Andy Selsberg

I photographed humor writer Andy Selsberg in advance of the release of his new book, You Are Good At Things. We wandered around the High Line on a Sunday afternoon, and we recruited a few locals to be in the photos, like Aly Salem here on the right.

Andy's book is a list of things you could be good at. A few examples:

Noticing new haircuts.
Sensing how many sheets the stapler can handle.
Knowing the right Bible verses to share at sporting events.

Am I good at shooting portraits of humor writers? I'll have to ask Andy.

Shot for The Chicago Tribune.

Nancy Bilyeau

Thriller author Nancy Bilyeau recently published her first book, The Crown. It's billed as a "Tudor-era religious thriller," so photographing at The Cloisters was an obvious choice. Shot for The Chicago Tribune.

Salty Cats

Two weekends back I ran up to Providence, RI for the Salty Cats cat show. I wanted to add to the essay I shot last year of a cat show in New Jersey, and since I didn't need to flesh out an entirely new essay I concentrated on adding a bit of dimension to what I already had. I again shot all verticals and paired for diptychs. Here are a few new ones from the weekend. The essay from both shows is here.

The Roots for Relevant magazine

My final shoot of 2011 was of Black Thought and Questlove of The Roots. We built a simple studio in a space in Flatiron (Brooklyn was out—too far away from their gig at Late Night) for Relevant magazine's March/April issue.

 

The photos have a second home in Relevant's iPad version. (Click above to go Relevant's page for the issue.)
A few others from the shoot:

Recess

Two frames from a shoot this week for a friend's band, Recess.

charity: water for Relevant magazine

Last year Relevant hired me to photograph charity: water founder Scott Harrison, and I'm stoked to have the cover of the magazine's Jan/Feb issue. Here are two other set-ups from the shoot:

Tiny Clips

Cutouts: Oct. 31, 2011 New York mag Approval Matrix (from a NYT story about bus segregation) & Jan./Feb. 2012 Mother Jones (of Dallas real estate magnate Harlan Crow).

A sub-one-column photo space I've always kept an eye on is The New Yorker's Tables For Two review, but they've only run illustrations lately.