I had the pleasure of photographing Elliot Zimet for our Focus On section earlier this year. Eliot is one of the few working magicians who maintains a full-fledged bird act, a feat in itself, which requires not only superb magic skills, but also an incredible amount of care and devotion invested in his birds. Above [...]

Lens, the New York Times’s photo blog, had an excellent fly-on-the-wall video post a few months back in which they followed staff photographer Richard Perry on assignment. The video (you can watch it by CLICKING HERE) is fantastic, because it highlights a couple things I think a lot of people take for granted about photojournalism. [...]

It’s been a busy, but rewarding past few weeks. Some highlights included the Concert for Japan (click here for article) at the Japan Society, which featured Lour Reed, Philip Glass, the J-pop group Salmé (first photo) and Sadahiro Kakitani (second photo);  the Tallis scholars at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin (third and fourth [...]

A couple outtakes from an assignment (David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony at Carnegie Hall) I shot earlier this month. I’ve been in over a dozen performance venues in the city, but from a photographer’s perspective, nothing compares to the Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. The world famous concert space is impressive not [...]

February 3, 2011 – Brooklyn, NY : Protesters, including students, teachers, union activists and elected officials, came out in great numbers to oppose the shuttering of 12 New York City schools at a Panel for Education Policy meeting held at Brooklyn Technical High School in Ft. Greene on Feb. 3. The noise at the Feb. [...]

I had the pleasure of attending the New York Community Media Alliance Ippies Journalism Awards dinner this past week. The event, which took place on a boat and was EMCEE’d by WNYC’s  Bob Hennelly, served to honor outstanding work by the ethnic and community press. My pictures and layout for a feature on a local [...]

January 28, 2011 – Tuckahoe, NY : The Riverdale and Horace Mann squash teams faced off against each other on Jan. 28.  Riverdale came away with a 4-3 win, defeating the Lions for the second time this season. Above, Riverdale’s Aaron Horowitz, front, competes against Horace Mann senior Josh Goodstein. Our sport editor, Raphael Sugarman, [...]

I photographed classical guitarists Eliot Fisk and Zaira Meneses for the New York Times at the 92nd Street Y on January 5. An image ran in the arts section and subsequently made The Week in Culture Pictures slideshow. The clip, as well as a few outtakes, are above. Check out the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/arts/music/07fisk.html

January 21, 2011 – Bronx and Manhattan, NY : Five-oh officers Flick, left, and McCoy patrol the Marble Hill houses on a frigid late-January night. The 50th precinct beefed up their presence in certain areas surrounding Riverdale recently and were kind enough to let me tag along on a night patrol. I have the utmost [...]

January 25, 2011 – Bronx, NY : A man enjoys a morning jog through the snow in Van Cortlandt Park on Tuesday morning… and other snowy scenes. We got some big, fat photogenic flakes at the end of last month and I took the opportunity to wander through Van Cortlandt Park and make some photographs. [...]

January 20, 2011 – Bronx, NY : Toto, played by Lucky, and Dorothy, played by Sara Friedman, share a quiet backstage moment during a dress rehearsal of the Riverdale Children’s Theatre‘s performance of the Wizard of Oz on Jan. 20 at Lehman College’s Lovinger Theater. I am a sucker for backstage photographs, because they provide [...]

January 21, 2011 – Manhattan, NY :  Pedestrians cross Ft. Washington Ave. at West 181st St. in front of a row of parked MTA buses at 7:04am on Jan. 21. Another snowy morning in Washington Heights. Less than an hour after this picture was taken, the sun came out and we were treated to a [...]