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…
Local musician Leslie Hunt recently hired me to make some promotional portraits for her. I was really excited to work with her and have always wanted to do a shoot with these giant, yellow doors near Calumet Photographic on Cherry Avenue. We had a great time shooting and I’m really looking forward to seeing how…
I had a great time last Saturday making portraits with Chicago singer Leslie Beukelman in the West Loop. We lucked out with some great light at sunset and took advantage of the empty streets. Leslie even sang a bit for me which was pretty wonderful! Leslie and her band will be playing the Double Door…
I recently did a volunteer photo shoot at the University of Chicago’s Children’s Hospital with the nonprofit organization Flashes of Hope. Their mission is to change the way children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses see themselves through photography and they also raise money for pediatric cancer research. I set up a backdrop and…
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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