VICE: This navy midwife has delivered 5,000 babies

David Loshbaugh is Commander in the United States Navy serving in an elite unit. One of 30 active duty midwives in the ranks, Loshbaugh serves his country every day — by delivering babies. Check out the published story on Vice News Tonight.   Role Director of Photography Full Credits Producer: Amanda Pisetzner This segment originally aired…

VICE: This app will pay anyone to shoot news videos

Americans’ trust in news media is at an all-time low. But local news is the source people trust the most. Now there’s an app called Fresco that could complicate that. Local news stations around the country are using it to outsource the gathering of news footage to anyone with a smartphone. VICE News’ Elle Reeve…

Great Big Story: Rescuing Cats from Super Tall Trees

As professional arborists, brothers-in-law Tom Otto and Shaun Sears are quite adept at climbing trees. The cats that they rescue are not. And with a plethora of trees—and cats—around Seattle, they decided to put their off hours to good use and return scared, stuck kitties to their worried owners. Working completely off donations, these two…

GREAT BIG STORY: Hard Ship

Three paralyzed men take up one of sailing’s most grueling challenges—a 750 mile race to Alaska through some of the most treacherous and remote waters on the planet. With no motors allowed and many miles from any help, the competition can be too dangerous for the world’s most fearless sailors. This team is out to…

Newsweek: One Carefree Night

The township of Manenberg stands twelve miles outside of Cape Town, South Africa. Formed under the apartheid regime in 1966 as a neighborhood for “Colourdes,” the South African word for citizens of mixed race, Manenberg lives under a legacy of racism defined by gang warfare, unemployment and drug addiction. Life as a gang member often…

Minerva Institute: Visionary Futures

Visionary Futures is a short film created for the Minerva Institute to profile students who receive financial assistance. The film is used to engage the support of philanthropists and inspire them to continue to donate and fund the work of the Minerva Institute in providing equal access to to quality education. About the Film The Minerva…

Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion

A conversation between a recovering addict, a Seattle police officer, and a case manager on their experience as some of the first participants in an innovative harm reduction program. The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a harm reduction program started in Seattle. Instead of incarcerating low level, repeat drug offenders, LEAD is a pre-booking…

NYTimes: Shirley and the Bodybuilder

Martin Luther King Addo is a two time former Mr. Ghana champion bodybuilder. Shirley Friedman is a 90-year-old native of Brooklyn. This film is about how Addo’s small business gym in Lower Manhattan is bringing confidence and mobility to the elderly community of Southbridge Towers. Read the full story here. Role Director of Photography, Sound, Interview Editor: John M….

Global Immersion: San Francisco

Founded in 2014, Minerva Schools is designed around a new vision of higher education that combines a reinvented curriculum, rigorous academic standards, innovative technology, and an immersive global experience. Students study in seven different cities over the course of four years, including San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Berlin, and Mumbai. This short film is the first…

36 Hours: Paris

Think Left Bank, and the Latin Quarter and the Eiffel Tower spring to mind. The Right Bank, which is twice the size, has no clear identity. There are, in fact, many Right Banks. I’m pleased to share the another episode of 36 Hours, a video travel series for The New York Times. Read the written article here. Role Cinematographer Full…

NYTimes: A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared

Dan Price, chief of Gravity Payments, raised the annual salary floor for his employees to $70,000. Most responses were positive, but Mr. Price says that even the negative letters were valuable. When I found out I’d have just over an hour and a half for this shoot, I knew I wanted to bring Tim Matsui…

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger: In Plain Sight

While I was interning at The Boston Globe in 2011, James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was arrested in Santa Monica, Calif., after 16 years on the run. Bulger is known as one of the most dangerous and notorious gangsters in Boston and spent more than 10 years on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list. I was sent to Santa…