Category Archives: Stories

Fishing Trumps Photography … oops!

By John | Published September 15, 2012

So here is the scene … two old (92 and 84) friends … a pristene river … beautiful, rambunctious trout … spring hatches … it was a movie aching to be made … perhaps “A River RanThrough it”. What did I do? You got it. I fished … and enjoyed the camaradie of fine men. [...]

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Stories

By John | Published February 15, 2012

See my Stories Portfolio My first digital shoot was in 1998. It was portraits for Fidelity to be used in a completely illustrated environment. We’ve come a long way since then. I still shoot film for personal projects; never commercially. The digital environment has brought us immediacy, spontaneity, flexibility, and the ability to take risks with [...]

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The Eyes have it … Opthalmology

By John | Published October 1, 2011

I have spent almost two months photographing the myriad of doctors and researchers at the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmolgy. It is rare to be engaged in a project for this long and it has been a challenge to create distinctive photographs in a world of labs, conference rooms, and clinical exam rooms. In [...]

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Tall Ships … What Goes Around

By John | Published July 15, 2011

Tall Ships … a dream … at last I got a call from a producer in Los Angeles to shoot print ads concurrent with the TV spots for a bank in Russia (VTb24). The subject, in this case, was the captain of the Kreuzenstern, a 3 masted barque, used for maritime training, and the second [...]

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Anatomy of an Annual Report Cover

By John | Published November 10, 2010

Alnylam Pharmaceutical is a biotech firm in Cambridge, MA. I have photographed their annual report for the last five years. There are usually two components to the assignment; the first centered around an idea or theme and tied into a fairly demanding graphic; the second a very free form visual record of the company at [...]

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The Brearley School

By John | Published June 29, 2010

Brearley is a girls prep school on East End Avenue in Manhattan. The assignment was to build their photo library and illustrate a soon to be designed web site and collateral materials. I found a surprising diversity in the student body; a lack of pretense; and a wonderfully intimate and somewhat retro academic environment. It [...]

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