In late September, I spent a couple of days in Holland, Michigan, for a Washington Post story focused on mistrust in the county and the impact this has had on the community.

Things got colorful in this creative portrait session with De’Aunte. We played with light, color, poses, concepts, and props to generate a unique and cohesive batch of images.

A two-light setup was essential for this image that landed on the cover of the Northwest Indiana Business Magazine this month.

Over the last year, I’ve participated in the inaugural Complicating the Narratives Fellowship through the Solutions Journalism Network. This fellowship educated me on solutions journalism methodology and allowed me to focus my attention on a story impacting communities nationwide—gun violence.

A belated honeymoon took my wife and me across the Atlantic to Italy for two weeks this spring. I hadn’t been to Italy in over a decade and was craving the food, history, and art.

Throughout January, I worked on a story that involved tense county board meeting(s) and various portraits to showcase the tension in Ottawa County. The images were a part of the story titled “In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself” for The Washington Post.

It has been a month since I was in Chicago covering the historic election night of the city’s newest mayor.

It was a privilege to photograph my grandmother over the holidays. We kept things pretty simple with just one off-camera flash, but we were able to create a few different looks in her apartment.