The past few weeks have brought the first taste of the heavy, wilting heat that we're in for this summer. Charlene and I spent this weekend screening (and plexiglass-ing) our side porch with dreams of summer barbecues and mint juleps while we watch the sun set.
The past month brought some new clients and a wonderful trip out west. While in Portland, I shot a quick travel feature for the Boston Globe that ran on Saturday and can be seen here. After a few days visiting our old haunts including dinner at the best thai place ever, we headed up to Vancouver, BC to see my cousin Jon get married on a beautiful, sunny afternoon.
I came home to a new tearsheet from The Scientist Magazine
Sean Eddy for The Scientist Magazine
Yesterday, I stopped by Borders and saw that the David Iglesias book is finally out (I talked about some of the challenges of this shoot here).
The next month will bring the resumption of a personal project I've been researching in New Jersey and new portfolio meetings in DC and New York. Also keep an eye out in your mail box for a new postcard mailer to go out next week.
Three months of trips took me through some of the coldest weather I've ever experienced and some of the most interesting interviews I've ever heard. The Guardian Weekend Magazine sent myself and reporter Ed Pilkington to meet some of the presidential candidates who have run and lost over the past thirty years. We went to Mitchell, South Dakota on a frigid January day to interview and photograph George McGovern. Continuing the pattern of visiting cold places during winter, we went to Minneapolis, MN for Walter Mondale and Boston for Dukakis.
The range of experiences shared during the interviews that Ed skillfully conducted gave us a fascinating narrative of what it's like to go through such an arduous, grueling process for months and months and to finish in second place. Quoting from Ed's article, I think Mondale touched on a sense of weariness that I saw in all of the candidates when he said, "....I think it took something out of me. I don't have a clinical explanation, but an edge was gone and I never got it back."
