An episode I produced for iPondr on the one year anniversary of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, featuring photographs and writing by five local Black photographers. Click image to view project.

Diptych by photographer Patience Zalanga, which was accompanied by her writing for the project I produced for iPondr on the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s death. For this project, local Black photographers were invited to contribute both journalistic and personal reflections to accompany images. Click image to view project.

A gallery of images about George Floyd Square’s evolution as a community space, part of the iPondr project I produced for the one year anniversary of Floyd’s death. Featuring work by Kyndell Harkness, Andrea Ellen Reed, Nina Robinson, Patience Zalanga and Keren Habtes. Click image to view project.

A video by photojournalist Katie Falkenberg about a woman teaching fly fishing to her daughter. I pitched, assigned and produced this project for an iPondr episode on ways that diverse families are passing down outdoor skills and traditions across generations. I developed this video with the contributor based on her long-term, ongoing work on this subject.

A photo essay, accompanied by an interview with photographer Jeff Rhode, featuring his work intimately documenting a year inside a New Jersey hospital during the coronavirus. I pitched and edited the project, did a research interview with Jeff, wrote captions, commissioned a formal interview and condensed the text for publication. Click the image to view project.

An image from the project featuring photographer Jeff Rhode’s year-long documentary inside a hospital during Covid-19, which I produced and edited for iPondr. Click image to view project.

A photo project I pitched and produced for an iPondr episode about efforts to diversify traditionally white-dominated sports. In collaboration with the Iroquois Nationals, I researched, captioned and wrote the introduction for this project exploring the history of the Haudenosaunee, the inventors of the sport of lacrosse. Click image to view project.

An image from the photo project I produced on the Iroquois Nationals and the indigenous history of lacrosse for an iPondr episode about efforts to diversify white-dominated sports. Click image to view project.

For an iPondr project about cultural appropriation in the food world that I pitched, I collaborated with subject Parisa Parnian, an Iranian-American artist and food professional, on a video incorporating her animations.

A photo montage (multiple exposure created in Photoshop) of professional theater lighting designer Mitchell Frazier by photographer Caroline Yang, assigned for an iPondr project about BIPOC professionals in the theater business. The challenge was to find a visually powerful way to show the subject and his work while theaters were closed due to the coronavirus.

For an iPondr project about how Covid aid inequities impact communities, I pitched and edited this project work by Native Alaskan photographer Brian Adams about his hometown for a story about debate over aid to Native Corporations. I researched and wrote the introduction and captions, hired Sarah Stacke to interview Brian and did the photo edit. Click image to view project.

A slideshow of Native Alaskan photographer Brian Adams work for a project about Covid aid inequities. Click image to view project.

For an iPondr project about accessible parks, I found and contacted a subject (a mother of a special needs child) who has been advocating for inclusive space in Alabama. I assigned videographer Bob Miller, did a pre-interview with the subject, coordinated the shoot, wrote the interview question outline, edited the cuts and wrote the introduction and text slides for the piece.

I edited/curated this traveling exhibit of project work by Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Minneapolis Star Tribune staff photographer and 2018 NPPA BOP Large market Photographer of the Year. He was presenting two bodies of work: one on Lakota life on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the other on the Standing Rock #NODAPL pipeline protests. I selected images from a wide edit and we collaborated on creating a diptych presentation of visually and thematically related images from the two parts of the project. Larger images were displayed on their own at a bigger print size.

During a contract photo editing position at the largest Minnesota daily newspaper, I staffed the afternoon/evening photo desk, handling assignments, working with photographers in the field and choosing staff, freelance and wire images for the national, local, feature and sports sections, as well as editing for online.

I was hired to research and photo edit a series of print and online special sections commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Based on an initial outline of subject matter, I delved into the full archive of the newspaper, and worked collaboratively with the section editors, writers and with the design staff to develop the content of these sections.

I self-published Racing Age (2017), a book of photographs and essays about masters track & field athletes of retirement age and older, after photographing the subject over the span of ten years. Part of this project was published in The New York Times sports section, and on the LENS Blog, where I worked with Becky Lebowitz Hanger on the edit. For the book project, I was my own primary editor during the course of the project, then collaborated with Sarah Foster, my editor at Getty Images, on the final decisions. I also worked closely with graphic designer Ashima Jain to create a template concept which then guided some of the shooting and editing decisions.

I self-published Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Festival (2009), a photography book documenting the oldest and largest lesbian-feminist separatist gathering in the world. The project, which I shot over the course of 9 years, was personal and delicate to navigate, as I navigated an intensely private subculture. This project was published on the New York Times LENS blog, where Jim Estrin collaborated with me on an edit. For the book project, New York Times photo editor Sarah Weismann and Getty Images creative director Sarah Foster worked with my own initial edits to cull down the huge body of work to a working edit. From there, we collaborated on final decisions and guiding the last several years of shooting to complete the work. I also worked closely with graphic designer Ashima Jain on developing the elegant template we used, based on Cartier Bresson’s Decisive Moment book, to make editing and shooting choices.