Clip, clean, clip

It's a rainy week down in South Florida and I've been spending the time between gigs trying to find my desk under the stacks of junk, bills, invoices, notes on hotel stationery, and magazines. Somewhere buried in all of this are a couple of new clips that I'm proud of and wanted to share.

The first is a portrait of nurse Fonza Jones (who I wrote about last month) in the yet to be released March issue of Mother Jones (thanks Mark for giving me the go ahead to post). I've already explained how great it was to meet Fonza which makes it even better now to see the clip and feel like I was able to make an interesting portrait that their design team presented in a clean and authentic way, making the final version that much better.

Thankfully it's much the same story with the second clip, a portrait of environmental rockstar and physicist Amory Lovins made in December for The Guardian's Weekend magazine and their cover story on the 50 people that can save the Earth (woah, big time!). We shot this on a tight schedule in a busy, busy week for both Amory and myself, but it worked out really well since we both love banyan trees (thanks Libby for the scouting). The first time I shot for Weekend I felt like I had hit a home run and was rewarded with a postage stamp sized clip in the resulting story. I fared much finer this time though unsurprisingly a fake (I think, right... they didn't get Leonardo to Greenland or someplace for that cover shot, did they?!) cover of a movie star beat out my images of a real scientist. Someday, Caroline, someday!

As always, here are a few more from the cutting room floor:

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Comments (2)

John,
love the Amory portrait, very well done--I think I like the published version better than the outtake, and good to see the editors played it up as they did.
kudos!

hmm these look very familiar....

did you see amory on pbs last week? turned on tv to find him playing ping pong. amazing.

*e

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