During a portraiture workship in Brooklyn last year, I was fortunate enough to spent a good part of it with Tyler, an extraordinarily photogenic young man. This image of him was my favorite; it’s that moment between poses —the pause—that somehow reveals a soul, in a quiet way.
Read MoreThe couple in “Waimanalo Gothic” are actually dear family friends.
When they told us they were engaged to be married, I jumped at the chance to memorialize this milestone. I love that their playfulness emerges without even a hint of a grin in this formal composition.
Read MoreI was able to catch this Polynesian young man – far from home but never far from phone – pondering in the shade before the start of the King Kamehameha Day parade in downtown Honolulu.
Read MoreI photographed this striking Hawaiian warrior, wearing a traditional helmet, at the start of the parade honoring Kamehameha the Great, the founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Read MoreI was photographing a ground blessing in the Papakōlea neighborhood for a new home to be built for a multi-generation family with the help of volunteers from Honolulu Habitat for Humanity. As I was packing up to leave the site, so was the family.
Read MoreAs part of my “Backyard Geographic” series, I have been looking for opportunities to create photographs without getting on a plane during the Covid pandemic.
Read MorePositioning myself at the top of a parking garage, I framed the shot and waited patiently for a passerby to hit his mark. The marks on the sidewalk and the converging lines of the curb cuts suggest that the subject is an actor on a stage, referencing the Hawaii Theater without identifying it by name.
Read MoreKia Ora, Air New Zealand’s in-flight magazine, featured this image on their back page. It was one of several that I took from a helicopter on a trip to the northern part of the southern island.
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