Autumn Whitehurst
is a Brooklyn based illustrator, and a good friend of mine. Her clients include Glamour Magazine, Lillet, and The Principality Of Monaco. These images were all taken in or around Autumn’s apartment where she has lived and worked for 13 years. The dwelling, its garden and the things she has collected and displayed in it are all very much a part of her and her history.

Frohawk Two Feathers
(Umar Rashid) is an artist I met in Los Angeles. His gorgeous, highly detailed, paintings and drawings are provocative reimaginings of colonial history, but they are also, on a very basic level, pictures of awesome dudes, wearing cool outfits, doing badass stuff.

On the day I photographed him, Umar was taking care of his daughter while hanging out and rehearsing with his friend and collaborator Micah James. Umar is also a performer. Together, he and Micah are the rap group Superdelux. Later in the afternoon, we climbed the hill behind his home so he could chop down a small tree. He needed it to make a spit for roasting a lamb for a feast he was hosting in his yard the following weekend.

Andrew Yang
is well known for his incredible Kouklitas, a series of beautiful and intricate couture dolls. For this shoot, I met Andrew for breakfast at his apartment in Bushwick and then followed him to his studio in Long Island City where he and his group of friends were getting ready for a costume ball they were attending that evening. Andrew and the others had created unique fauvist reimaginings of period baroque costuming for the evening’s event. Andrew’s own gown was created from cutting up dozens of floral print dresses and sewing them into one large skirt.

Scooter LaForge
for Dirty Magazine
I shot the incredible painter and t-shirt artist, Scooter LaForge, in his studio for his interview in the premier issue of Dirty Magazine.

Jaime Verazin
Jaime Verazin is a professional dancer who lives and performs in New York City. For our shoot, I met her at Lincoln Center where she recently performed two seasons with the Metropolitan Opera in Aida, Les Contes de Hoffmann, and Armida, in which she performed a non vocal lead role, Love. I then followed her to the Union Square farmers market where she wanted to pick up some new flowers to plant in her garden with the help of her boyfriend, Chris, and pooch, Button. In the afternoon, Jaime brought me to her rehearsal with choreographer Katherine Helen Fisher, where I photographed the pair as they developed a new piece that they will be performing together this fall at Dance Space.

Scott Matthew
I met Scott at a party last fall and soon after came to know his gorgeous music. When I heard that he would be performing at the Tompkins Square Library, I asked him if I could photograph him on the day of the show. We began the shoot at his home in Williamsburg, where he was drinking coffee, beautifying, and practicing for the evening’s performance. I then accompanied him to the library in the east village where I photographed him rehearsing and then performing with his band members, Clara Kennedy and Eugene Lemcio.

Bridget Everett
I took these photographs of the incredible performer, Bridget Everett, for her interview in East Village Boys. I had the pleasure of hanging out with Bridget before she performed in her monthly show, Our Hit Parade, at Joe’s Pub. The day included lingerie shopping at Rainbow, a hot bath to relax and memorize song lyrics, rehearsal with her band backstage before the show, and culminated with her killer performance that evening.

Border Stories for Latina Magazine
Latina Magazine sent me to El Paso, Texas to photograph a story about the people who cross The Paso del Norte Bridge. The bridge connects the downtown area of Cuidad Juarez in Mexico to downtown El Paso in Texas. The two cities look like one from the air, but on the ground they are very much divided by the International border. One of the many differences is that Juarez is the most dangerous city in Mexico and El Paso is one of the safest in the U.S.

Every day up to 30,000 people cross the bridge on foot from Mexico into the US. People cross for a variety of reasons including school, work, shopping, entertainment and family get-togethers.

George McCracken
is a New York based independent fashion designer. His clothes utilize high end tailoring and elevated fabrics, but his designs speak in a casual minimalist voice, even across a range of garments, from high-end suiting to his new line of japanese-made denim.