Meet the Family Rescuing Animals Left Behind from Oregon’s Wildfires A 23-acre family business has turned itself into a volunteer refuge for evacuees from the Holiday Farm Fire. One of the family members– Garett Vollstedt– says his phone number has basically become a dispatch for people in the area since the fire started. Since it’s…
Journalism
VICE: Portland Protest, Wall of Moms, and Tear Gas
A Black Grandmother is Now Helping Lead the Wall of Moms in Portland VICE News went to Portland to find out why the Wall of Moms is suddenly getting so much attention and why the leadership is changing. See what the group’s leaders have to say. Getting Used to Your Government…
NYTimes: Immigration raids with I.C.E.
A day in the field with immigration enforcers in California, a state hostile to President Trump’s efforts to step up deportations. I was sent on an early morning ride along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) officers in the Riverside, Calif. area with producer Deborah Acosta to observe how ICE officers operate during raids under the Trump administration….
Vice: Mueller Investigation
Mueller’s Investigation Has Created An Underworld Of Online Sleuth Sorting through the data of the dead — their pots, their knives, and the rocks they cooked on — in order to reconstruct how they once lived, is not so different from tracking the Special Counsel investigation. On a Friday in February, Adrienne Cobb, 29, lab…
VICE: Wisconsin Republicans Strip Power from Incoming Democratic Governor
Wisconsin Republicans can’t accept that Scott Walker lost an election In an extraordinary session that started Tuesday afternoon and went on till after dawn Wednesday, Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin passed a series of bills designed to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general. Full story on Vice News Tonight. Role Director of…
VICE: 17-year-old rising star among Wisconsin Democrats
Meet a 17-year-old rising star among Wisconsin Democrats When Wisconsin helped to deliver President Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, many Wisconsinites were shell-shocked. From 2000 to 2012, Wisconsin had supported Democrats in every presidential election. But in 2016, many of the young and minority communities that came out for President Obama didn’t show up to…
Politico: My Generation Is Never Going to Have That
On a brisk Saturday morning in March, a 27-year-old programmer named Zach Lubarsky, bundled in a fatigue jacket and knit cap, took a ReachNow rental car to the north end of Seattle and spent an hour or so scouting one of city’s most desirable neighborhoods. Wallingford, as it’s known, offers house hunters some of the…
VICE: Eric Holder on Bomb Threats
Eric Holder on the bomb threats: “It is a sign of the times” For most politicians and their surrogates, the final days leading up to the midterm elections are all about routine campaign activities, like knocking on doors and making phone pitches to voters. But for Eric Holder, a Democrat and the Attorney General under…
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…
36 Hours: Savannah
Yes, there are lots of live oaks and lovely squares, but Savannah also has a lively bar scene, innovative restaurants and a rich, storied past. I’m pleased to share the another episode of 36 Hours, a video travel series, that I’ve been filming for The New York Times. Read the written article here. Role Cinematographer Full Credits Producer: Fritzie Andrade Cinematography: Jessey Dearing…
Traversing snowy New York City by bike
I’m one of the few souls in the tri-state area who lives in New York and commutes daily to work in New Jersey. The “reverse commute,” they call it. To get to work, I ride my bike from Fort Greene, Brooklyn, to Penn station in midtown. From there, I board a New Jersey Transit train…
Here is New York #6 and #7 – 07.29.2013 / 07.31.2013
Maybe I should start calling this series “Here is Brooklyn Bridge.” My regular bike route home brings me over the Brooklyn Bridge as the sun begins to set and I usually take a few minutes to take in the view and see what people are doing. The man was letting people carry, or wear, his…
Spilling Over: Three years on…
I just returned from filming in coastal Louisiana for Spilling Over, a documentary that I’ve been working on for three years with Lauren Frohne. Check out our latest update on the progress of the film and the last shoot.
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…
N.C. Mission of Mercy Dental Clinic
I’m working on a project about health care for my documentary course. I’ve been trying to cover a broad range of topics and one is dental. Dental is often not included in health coverage and is very expensive. People go for years neglecting their dental hygiene even though dental pain can be one of the…
F/22 and Snow
We had a project titled F/22 where we had to photograph 22 things based on a list of 22 words. Here are some of the photos I came out with and the word we were to photograph.Blue 4 a.m. Body art The Letter E Fear From the Hip (not looking through viewfinder) Gross Love Self…
Raleigh Rally
Photos shot today, can you believe it? My focus today was light. Don’t steal my pictures. They are copyrighted. For real.
State Fair Project…
LivingGalapagos.org
Below is a youtube version of my Galapagos project, but I encourage you to visit LivingGalapagos.org because the website is pretty awesome. There is a ton of content on this website about the islands and worth visiting multiple times (you will have to, to see all the content).
action vs reaction
This the the coach of the women’s field hockey team at UNC having a roaring match with a fan.
Protest in Pittsburgh
I went to Pittsburgh with two friends Thursday night and Friday to photograph the protests of the G20 Summit. This is just a couple of images from the protest. The night protest were intense scenes. Police in full riot regalia used smoke, tear gas, rubber bullets and physical force to remove the protesters from the…
work in progress…
Two images from a project in progress. I’m not sure if the final will be in black and white or color, I like both.
at it again…
surrounded by 10,000 people… surrounded by 40,000 people…
can't stop, won't stop
I’ve been shooting a lot lately. Below are some, but not all of what’s been going, and others are out-takes from assignments. Betty Bigombe, a former minister of Uganda and peace negotiator, delivers her keynote speech Thursday discussing her mediations between the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group led by Joseph Kony, and the Ugandan…
big pictures
I’ve finally made the change to big pictures. This may mean slower uploading of the website, but it shouldn’t be a problem if you pay for an internet connection, which I don’t. So now you don’t need to click on all the little pictures, not that you did before. Kate Gilliam, a junior journalism major,…