Stories & Series

"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.

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...

Live music – it's good for the soul.

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...

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

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

Images from travels in a vast land…

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

Explorations of abstract forms...

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

Medical work in the Dominican Republic and Honduras.

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.

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

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

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……

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photographs of some amazing movers & performers...

WARNING: graphic imagery

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

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

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

Studies in movement & nature