I’ve been writing for magazines for more than 25 years. First published in The British Journal of Photography and Petersen’s Photographic, I became the features editor and eventual longtime contributing editor for Outdoor Photographer and Digital Photo Pro. I served briefly as editor of Digital Photo magazine before its 2023 demise and have recently contributed to Wild Eye and the new Outdoor Photographer magazine.

As print magazines disappeared I began crafting editorial-style content for photography brands — most notably a long-running column about the business of professional photography for Sony’s AlphaUniverse. And now, thanks to the 2025 relaunch of Outdoor Photographer, I am fortunate to once again interview world class photographers about their passion projects.

My newsletter — .Art + Math,. — explores topics of interest to an audience of photographers, artists and anyone in the business of being creative. Selected essays are compiled in a collectible print edition available here, with a dozen or so excerpted below.

Several instances of my particular brand of generalized nonsense and meticulous whimsy have been published in McSweeney’s, Morning Moot, Yankee Pot Roast and elsewhere. I co-created the short films “A. Anonymous” and “Roy: The Man, The Myth, The Barber,” and contributed to the web series “Inside the Actor’s Studio Apartment.” I once spent a full year buying only American-made products and wrote about it on the “Bye, American” blog. My graduate thesis reframed the Neoplastic principles of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian in a photographic context, downloadable here.

I’ve had projects featured on ABC News and included as required reading at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. 💰

The following selection of profiles features singular photographers who have shared generously of their time and expertise.

“The Unguarded Moment”
Steve McCurry

“The Portrait’s The Thing”
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

“Forever Young”
Michael Dweck

“A Legacy Of Legends”
Jim Herrington

“In The Vale Of Kashmir”
John Isaac

“A Passion For Purpose”
Cristina Mittermeier

“When You Get Close…”
Eli Reed

“Reclaiming The Untitled Cowboy”
Norm Clasen

“Earth Is My Witness”
Art Wolfe

“With Child”
Howard Schatz

“This Imagery Is Not Real”
Michael Christopher Brown

“Taken By Storm”
Mitch Dobrowner