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Urban Velo Magazine Shoot

Recently found out that a shoot I did for the Chicago bike magazine Urban Velo was used at the cover of their current issue. It was a great story to work on: a bicycle repair shop inside a hardware store in one of my favorite Chicago neighborhoods. John Stallworth started the Englewood store, John’s Hardware, 43 years…

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Ronald Novotny: The Golf Ball Man

I was really excited when I got the assignment to photograph Ronald Novotny in his Morton Grove home. Novotny, a retired factory worker, collects golf balls from courses in the Chicago suburbs and has thousands of them throughout his home which he later sells. He started collecting in 1952 with his father and has kept…

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A Chicago Force

I recently started a new project with the Chicago Force, an all women’s tackle football team here in the city. Last Saturday after work, I lugged my tired self to their first home game of the season at North Park University. They played an amazing game and crushed the Wisconsin Warriors. Spent half of my…

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