According to one Bond villain, “There’s no news like bad news.” Which is generally true when it comes to most spot news. Since I freelance, I only cover the occasionally news assignment. Sure these aren’t the most enthralling photos or stories, but it’s on assignments like these I start to feel like I am a part of something and I am making a contribution as a witness.  So here’s a brief synopsis of these photos. Enjoy:

-police raid on drug den

-apartment fires

-food shortage at the food bank

-road construction

-closing of Borders Books (sad day, that was my favorite bookstore growing up)

-Memphis preparing for last spring’s floods

-death of Steve Jobs

-Musicians funeral for street musician Rudy Williams, the Mayor of Beale Street

-Funeral for Memphis Tigers Basketball coach, Larry Finch

Here are my favorite images from feature assignments I covered in 2011. Enjoy.

Most of my year freelance boils down to making portraits of people from artists to businessmen, from gardeners to athletes, from dreamers to the devout.

Here are some of my favorite portraits from 2011. Enjoy.

Welcome to the my new wordpress blog!

This is the first in a series of posts looking back at my work last year.  To kick things off this slideshow is my localized version of TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Protestor. While I did not cover any groups that “occupied” anything. I did cover rallies, debates. arguments and picketers for school charters, bike lanes, union workers, environmental activism, and so on. So, here’s to the protestor.