Had occasion to revisit this session recently. These kids are brimming with the cute. This session was a combination studio/location session.

The Cornelius clan hired me to provide some coverage of their family reunion. Following formal portraits of the whole family as well as each smaller family group, I hung around to catch candids of the kids at play. In all, I stayed about two hours. More here.

I’m from a large family and I really love working with a group. Especially when there are kids. The organized chaos energizes me.

A fun family session on a beautiful spring afternoon. Really enjoyed it.

For a fundraiser I was a preschool photographer for a couple of days. Different way of working, but still a lot of fun. And pretty good funds were raised, too. Here are some of my favorites from that bunch.

Something to tide you over until the new site gets going. Here are more.

From same project.

From an older project. Just came across it again recently. Kids killing time before school.

I recently did headshots for a pair of young actors. We shot in and around their home with the aid of my mini mobile studio and their younger brother (an able assistant, indeed).

Portrait Session.

More here.

From a series I did about life at a rural Thai orphanage. Many of the children were not actually orphans but from families where they were not wanted or could not be supported.

This boy’s mother was a single and had no place for her son to be while she worked. She is visiting him on family day.

More images of this coming soon.

For more on them click here.

Another installment in the SHAC series.

Left to right, starting with the man in the back, his youngest daughter, his wife, and their granddaughter (by their oldest daughter) whom they raise. He was weightlifter who worked as a janitor at UNC. She worked at an animal shelter. They met when he was a dj.

The family came to get physicals so they could take in foster kids. They were tired of seeing children sent out of their neighborhood.

More about SHAC HERE.

An immigrant family. The father did construction. The mother was a housewife. Their son was sick with a fever.

This was the result of a challenging assignment I got to do a story on one of the orphanages established in Thailand’s Phang-Nga province in the wake of the 2004 tsunamis.

I spent a week (out of the three I had available to me) trying to gain access to one orphanage before realizing that the staff were saying “yes” with their mouths, but “no” with their actions. That, in itself, was a lesson cross-cultural storytelling.

Finally, I was brought to Home and Life, who instantly opened their doors to me.

Then I got sick.

This was my first project in this multimedia setting and there is a lot I would do differently. I am pretty sure the material I gathered in the making of this project will percolate out in some other form in the near future, but until then …

Wonderful people. Wonderful mission. For more on them click here.