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📍Vancouver 📸 frequent flyer with @nytimes @theatlantic @bloomberg etc.
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Swifties for @nytimes 🍬🎀💞✨🎤✨💞🎀🍬 gotta say the vibe was pretty high. Swifties are like the first sip from a bubbly drink. Effervescent. On the ground writing by @sarahberms larger piece written by Victor Maher
09 Dec 2024
Spent a month or so chasing around pigeon racers, breeders, tumblers, rolllers, showers and various clubs associated. So many thanks to everyone who had me by and answered my endless questions and passed on contacts for me to follow. 🕊🐦🕊🐦🕊 published by @victoryjournal
04 Jan 2022
Attempted (and hopeful) Elon Musk Whistle blower, Aaron Greenspan for @nytimes . Greenspan was seeking political asylum when I got the call that photographs would be needed for this story. My instructions were that nothing that could alert to his whereabouts were to be shown in the images, no buildings peeking from behind the drawn curtains, no streets, no shopping bags, nothing that could place him anywhere, not even furniture in the Airbnb in case trolls could figure it out from there. I was also not really made aware of the content of the story. I knew it was vaguely about a Whistle blower but that’s it. Greenspan is an interesting character to say the least having invented the first iteration of Facebook only for it to be ripped off by zuck, his well of fuel to go after tech moguls runs deep. Assigned by @brentmnyt from the Sunday Business desk. Also we got the dress page! Which is always fun.
03 Nov 2025
Earlier this year I worked on a story written by Farnaz Fassihi (UN bureau chief to @nytimes) about Artemis Ghasemzadeh. Ghasemzadeh fled Iran as a christian convert, a crime punishable by death under her countries current rule. She was deported by the United States to Panama, a country she had never been to. Fassihi wrote a story about her (maybe you recall the incredible images by @historiassencillas of deportees trapped in a panama hotel before being sent to camps in the Darien jungle). The story caught the attention of Ian and Naomi Elliot, a couple who run a Canadian Refugee resettlement program. It took many months and much fund raising but they got her to Canada where she has begun to rebuild her life. I was asked to accompany the family as they met Ghasemzadeh at the airport and brought her into the country and their home on Denman Island where they welcomed her with a Shabbat dinner and Christian Prayer. People are amazing, from Artemis to Farnaz to Federico and the Elliot’s and all the people involved. I’m in awe of you all ❤️
13 Oct 2026
A story for @nytimes biz desk (shout out @reneemelides) with writer @petersgoodman. A story i might re-name What Its Like To Have The Weirdest Neighbour In The World. Jkjkjkjk. Weird as in amazing and culturally huge and also confusing. But yes, basically a tariffs story. Always interesting to get out in the world and talk to the people dealing with these big sweeping global changes and see how it affects their daily lives. And in any case got to ponder on the canadian photographers question of the day- How DO you photograph a tariff dispute.
05 Oct 2026
Ok i thought I was done but im not. Ekatrina for @macleansmag assigned by @winerac for a story on the intensity of childrens sports ❤️
29 Sep 2026
Where do i even start. Firstly thanks to @winerac for this incredible assignment. This is Ekatrina, an 11 year old rhythmic gymnast, and admirably, someone who feels no need to smile for any camera, ever. She was beyond extraordinary, wholly herself, and truly annoyed to have her training delayed. Ekatrina eats sleeps and breathes rhythmic gymnastic- everything else is a waste of her time. My work around women’s sports and title IX, which, beyond belief, is under threat of repeal by US congress, is all about somone like Ekatrina being able to exist. This is a story on the intensity of children’s sports and Ekatrina understands the assignment, innately. ❤️ photographed for @macleansmag
22 Sep 2026
@jacobtremblay for @nytimes Tremblay is starring as the unabomber in an upcoming biopic and @amspen obviously had to dig into the details. Thanks to @hollis.j for the call, Tremblay for being a chill and patient subject @ntashhha for the assist and a major big thanks to @papaya.aiya and rene for letting me use their beautiful home to photograph in.
14 Sep 2026
Shambhalla for @nytimes with 📝 @mrichtel. We were there to look into the festivals drug testing capabilities and what it means to offer safe supply to 20k+ people looking to do designer drugs in a world that offers an increasingly toxic drug supply. Is it better to admit people are going to inevitably take drugs and help them be safe or to pretend they dont and hope that discourages use (the rave act)? Anywho, we learnt a lot! For example there is a quarter million doses taken at this festival and last year ankors tested over 300 ground scores (drugs found on the ground). Wow! Many thanks to @dmrtoast and @tiffanie.graham for the call and guidance and patients with the *cough* 182 photos i filed
11 Aug 2026
The absolute goat @gregforaday for @globeandmail (last slide). Photographed prior to his opening at @polygongallery The show runs until October and is 🫨🤯🫠🫡. Originally I was going to submit the passport photos individually but when i scanned them all together i thought it looked kind of messy and fun so filed like that. It got chopped up a little diff for design purposes but this probably is the closest i will ever come to design work. Thanks to @sarahpalmerphoto for the call 👋 and thanks to Mr. Girard for being so generous with his time when there was so much work still to get done in gallery.
14 Jul 2026
Gary, the (somewhat illegal) serval lives in a business park in abbotsford. Inside the warehouse, probably meant more for fiberglass or tires or maybe an irrigation specialist is a whole world of animals by no means meant to be in BC, but here they are, certainly through no fault of their own, all of them having been abandoned or lost or given up. Photographed at Wild Education for @thenarwhalca with dream girl @michellecyca
10 Jul 2026
Alright, i dont even know where to start but know this is not a fun one and tw/cw. Jason Sokolowski lost his teenage daughter to suicide after she had been manipulated and coerced by an online nihilist hate group called 764. If you dont know what 764 is (and other groups like it) good for you. But in the same breath its probably time to find out. I, myself was blissfully unaware until i had to go to tumbler ridge. -they operate primarily on platforms like discord and roblox but find their victims almost anywhere including minecraft, Reddit and any platform you can message on. One thing to note is that unlike other child sexual offenders they are not sexually motivated, they are often seeking notoriety. I dont usually post about the heavier things i have to go do because they feel bigger and more profound then can be communicated in a capital driven platform BUT the amount of people who dont know about these groups is scary. The internet is one hell of a drug and some little minds are too fresh, too innocent and cant process some of the stuff they see online. My time with Jason was a small view into the depths of hell these groups seek to create. This shit is real, its powerful, they are the new serial killers looking for children experiencing vulnerabilities but they hide behind screens. For bloomberg @businessweek
22 Jun 2026
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