Last night President Joe Biden gave a speech that marked the one year anniversary of the country shutting down due to the coronavirus. It was beautifully written and a real tearjerker. Until the president said that, I had kind of forgotten that the whole country experienced it at the same time..

I started writing this post a year ago, in April, as the numbers of Americans lost to the pandemic hit 50,000. This week, it hit ten times that number. A statistic that we simply can’t fathom..

I have photographed Ash Wednesday for over 20 years. I believe there is a special insight in returning to something year after year. This awareness is built into so much of our annual rituals, not just religious but also birthdays and anniversaries..

I photographed Trump for Fortune in January 2000, almost 21 years to the day of him reluctantly leaving office tomorrow. Mentioning his stubby fingers in the first paragraph, writer Jerry Useem, made him sound like a power-grubbing brat with questionable net worth. And in hiring me to take his portrait, Fortune’s photo department certainly couldn’t have had flattery in mind..

Doesn’t all of this we are living through prove that time travel is not possible because if it was, someone would have most certainly come back from the future to warn us by now? Way back in 2000, when Donald Trump’s political aspirations were still seen largely as a joke, I was commissioned by Fortune Magazine to photograph a feature on the real estate developer. I flew down to Mar-a-lago and spent a couple of days following him around..

My oldest daughter has a talent for math. She surpassed my abilities somewhere in elementary school. One day when she was in 1st grade she used the word “vertices”. I blanked..

10 years ago, I met Dr. Charles Kleinman, a renown cardiologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital, for an incredibly emotional story about both sides of a heart transplant where the donor's family and recipient got in touch with each other..

Since I started instagram years ago, I have become grateful for this space to share my work and now consider this a part of my creative process. I also consider myself fortunate that I have many engaged followers like you..

PFC Alba was walking home from the bus station through this field when I met him. He was taking the last remaining steps to his front door on his long journey from Korea where he had been based. This picture was taken before the Iraq war began in 2003 where Alba went on to serve two tours before retiring from the Marines..

I love Summer nights. The sounds of kids playing down the street, the smell of the warm air coming off the grass and trees after the sun goes down and the flickering of hundreds of fireflies off in the darkness..