October 2011

• Allegra Wilde hired me to write copy for her exciting new project, Eyeist (eyeist.com). It’s an online portfolio-review service that’s launching in January 2012. Her partners in Eyeist are Jesse Diamond, Micah Diamond, and Doug Dawirs.  

• Over the past year, I’ve worked on various photo-related copywriting projects for the design and branding agency Carbone Smolan. This month, they hired me to write copy for a brochure for a major camera manufacturer.

• The fall 2011 issue of Emerging Photographer is published. It’s our documentary issue and includes a feature on National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita; a think piece by Miriam S. Grotte, who once worked as an assistant to Susan Meiselas; insights from Patrick Witty, international picture editor at TIME; and a profile of LaToya Ruby Frazier, among other stories. I’ll post the link as soon as PDN uploads the magazine to issuu.com.

• I worked with LIFE.com on a pair of slideshows centering on photo appreciation, titled “What Makes Photos Great?” For the slideshow “Looking for Heroes,” I enlisted David Schonauer, former editor in chief of American Photo. His writing about portrayals of heroes of all stripes is intelligent and illuminating. Link: http://www.life.com/gallery/64811/life-looking-for-heroes#index/0 For "Closed Encounters: ‘The Unseen Eye,’” I asked collector W.M. Hunt to comment on selections from his beguiling new book, The Unseen Eye: Photographs From the Unconscious. Link: http://www.life.com/gallery/66061/closed-encounters-the-unseen-eye#index/0