I am happy to be writing this from my new home in Shanghai!
I am available for projects in China as well as any where else in the world as usual. Now a local in Shanghai and New York City!
Contact info... my phone number in Shanghai is +86-186-1687-5337 and in New York +19177213243
The last thing I will post about the UB 2011 Calendar for the year. It's a great one. Andrew Hetherington (the excellent photographer) writes about his experience of being the proud father of a kitty who didn't make the cut. Check it out here. And a bonus - sign up on the mailing list and I will send you a free kitty print.
Blizzard in New York!
Fun project shooting some ads for New Balance that seemed to magically appear one morning all over New York City.
Client: New Balance Agency: Arnold AD: Luke Perkins AB: Andrea Ricker
Just got back from a month in China and Taiwan (6th trip to china this year!).
A feature I shot for the DEC/JAN 2011 issue of Dwell about a conversion of an old school house in Milford PA.
In August I had the pleasure of visiting Pompeii for Apple to document a team of archaeologists led by Dr. Steven Ellis and Dr. Eric Poehler. The photos tell a story about how Dr. Ellis with the help of the iPad has revolutionized the way scientists work in the field. Pompeii is a magical place - so cool to get to walk around the site at sunrise before any tourists arrive. The whole experience was wonderful. Check it out here http://www.apple.com/ipad/pompeii/
When I started out as a photographer I was way too shy to take portraits of people I didn’t know. I mostly shot architecture. It was lonely. I decided I needed to change. I gave myself an assignment to hang out in parks and take portraits of people. The two rules I gave myself were 1) I had to ask if I could take their pictures, and 2) the more awkward I felt about asking them the more I forced myself to. At the beginning of this exercise it would sometimes take me 30 minutes before getting the courage up to approach – I would follow them through central park at a distance hating myself – feeling like a stalker. I worked on this more and more till I felt comfortable approaching strangers.
In New York people say yes 99% of the time when I ask. I tried the same thing in Miami and people also said yes – but thought I was trying to pick them up. In LA it’s hard to get close enough to people to be able to ask.
I had the pleasure of hanging out with the talented Jesse Eisenberg the other day. Such an interesting and nice guy.
Just got back from a week in Boulder where I was shooting a feature for Bon Appétit.
Check it out - a picture I took of rain on my car windshield has been chosen to be the default wallpaper image on the new iPhone!
I am very excited about this - the picture and the phone.
Congratulations to the people at Apple for all their hard work creating such a beautiful object!
Introducing Elsa Bonita Peng Sheldon. 7lbs 2oz. 21" long. We are thrilled!
Elsa at 10 minutes old.
Some construction photos I took in February of the Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid Architects.
If you are in Miami please check out my show up now at Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain's great space
More pictures from the show -
And here is a crazy statistic that became far to obvious while I was visiting -
Between January and June 2010, there were 95,357 foreclosures in South Florida*
In Miami Florida 1 in every 120 housing units received a foreclosure filing in August 2010.** In Homestead Florida (zip code 33035) 1 in 10 housing units received a foreclosure filing in August 2010.**
(*source - http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/15/1731011/s-florida-foreclosures-surge.html#ixzz11EGHTaSn) (**source - http://www.realtytrac.com/trendcenter/fl/miami-trend.html)
Timelapse video from a photobooth I made for Opening Ceremony. Song is Nite Life by Adult.
Grafik Magazine commissioned me to take a picture of my friends Adam Michaels and Prem Krishnamurthy of Project Projects, a design studio based in New York.
I am currently in China and Taiwan on assignment. Back to New York on February 8th.
