Stories & Series

My friends at Protecting Our Waters continue to organize against fracking, because we all live downstream...

The beginning of an epic pilgrimage around the city's perimeter. Here's the story of our first day on the walk...

Here's one of my recipes for community building... It's not top secret; please go right ahead and replicate or adapt it for your own neighborhood. I guarantee nourishing results.

A beautiful and group of diverse Philadelphians who practice yoga gather to discuss & share their practices...

How I learned the right way to make a breakfast burrito. Three hundred times in one morning.

Here's a story about trying to support a friend who was incarcerated. The system seems pretty broken; I'm grateful to those who are working to fix it...

A tunnel beneath the city,
a canyon between the buildings &
a meadow over the rooftops...

Live music – it's good for the soul.

Images from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Campaign for Fair Food

A bit of photo gadget geekery alongside some portraits of engineers in Togo...

One weekend invitation that shaped the course of my life... along with a story about work that is shaping our culture and our country.

An amazing shoot on the Schuylkill river in preparation for choreographer Alie Vidich's 'Invisible River' performance...

Chasing after a wild dance performance by a citizen ensemble at the foot of the Philadelphia Museum of Art...

Report back from the 200-mile March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food.

"Religion" & "Faith" are complex topics, and it's often hard to have productive conversations with people whose beliefs differ from our own. Here are some folks who've figured it out.

I've begun making my archive available to the communities that I've photographed for unlimited free high res downloads. Here's why.

When I started photographing the Fringe Festival in 2003, I found the folks getting things done backstage to be as compelling as the performers in the spotlight...

Lee had only just proposed that morning, and then Amy found out that the wedding would happen that very same day. She got married on two hours notice, and it was amazing. Here’s the whole story……

What does it look like when 4,000 people come seeking medical care all at once?

Building low-power radio stations so that we can hear our neighbors...

$38,000+ pledged disappeared overnight. Here are a few reflections on the campaign, lessons that I learned, and what might come next.

Photographs of some amazing movers & performers...

Does having a grapefruit-sized tumor on your face mean that you're not photogenic? Certainly not.

Philadelphians who love to dance – a few images from the series.

WARNING: graphic imagery

Another exploration of the vast tunnel under Pennsylvania Ave... Some hope to transform this mysterious and magical space into a public park.

Medical work in the Dominican Republic and Honduras.

Studies in movement & nature

Explorations of abstract forms...

Images from travels in a vast land…