Greasy
Assignment: Get in a time machine and go back to the 50s. Find an emerging artist and create a portrait with the technology you find available. Meet Marten:

Shooting Victim: Deep Roy
He’s a staple of Hollywood. One of the most prolific actors that you’ve seen but never heard of. From the Never Ending Story and Roots of Evil to Transformers 2, Deep Roy is the sweetest person you’ll meet…and he’s wonderful to work with. Very few portrait subjects can turn it on when the camera’s on and shine the entire session. With Deep it was like clockwork. He was on the moment we started and made it happen for two hours of shooting. There were so many

Oasis
It was a photographer’s dream. A blank canvas. No pressure, no deadlines, no parameters. I really didn’t know what to expect. I had been to Africa once before but as a tourist. Now I was going to see what my favorite paleontologist was doing with the Institute of Human Origins in the Afar region of Ethiopia. Dr. Kaye had told me stories for years of her adventures in the area. This year the stars aligned and I was able to make the trip. Over 24 hours on planes, another 10 on a bus, a final crawl with Land Cruiser and you’re there. It’s in the middle of nowhere, near the hottest place on earth, the nearest Coke is 40km away. It seems like there’s nothi

New Portrait Series – Afar Man
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