It’s kind of weird and kind of cool following a bus with your picture on it.

Forbes magazine is one of my oldest and best editorial clients. My first assignment for Forbes was 26 years ago (yep,I’m that old). This past fall, I photographed three assignments for them. Here’s a couple of them:

“Sean Campbell and Scott Swigart of Cascade Insights in Oregon City, Ore. conduct competitive intelligence searches in the technology sector. They often come across juicy info on employees’ LinkedIn pages: university students describing product features they worked on during summer internships (that haven’t yet been publicly disclosed); an AT&T sales representative’s boast that he worked with one of the company’s biggest Wi-Fi clients, volunteering that it was Nintendo’s $6 million account. Even senior executives slip up, as when Hewlett-Packard vice president of cloud services Scott McClellan outlined the details for HP’s planned cloud computing platform on his LinkedIn profile—while official reports were still extremely vague. Before he could delete the overshare, the news media picked up on it, and rivals Microsoft and Amazon got the lowdown.” source Forbes

Ken Westin, founder and CEO of Gadget Track from an editorial assignment for Forbes Magazine. Gadget Track software can help locate and recover lost and stolen mobile devices, digital cameras, laptops, iPhones, etc.. Photographed on the Broadway Bridge in Portland Oregon this past October.

More blatant self promotion, my new cover for Preservation. Image was licensed as stock photography from a previous editorial photo shoot for Via Magazine.

It’s always nice to shoot editorial travel photography assignments in your own neighborhood. Better yet when it involves food and drink. A fun travel assignment for Via Magazine. Thanks Maggie.

I’m very proud to present my contributions, the June and November pages from the Western Star Trucks 2012 Calendar. Produced with Creative Director Jeff Nichols, and Art Director Lawrence Wolf at CMD along with stylist extraordinaire Kymm Ernst.

A recent project completed for Tri-Met, working with Josh Berger (of Plazm fame), Doug Lowell, Sarah Cline and Camela Raymond at ID Branding. Still photographs are edited into short video clips accompanied by interviews with the various subjects. See the videos here:
http://whatmakesthisplacegreat.com/

A few recently published assignments,
Tad McGeer founded Aerovel which designs and builds unmanned aircraft out of a converted home near Bingen Washington, for Smithsonian. Link: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Drones-are-Ready-for-Takeoff.html

Portland timbers owner Merritt Paulson, for ESPN the Magazine:

Bandon Dunes Caddies, for Sports Illustrated:

For Inc. Magazine. Below are a couple of outtakes.

Sunday April 25 The New York Times Magazine published an assignment I recently shot for their Q&A page, a portrait of Craig Robinson, head coach of men’s basketball at Oregon State University and perhaps more famous as the brother to First Lady, Michele Obama.

This is the most recent of many of these shoots I’ve done for the Magazine’s long running feature and I always enjoy them. For one the people are always fascinating, intelligent and sometimes controversial, which makes for an interesting sitting.

But I also enjoy the simplicity of isolating a subject on white. Of course this is the technique that Avedon made famous. He said “It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense . . .symbolic of themselves.” For most of my work incorporating the subject’s environment or location is often as important as the subject themselves, but when shooting on white it becomes totally about the sitter.

I also like the challenge of creating a studio on location and I’ve done these shoots in parking lots, basements, hallways, hotel rooms and more weird places than I can remember.

Here’s a few more samples of my past New York Times Magazine, Q&A shoots.

Architect Brad Cloepfil

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire

(Former) Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin

Author Chuck Palahniuk

Fun story about books burritos and a son’s love.