Stories & Series

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explorations of abstract forms...

WARNING: graphic imagery

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...

"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.

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

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

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

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?

Studies in movement & nature

Medical work in the Dominican Republic and Honduras.

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

Live music – it's good for the soul.

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

Images from travels in a vast land…

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

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

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

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

Photographs of some amazing movers & performers...