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A slaughter house employee at Prather Ranch in Northern California. Shot for modern farmer magazine. Whole edit here.
Prather Ranch for Modern Farmer Magazine. Story about the current state of Humane Slaughter practices. Full edit here. Contains graphic images.
Dry aged beef at the Prather Ranch slaughter house. Shot for Modern Farmer Magazine. Full project here. Project contains graphic photos.
This is my homage to Brian Fink.
This is Alan Simpson the first time I photographed him at his home in Cody, Wyoming for BBW. There is no way to really explain how crazy he is unless you meet him in real life but he was full of good stories, dirty jokes and some straight talk about the finances of our great nation.
He was incredibly welcoming and got my assistant and I into the Buffalo Bill museum for free since we had some time before our flight and even told us where we could find “Beer that would make us shit through a screen door at a thousand yards” (still not sure if that is good or bad).
Coffee Maker at Reedy’s Service station. Outtake from Paonia Colorado.
One more of the Paonia Reservoir for Businessweek magazine.
Pete’s Barber Shop. Paonia Colorado. Full edit here.
Bobby Reedy for the aforementioned fracking story for Businesweek.
Bobby is one of my favorite people I have ever photographed/hung out with on a story. He operates pretty much the only filling/fix it station in town. I was told he was the guy with the local knowledge and to touch base with him as soon as I got there. I showed up at his shop at 6:30 in the morning and drank coffee/tar with him as a stream of local good old boys came by to shoot the shit before the days work started. There were three generations of Reedys running the shop. It was pretty cool. He still pumps everybody’s gas for them. While he may seem like a character from the Andy Griffith show, he could curse like almost nobody i’ve ever heard.
I spent two days in the beautiful town of Paonia Colorado for Businessweek last month for a story about the battle over fracking coming into the area. This was one of the best shoots of my life. Not just because it was interesting and pretty looking but the people I encountered in Paonia were top notch. I didn’t meet anybody I didn’t like there. Everybody was incredibly helpful and totally willing to help me out. Add that to the incredible, healthy, local food I got to eat most of the time and I was totally living the dream. I would shoot for 16 hours (which I did) a day all day every day if it was always like this. Check out the gallery on my website.
