Commissioned and self-assigned portraits of superstar athletes, politicians and regular men and women.

Former Maine Governor, Angus King, won election to fill the seat of retired Senator Olympia Snowe. I followed Sen. King on his first official day in office in Washington, D.C. for the Portland (Maine) Press-Herald. Published in print and web.

Ricky Chang, 20, broke his neck performing a trick on his bike a month after graduating high school in 2008. In the two years afterward, therapy sessions, medication and determination have allowed him to regain the ability to speak, swallow, and some movement in his arms and hands. For The News & Messenger (Manassas, VA). Published in print and as a multimedia piece.

Portraits and events on and off campus.

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the House of Representatives, the first woman to represent the 7th District in the State of Washington, as well as the first Asian-American to represent the State of Washington in Congress. I spent a day and a half with Rep. Jayapal a month into her term for The Stranger, a Seattle weekly publication. My story and photographs ran on their web edition at www.thestranger.com.

This project explores the cultural identity of Monacan Indian Nation and its people by documenting their daily lives and confronting the Native American stereotype. The Monacans made contact with European settlers in 1608. In the ensuing 400 years they have mixed with Europeans and defy the classic American Indian archetype forged in the 1800s by George Catlin and Edward Curtis which persists to this day. Defying stereotypes doesn’t mean Monacans have been exempt from discrimination. The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 removed Virginia Indians from all official government documentation based on the false notion that no Indians truly existed in Virginia. Monacans were barred from Amherst County public schools until 1963. Virginia's reliance on stereotypes resulted in public policy designed to disenfranchise an entire ethnic group. The largest Indigenous tribe in Virginia, with 10,000 years of archaeological history in the Virginia Piedmont, Monacan Indian Nation was only recently granted federal recognition in January 2018.

Portraits of men and women in business and politics.

Although their adopted son, Donald, 20, suffers from Cerebral Palsy, that hasn't stopped adoptive father, Michael Harms, from running long-distance events with Donald, utilizing their customized racing wheelchair. When they participate in these events, they raise money for Ainsley's Angels of America, an organization that helps people with special needs participate in endurance events. The Harms family, in Manassas, Virginia were featured in a cover story of the Novant Health quarterly magazine, Healthier Together and Novant Health website.

Athletes

Close to home or far away. Pictures with my phone, or my "real" camera. This is a loose collection of the photographs I make when I'm not on an assignment.