8 seconds at low tide in Big Pine Key, Florida Keys
I had a wonderfully restive long weekend in the Florida Keys, doing some swimming and snorkeling with my wife, but mostly just hanging out and marveling at the water color and assorted critters (land crabs, lizards!) that call this strangely un-American-feeling place home.
At the risk of creating some redundancy of linking, I was happy to see the NYT Lens blog link to my Detroit Schools slideshow.
Lastly, my photo of Jared Cohen at the State Department was published in BusinessWeek. Due to security restrictions, I was only allowed to set up in his office, which meant shooting two setups in an approximately 10x10 space that also held his desk, all of my equipment, and three walls covered in photos and documents that couldn't be in the background of any of the photos. This all made for an interesting shoot and it was only Cohen's willingness to climb over a couple of Pelican cases and a light stand bag that allowed me to shoot the second setup.
Jared Cohen for BusinessWeek
Last Tuesday morning as I was coming out of a hearing, I got a call from an editor at The Wall Street Journal asking about my availability for a shoot that afternoon. A reporter had been granted a twenty minute interview with the President and I was along to document the interview taking place in the Green Room at the White House.
Having covered parts of the Obama campaign and presidency, an audience with the President wasn't anything especially new, except that this time I would be the only photographer in the room (with the exception of White House photo staffer Laurence Jackson) and be able to move around as much as I'd like. The interview went incredibly quickly and soon I was rushing to the press room to file the images.
Here a short video with all 366 images from the shoot.
I recently put together a new mailer with some of my work I shot in March, at the Reconciliation Forum in Washington, DC. Over the course of two days, I had the honor of photographing people like Desmond Tutu, Richard Dreyfus, James Nachtwey and of course, Mikhail Gorbachev. Here's a quick video of the mailer.
Here are those 90 seconds of shooting that gave the promo its name. Listen for his handler at the end (a very large Russian man) telling me, "You have enough material." Apologies for the quality of this, it was shot on an old Fuji P&S.
the results:
