Border Trip

I'm off for the next eight days to cruise along the U.S.-Mexico border, searching for interesting ways of telling the immigration story and working on some stories I've uncovered so far. I'll be traveling with my good friend Peter Maybarduk, a musician/public interest lawyer/renaissance man I've known since college. The plan is to fly to El Paso and drive west, eventually flying back from San Diego.

From an Undisclosed Location

The Vice President briefly emerged from hiding and made an appearance today at the Heritage Foundation. That part was fairly standard and uninspiring; the protesters outside were also fairly standard, but certainly more photogenic. Hopefully this picture will become more useful as coverage of the Protect America Act picks up over the next week.

The Chuck and Huck Show

One of my pictures from New Hampshire was on the TIME Magazine website the other day. I'm not sure what's better, that it happened on my birthday or that the picture is of Chuck Norris.

Red Carpet Treatment

I covered the red carpet arrivals at the BET Honors this past weekend here in DC, which is the first time I've done that sort of entertainment news coverage. I was kind of surprised to see a number of people I know from the standard political press corps there, which made me feel a bit better about myself, despite warnings that it would be a soul-sucking experience.

All in all, the whole thing was rather congenial and not entirely the paparazzi experience I was bracing myself for. The "stars" were cooperative, posed where we asked them to, and made eye contact when requested. There was little to no shouting. Like almost everything else, the image of such work is tinged with a bit of hyperbole.

New Hampshire, and Other News

I don't know about you, but after working really really hard on a project for a while, I start to get itchy and can't wait to just be home where I can edit my take and get a sense of what I've accomplished. I started to feel that way in New Hampshire after 11 of the most intense shooting days of my life, without so much as an hour of downtime the whole time. So, as I was sitting in the airport after being rejected in my request to fly out earlier on standby, I edited my New Hampshire work and it's online already here.

The other recent news is that I was selected as a finalist for the first ever grant under the David Alan Harvey Fund for Emerging Photographers for the story I am doing on Heroin Addiction in Russia. Check out the news and the site.

Primary Colors

I'm in New Hampshire covering the primaries. I'm not going to post here every day, mainly because I don't have time, but I will post something on my archive when it's all done.