I got called this week to make some portraits to accompany a story for the New York Daily News for an article about Martha Burk as Tiger Woods prepares to return to Golf. Burk led a demonstrations during Masters week at Augusta National Golf Club in 2003 to protest their male-only membership policy. There are a few more portraits of Martha Burk in my archive available for licensing.
Blessing from the sky this week, as fellow freelance photographers Ariel Zambelich and Brandon Thibodeaux stopped through Albuquerque on a road trip. In return for crashing on my couch & floor, I received a free beer at Marble, a free sandwich at Kelly’s, and most importantly I got a change to talk photo with two people that I like and respect. The beer and food was just a bonus, as was playing in the snow with Morgan Petroski before she got a a jet plane bound for Florida.
Man, I wanna go somewhere! Who’s coming with me? Can I crash on your couch?
I got a last minute request to photograph a quick series of portraits for Working America, which is a division of the AFL_CIO. My client was really pleased with the images I delivered, which also included these pictures of them protesting on Central. These two didn’t fit with their concept for the other portraits, so I thought I’d share them here.
I hadn’t covered a single basketball game all year long. In fact, I don’t think I have shot a basketball game since the Trib closed. But when the Gallup Independent called, I was happy to help out. It wasn’t much of a game, Navajo Pine fell behind to Hagerman early, and it was pretty much over by half-time. But it was fun for me being back on the floor.
My friend recently purchased a house here in Albuquerque. The previous owner was in her 90′s when she died, and left the house in amazing shape, but a little out of style. I stopped in for a visit and I was drawn to the last fragments of the the home’s previous owner as they are torn out for the remodel. Layers of time hidden under more layers of wallpaper, now a home being reborn.
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