Month: July, 2007

reporting the war from home

31 July, 2007 (05:48) | work | No comments

Meg Tucker visits her son’s grave in Madras, Oregon. Pfc. Thomas Tucker was killed during an insurgent attack while serving in Baghdad in 2006. He and another soldier were missing for three days before troops found his booby-trapped body. I photographed her about a year later as American troops were again searching for missing […]

what’s in front of you

29 July, 2007 (11:32) | friends and family | No comments

One of my favorite people and picture editors, Mike Davis, and I were having lunch the other day. We talked about how I could start making pictures again. What with all the multimedia, It has been over a year since I really picked up my camera and tried to do anything meaningful with it. He […]

Ikea opens

28 July, 2007 (07:42) | work | 1 comment

This past Wednesday Ikea opened in Portland. Hundreds of people lined up (some for days) to rush into the furniture store, eat meatballs and buy $39 tables. It’s funny, although Ikea is all things Sweden, it’s opening was more American than anything I can imagine. There were bands, ROTC and people who wore skis while […]