clip from my Plum Island documentary (which is still a work in progress) at the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival this past weekend. The screening was part of a special section of the festival for works in progress and was screened alongside a film on Henry Beston. It was great to be able to show something to an audience and receive feedback and after a year and a half of working on this project it's definitely given me an extra boost of motivation to see the project through to the end.

Earth Port Film Festival

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A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to have a film screened at the Earth Port Film Festival in Newburyport, MA. The film, Rise and Fall, is one that I produced along with Lindsey Topham and Sarah Ganzhorn for the International Documentary Challenge about a year ago and it deals with the erosion issues on Plum Island, MA. It was great to be able to participate in the festival and meet other filmmakers who were also interested in highlighting environmental issues. You can watch interviews with me and some of the other filmmakers here: http://www.earthportfilm.org/ (start at 7:18 for my interview).

Our film 'Showered' will be screened at Hot Docs!

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A few weeks ago I was on a team that participated in the International Documentary Challenge, a film competition where participants have to research, shoot and edit a short film within five days. This year's theme was "behind the curtain" which lead us to choose an interesting topic: we decided to interview people in the shower. Recently, we found out that our film made it into the top 12 for the competition and will be screened at the Hot Docs documentary film festival in Toronto on May 1st!

Unfortunately, it's not possible for us to publish the film online until it premieres at Hot Docs but you can watch the behind the scenes video and vote for our film in the Audience Awards!

Weekend Warrior

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I'm excited to finally be able to post a video that I've been working on for BU Law since last summer. Most of the video was completed months ago, but unfortunately, there were a couple shots I needed that had to wait until this semester. This piece is part of a larger series that I'm working on for BU Law about professors and their passions outside the law. I love doing these kinds of pieces and am really looking forward to the rest of the series. Next up we have a classical guitarist, a figure skater and maybe a little league umpire...

 

Weekend Warrior: Gerry Leonard on life, liberty and the pushing the limit

BU Law professor Gerry Leonard loves cycling. Actually, he’s obsessed with cycling. In the summers, he’ll bike 17 miles from his home in Natick to come into work at BU Law, and his infatuation with European cycling is such that the topic has been known to come up in class or even make appearances on final exams...

Chinese New Year

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The Chinese New Year Lion Dance Parade is something I always have fun shooting. It's loud and chaotic, but everyone's having a good time and there are always photos to be made...