DC Magazine, June 2008

Even though I had such a big assignment from Baltimore Magazine (Top Salons, see below), I was still able to squeeze in some assignments for DC Magazine. This month, I covered the Radar Art, Radar Culture, and Look Who's Talking features. Here's a couple of pages that included images in the table of contents:





Oh, almost forgot- here's the contributor page. See if you recognize anyone hahaha:



And here's the good stuff:



That's Mike Weber, a sort of art dealer/ art consultant, who is an artist himself. Here's a quote from an e-mail I got from Mike the week of our shoot:

"Two weeks ago, I broke my wrist and forearm while skateboarding. Had reconstructive surgery and now proudly sport 15 pins and two metal plates around my peanut brittle bones. Airport security will be more fun now. I have a removable splint so it won't be a problem for shooting."

Haha, sorry Mike, I couldn't resist. Anyway, as it turns out, he's good friends with Jason Wright, who I photographed for DC back in April (see the April postings below), and it was Jason who actually brought him to the hospital. In any case, he was great to photograph, had an amazing studio, and we were able to hide his wrist and forearm injury quite well. I like the one that the magazine chose to print, but this was my favorite shot:



Next, the Radar Culture piece:



which features the Echo Park Dance Company. I love photographing dancers! We had shot a bunch indoors, but there was this cool alley behind us that they had mentioned wanting to get a few shots in. They stepped outside to get ready, and by the time I made it out there, they had literally scaled and positioned themselves between these two buildings! They were only able to hold it for a short period of time, but there was all we needed to pull off this shot.

And here's the Look Who's Talking piece, the sort of signature feature of DC Mag:



featuring Grant Ginder. From the article:

"Simon & Schuster recently signed on to publish Ginder’s first novel,
This is How it Starts, which takes readers behind DC’s velvet ropes as it
tracks a new generation of trustafarian 20-somethings navigating
Washington’s elite nightlife scene."

We wanted to shoot in a popular nightlife location, and as it turns out, the place we managed to get is actually a crucial nightlife spot in his novel. Of course, when we shot it was 10am, but I think we did a great job of making it look later in the evening. Once again, I liked the shot the magazine printed, but here's another that has grown on me: