Poet Jorn Ake
Monday night the poet Jorn Ake was in town giving a reading from his latest book at The Elliott Bay Book Company in their new Capital Hill location. it was the first time I had visited Seattle’s legendary independent bookstore new location and was impressed that they very much kept the spirit of the old [...]
Corporate Executive Portrait
Recently I was working on my archive and I stumbled upon this executive portrait of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer which I shot on assignment for Yahoo Business Magazine. Although he did not give me a ton of time Ballmer was very gracious with me despite what I had heard from others. Coincidently Mocrosoft today announced [...]
Tomasz Stanko | Jazz Photography
Here are some more pictures from last weeks Tomasz Stanko and his New Quintet performing music from their CD release Dark Eyes
Tomasz Stanko and his quartet, featuring pianist Alexi Tuomarila, drummer Olavi Louhivuori, Anders Christensen on bass, and Jakob Bro, on guitar, put on a cool, mesmerizing and memorable [...]
Gebhard Ullman | Clarinet Trio Jazz Photography
Gebhard Ullman Clarinet Trio performing at the Chapel Performance Space.
Wow. I was not sure what to expect from a trio of clarinets coming out of Berlin, but I was blown away by the talents of Gebhard Ullman, Juergen Kupke and Michael Thieke and their music from their opening number as they slowly strolled through the [...]
Ingrid Laubrock
Ingrid Laubrock playing with KRIS DAVIS’S STONE TRIO at Tulas as part of the 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival. Ingrid is a jazz saxophone player (alto, soprano, tenor, and baritone saxes) from Germany who is based in London, England. She is a member of the F-IRE Collective. In 1998, she released her first solo [...]
Salumi | Salumi Artisan Cured Meats by Armando Batali
On another photography assignment for the New York Times I was sent to photograph Armando Batali at Salumi his restaurant and meat processing plant place near Pioneer Square. He is holding some of his signature salumi in this first photo it is a leg of lamb that he cured for Lamb “Prosciutto” in the aging [...]
Cascadia Restaurant
An assignment came in from the New York Times to photograph a number of restaurants in Seattle that served what the food writer Mark Bittman considerd the “best place to eat salmon in Seattle”. One of the places I went was Cascadia. Chef Kerry Sear first made a name for himself in Seattle at [...]
Robert Shiller | Portrait
Robert Shiller, American economist, academic, and best-selling author was in town a little while ago and I was assigned to make a portrait of him. Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. But perhaps [...]
Cannabis Crusader | Editorial Portrait
For an assignment for The Chronicle of Higher Education last week I photographed Sunil K. Aggarwal, above, who is in his final year of an M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of Washington. They were running an article on him because of his efforts to convince the American Medical Association to help get marijuana reclassified as [...]
Wayne Horvitz & Briggan Krauss
At The Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center Thursday night, Wayne Horvitz, Briggan Krauss, and Lê Quan Ninh perform as the Earshot Jazz Spring Series continues strong.
Keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, tenor saxophonist Briggan Krauss, and percussionist Lê Quan Ninh, made up a diverse and crackling trio. Their set sparked and crackled with energy and [...]
Michael Jackson
As Michael Jackson’s memorial service was being held in L.A., I felt moved to go back to my files and pull up an old negative from the time when I got an assignment to see him perform and photograph him. We were all so much younger, and his music was a dominant note [...]
A Blue Martini
I had a recent assignment at the Metropolitan Grill in Seattle for an airline magazine which called for me to photograph one of their famous Blue Martinis. Shot on location. It went down easy as I was packing up the lights and tasted good after all was put away. Photograph by Seattle Photographer Daniel [...]
Duff McKagan – Editorial Portrait
Recently I photographed the legendary bass player for Guns N’ Roses Duff McKagan for Playboy. The Seattle native is writing a column called “Appetite For Investment” financial advice for Playboy.com readers. I made this photograph outside the Seattle climbing outfitters shop, Feathered Friends, where Duff was shopping for some warm clothing and [...]
Antonio Sanchez | Migration
Three time Grammy Award winner Antonio Sanchez brought his quartet to Jazz Alley tonight and blistered. Playing off of the saxophone tandem of Chris Potter and David Sanchez, and with veteran bassist Scott Colley, they played through a number of the songs on their 2007 album Migration.
“On a jazz scene brimming over with dazzling [...]
RALPH TOWNER And PAOLO FRESU
Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu put on a beautiful concert last Sunday night at the Triple Door as part of the Earshot Jazz Spring Series. I especially appreciated the sound of the classical guitar and the trumpet mingling together it was so sweet. Here are the rest of the pictures I wanted to share [...]
DUO | RALPH TOWNER And PAOLO FRESU
The duo of Towner and Fresu put on a beautiful concert. The sound of the classical guitar and the trumpet mingling together so fluidly was especially compelling. I never would have thought the sounds would be so sweet. I will post some more pictures of the performance by these two in the coming [...]
Editorial Portrait | Rafael I. Pardo
This past week I got another assignment for The Chronicle of Higher Education here in Seattle. This time it was a portrait of Rafael I. Pardo, an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law. The news article was headlined “Supreme Court Considers Case About Excusing Student Debt Through Bankruptcy” and it was about a [...]
Seattle Architectural Photography | MADRONA RESIDENCE
Recently I made some photographs of a residence in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle for the new website of Bennett Lavacot Architecture. The interior design was by Robin Chell Design. The owners of the house was thinking of moving to a new house they were going to build and were in discussion for the new [...]
Jurgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann, a German Protestant theologian, was in Seattle for a talk, not long ago and I was assigned by Seattle Pacific University to photograph him for their alumni publication Response. He was very interesting to photograph and I enjoyed hearing him speak about his book Theology of Hope.
His liberation theology is also [...]
Portrait of A Photographer – Remembering Eisie | Life Magazine Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt At 90
Recently I was reminded of a talk given by photographer Alec Soth at the Seattle Art Museum. He talked about his development as a fine art photographer from his early days up to the present and showed a lot of samples of his work. He answered questions at the end and discussed how he goes about [...]
USS NEW JERSEY (BB62)| Seattle Editorial Stock Photographer
Recently I got a request from a textbook publisher for an image I shot from a helicopter on assignment (back on Sept 12th 1999) of the USS New Jersey being moved away from the dock in Bremerton WA. She was on her last ocean voyage. She was one big ship with a lot of big [...]
Marc Seales Wins Golden Ear Award
Marc Seales received the 2009 Jazz Hall of Fame award from fellow University of Washington faculty member Coung Vu. The Golden Ear Awards are given out annually by the Earshot Jazz organization. Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards night is always a blast to see how the jazz community in Seattle comes together [...]
Tinariwen – The Touareg Blues
Tinariwen in Concert: Wonou Walet Sidati, vocalist, Elaga Ag Hamid, guitar, Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, guitar, Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, guitar, Eyadou Ag Leche, bass, and Said Ag Ayad on drum.
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As promised, here are some more images from Tinariwen’s [...]