In November, I spent a day in Carmel, Indiana, working on a piece for The Wall Street Journal’s Mansion section. The assignment took me around town, met the outgoing and incoming mayor, and spent time with a couple of families. The weather put a slight damper on the plans, but I was pleased with the overall outcome of the images and how they ran in print!

On the first day of the United Auto Workers strike, I spent the day in Toledo, Ohio, covering the story for The New York Times. For a good chunk of the day, one of my first images from the coverage was at the top of the outlet’s website.

From church services to centennial celebrations, I’ve covered a myriad of events. Throughout these experiences, I’ve identified some commonalities that are integral for making high-quality imagery during events.

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.

Mateo Bank’s official music video for the song “Psalm 14” was a revitalizing project to work on and pushed my creativity through collaboration.

Live theatre is magic—the environment is reshaped, people morph, and viewers travel to new locations and experiences through time and space. Photographing live theatre draws on my ability to anticipate and react in order to create evocative and storytelling imagery for my clients.

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.