Photos with the Easter Bunny

Hempstead Boys and Girls Club and United Methodist Church in Hempstead hosted an Easter Egg Hunt and breakfast for the families in the community.

a lil lighting experiment

A couple of studio-style shots from this weekend in brooklyn.  Featuring two photographers (including myself) as models!









I'll definitely be using a setup like this in the future. For the photo geeks out there, here's how we did it: 50 mm lens with 2 strobes, umbrella on a stand, as well as a disc Sunshield to bounce off the strobe for the high intensity light.

La Republica Dominicana

Some of the best shots from last month in the Dominican Republic.

Jenny Checo

Cabarete




Hotel Kaoba, Cabarete






Chantal Espinal

Cabarete, República Dominicana

Spent the last week and a half taking tons of pics in the Dominican Republic.  Here's some of the most wild and fun ones from this last weekend at a nightclub on the beach in Cabarete.




Roger Zayas, famosa cantante de Los 440 el grupo de Juan Luis Guerra, y increible fotografo tambien.

Colorful brothas in Brooklyn

gotta show love to some brothas who are willing to let it all hang out.
props to the Etaniel, Asadullah, Kamean and the rest of the brooklyn crew in East NY.

Recent work

Portraits from the past month and a half.  My photo life has improved since picking up some lighting equipment.







Its fun to shoot with strobes!

Enric Sifa

Enric is an inspiration to many, a Rwandan born musician of incredible talent (myspace.com/enricsifa) and an endearing presence if you ever have the chance to meet him.  While in Kigali I befriended him, or shall I say, he befriended me. Anyways, every chance I get to go to Portland I make sure we catch up.

Portraiture

Knowledge of self is a key to personal progress.  I find that recently I have come into knowing who I am as a photographer more than ever. I seek to document the faces of the voiceless, the eyes of the dispossessed, which so often show much more joy than pain.



 
This photo is of a school girl in a village outside of kigali Rwanda in June 2009.