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The Family Genome

I got an assignment from the Wall Street Journal last week to photograph Anne West at Wellesley College. She is studying her family’s genome to find unusually specific information about her and her family’s health, including the likelihood of certain diseases. You can read the full story here.

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9tailors

Are you surprised that I do fashion? Me too. But, I might need to broaden my scope after a really fun two-day shoot with Samantha and Kathryn from 9tailors. They did a great job of organizing everything and picking some of their most stylish clients who were also a lot of fun to work with. […]

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Tap

I photographed a tap class in Bedford for the Wall Street Journal’s What’s Your Workout section a couple of weeks ago. It was a nice little reminder that if I want to exercise consistently I should probably find something fun to do. The dancers in the class were working up a sweat and having a […]

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Politics

Last month I worked on a story for the Wall Street Journal that explored voter impatience. Is two years all you get to solve long-term problems? The reporter and I went to a debate in Concord and talked with other New Hampshire residents in Manchester about their thoughts on the pendulum swing between elections. You […]

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Flaky

For the first time in my life I sat for hours at an airport praying for snow. I was assigned to document Logan’s hi-tech snow removal operations Wednesday, but unfortunately the snow didn’t accumulate until after deadline. Instead of riding shotgun in a Vammas, I attended the snow planning meetings before spending the next few […]

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Voice

President Clinton came to Worcester again on Friday. It’s amazing how someone can string together a coherent, witty, logical and noteless 30-minute oration without so much as a stutter. Truly impressive. And I’m going to pretend I’m not offended that no one asked me if I wanted my picture taken with him this time. Don’t […]

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One Hen

Last week the Wall Street Journal assigned me to spend some time with Katie Smith Milway for a story about people who managed a healthy midlife crisis. Katie spoke to a middle school class about the product of her “positive midlife crisis”, an interesting children’s book about microlending: One Hen – How One Small Loan Made […]

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