Elegant Storytelling Photojournalism
January 8, 2011, I was working at home in the Phoenix area, editing photos as my 5 week-old son played on his floor mat beside me, when I heard on the radio that a gunman had gone on a rampage in Tucson, killing a number of innocent people and shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the...
All photos shot for Reuters. I had an interesting assignment to see the Arizona- Mexico border through the eyes of a tourist. The tour bus left from Tucson and traveled through Arivaca then down to Nogales on a scorching summer day. The tour’s emphasis is to allow the border to speak for itself without a...
It is not often that a photo assignment makes me nervous anymore. Back when I was fresh out of school and in my very first newspaper internship at the Bay City Times and Bay City, Michigan I would get so nervous before work that I could barely eat and I thought about little else other...
Freelance writer Amanda Crawford and I recently worked on a story about Maricopa County’s drug court for Phoenix Magazine. Drug court participants have been convicted of a felony (either a non-violent or drug crime) their prison sentence is suspended and drug court is part of their probation. Participants are subject to random drug testing, required...
Gretchen Smith, 21, of Tucson, Arizona gets emotional at the memorial outside the University Medical Center as she talks about her husband and daughter who were driving into the Safeway parking lot when the shooting happened. I spent another day covering the Tucson shooting for European Press photo Agency, EPA. The memorials continue to grow...
