I’ve been spending a fair amount of time in prisons lately, just visiting for work luckily.  Two projects have publication dates in Feb, the first is for Esquire UK and the other for Texas Monthly.  I can’t go into detail now, I’ll let the magazines do that, but both stories are on high profile convicts inside the Texas Department of Justice.  So, while I’m waiting for those to come out, here are two outtakes from each shoot of the visitors waiting area.

Few things - except, perhaps, Apple computer products and Moleskine notebooks - have been embraced by designers of all stripes so quickly and universally as PechaKucha Night has. -Architect Magazine

I was recently invited by DJ Stout of Pentagram Design to speak at the PechaKucha event held in Austin this Thursday.  Click here for event details.  It is a huge honor to be one of 10 presenters and only 2  photographers at the event.  It’s also a little overwhelming and pretty exciting to address the creative community that has embraced me after only living here for a few years.  I’m taking this great opportunity to speak on the influences that have driven the change in direction my work took after my move from Los Angeles.  Included below is one of those photographs.

A huge thank you to DJ for including me in this, to PechKucha, and to Austin.

The German publishing company Gestalten has just included two of my portraits in their new book Hair’em Scare’em.  The book is filled with photography, design, and illustration that is dedicated to or inspired by hair.  Kind of weird but also really cool.

A bit of news to fill everyone in on. I have been invited to participate in Subtext Gallery’s upcoming Happenstance exhibition and charity auction.  Click here to read more about the show and be sure to attend if you are in the San Diego area.  The piece I will be showing was a collaboration with fate on multiple occasions.  The bird flying into the negative space of the frame was pure luck, in fact the view camera was mounted to a tripod so there was no last minute adjusting for composition possible… just luck.  A year or so later I had a few prints spread out on my table and I noticed that the composition from the smoke stack image finished the composition of the tree photo perfectly.  I’ve played with lining up the images on my website but this is the first time I’ve actually produced them for show.  It’s kind of exciting and I’m not sure I want to part with them yet.

If you are from Austin or familiar with its musicians then no doubt you are familiar with Bob Schneider.  He and I sat down recently, talked about donuts and photoshop, then managed to take a few snaps.  Check them out below and make sure to give him a listen  here.