I was a little apprehensive when Paul D'Orleans at The Vintagent ordered Ezy Ryders! He's been a historian of MC culture for a long time, and authored the crucial read "Chopper: The Real Story." It was such a cool surprise to see his very positive review of Ezy Ryders. Read it here.
Drought threatens a tribe's farm in Colorado
In a recent assignment for NBC News, I went to Southwestern Colorado to visit the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Farm & Ranch, who are feeling the effects of years of drought. Read the article here and see more of my photographs from this trip.
NBC News + Ezy Ryders
Thrilled to share this piece from NBC News on the Ezy Ryders book!
I really like this part:
“The book flows like an oral history and has the intimate feel of an old group of friends sharing stories at the end of a party, long after most guests have left.”
Ezy Ryders in WhyNow
Excited to share this Ezy Ryders interview with writer Eva Clifford in U.K. publication WhyNow.
Ezy Ryders in i-D Vice
Recently I had a great conversation with culture & photography writer, Miss Sara Rosen. We sent her a full preview of the book, and to my shock and happiness, she read it cover to cover. Here's her article in i-D—it was the first item on the home page the day it was published! Thank you Sara for championing Ezy Ryders for years.
My Ride's Best of 2021
Leonard Erdman and his custom purple lowrider Ford for the Wall Street Journal's car and motorcycle column, "My Ride." This shoot from summer 2021 made their list of the year's best! Read here.
Covid Vaccines on the Navajo Nation in NYT & WSJ
The photographs I made for a Bloomberg feature on covid-19 vaccinations in the United States, were also used in articles in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Covid-19 vaccinations on the Navajo Nation
I photographed ongoing covid-19 vaccinations on the Navajo Nation in Gallup, New Mexico for Bloomberg News on March 23, 2021. On this day, the temporary clinic at the University of New Mexico was giving the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine to individuals who’d received their first shot two weeks prior.
The Navajo Nation had some of the worst covid mortality rates per capita in the United States in the spring and summer of 2020. Now, the Navajo Area Indian Health Service has vaccinated approximately 75% of their user population—people who have visited them in the last three years—and they’re still going. I felt the sense of some light at the end of the tunnel.
Read the full Bloomberg story, here. My photo is at the very end.
The Washington Post: Covid's Youngest Victims
Earlier this month I went to Amarillo, Texas to meet Quincy Drone and Lastassija White. In the Fall of 2020 their five year-old, Tagan, started in-person kindergarten, and in October, she fell sick. When her mother brought her to the hospital, Tagan tested positive for Covid-19 and was sent home. Later that night, she died.
Quincy and Lastassija found it too painful to return home where Tagan spent her last days. These photographs show who and what Tagan left behind--young parents, bereft, a few of her favorite stuffed animals, a colorful hair-bow collection.
“Look what happened to us,” Drone said. “People have to take it serious. And it’s not over. We’re still in the pandemic. We’re still in 2021. Do you think no more kids are going to die? Tagan was the light for us. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy.”
"As the nation reaches the milestone of a half-million deaths about a year after the first American succumbed to the coronavirus, the number of children killed by the disease remains relatively small… Each death represents a shattered family and a trauma deepened, parents say, by the rampant belief that kids can’t get covid, or that it doesn’t much harm them when they do… The children who have died of covid-19 are, even more than among adults, disproportionately children of color — about three-quarters of those who’ve succumbed to covid so far, according to CDC data." -italicized text by Washington Post authors
Work for the Bloomberg Wire in 2020
Photographs I made for Bloomberg’s wire service in 2019 & 2020 have been published in Barron’s, Bloomberg, Institutional Investor, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Print India, Vox, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. The most recent assignment I did for Bloomberg was at the Avangrid Renewables solar farm in Encino, New Mexico.
