This Ad Job has a First Name
I’ve always heard that Chicago is a great advertising town and now I’ve had a chance to experience it first hand - with fantastic results.
UNEASY Cover Star Joaquin Phoenix
I guess this was an early sitting for Joaquin because the magazine was so concerned about him being nervous that they wouldn’t let me take an assistant.
Dave Heath 1931-2016
Photographer and educator Dave Heath passed away yesterday on his 85th birthday. He was my 4th year professor at Ryerson University, and continued as my mentor after that.
UNEASY Book Title?
Uneasy has had different covers (and titles) along the way, this one is from an early mock up in 2005.
UNEASY Kickstarter - Willie Nelson
He didn’t want to be there, and he wasn’t quiet about it. Willie Nelson was pressured into doing this shoot, so we were all walking on eggshells as the session began.
Unseen UNEASY
You think that you know Chris Buck’s portraits, but there are over 60 until now unseen images in Uneasy.
UNEASY - Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Philip Seymour Hoffman reward is already popular on my Kickstarter.
UNEASY Kickstarter - Sally Mann
I photographed Sally Mann on September 26, 1992, the day that the Immediate Family exhibition opened at the Houk Friedman Gallery in New York.
Pairing with TD Bank
After prepping substantially and doing a full casting, there was an eleventh hour change - we are now going to shoot real investment advisors and their actual clients…
First Edition
Of course I wanted to have a conversation with Jeff Dunas about his photo book collection to get a closer look at some rare and wonderful monographs.
Toilet Humor
Medium.com recently sent me to Haiti to create photographs for a story about toilets. The photo editor told me that she thought of me because my pictures are funny. So, toilet humor then?
Steady Is Exciting
Kinda sums up shooting advertising - “steady is exciting.”
Chris Buck Takes My Picture
This blog post is guest written by my friend and fellow photographer Sarah Wilmer.
Sinatra Revlon Ad
After posting this image on Instagram my friend and colleague Darren Moran wrote me a note explaining much of it’s background.
Hitchcock & Herrmann
I found this picture in a folder in my storage space the other day.
McAfee LiveSafe
As we got shooting with John McAfee, I couldn’t resist going darker and more intense with the pictures.
Kleber Menezes Runs SAP
Kleber is fantastic, but a little eccentric. Of course in advertising a little eccentric is a lot of good.
Donald Trump & the Citizenship Flag
Mr. Trump rejects the photographer's idea of posing with the flag he received when he got his U.S. citizenship six months earlier.
The End of Likeness
The Likeness project had a fine run, but all things come to an end, and my figurine’s time was adventurous and well documented.
Newman and Truman
I approached Arnold Newman after his lecture at my alma mater, Ryerson University in Toronto, in 1990. I was looking for a quick portrait and to arrange an interview.