If your flying American, check your seat back pocket for the September 1 issue of American Way Magazine for my photos of Chevy Chase.

Remarkably there are 4 different covers!

Thanks to Brynwood Golf & Country Club for letting us shoot there.  They totally hooked us up with everything we needed, including thousands of golf balls.

Behind the scenes by Micaela McLucas.

Styling by Valissa Yoe.

The crew, from left, Josh Freiwald, me, Art Director David Radabaugh, Micaela McLucas, Chevy Chase, Samantha Caruthers and Valissa Yoe

It’s a little late but I finally got a copy.  My Michael Stipe photo is on page 153 of the 2011 Photography Annual.

Anupam Mittal is an internet entrepreneur who started Shaadi.com, “the worlds largest matrimonial service”.  I photographed him in June for JWM, a magazine for the JW Marriott hotel chain.

Last October I photographed Murray Nossel for Forbes.  Murray, an oscar nominated director, teaches people how to tell stories through Narativ.  He also  does an amazing two man show with his friend Paul Browde called Two Men Talking.  We had a great shoot.  Thanks to Ramscale for letting us shoot there.

At the end of June I shot a The Chivas Brotherhood party for Urban Daddy.  I don’t usually shoot events but this was interesting.  They wanted someone to shoot portraits during the event.  They had Hazel Elder build a really cool set.  Once the party started, people began to come by to have their photos taken.  Then we projected them live, as we were shooting.  They also went up on Urban Daddy’s Facebook page as we were shooting.  It was intense.  I shouted for 3 hours.

David Zwirner, Leo Koenig, Bettina Funke, Tobias Meyer and Anton Kern- German players in the New York art scene for Manager Magazine.

David Zwirner

Bettina Funcke

Anton Kern and Tobias Meyer

Leo Koenig

A funny story: while talking to Leo Koenig during the shoot, we discovered that he moved into my very first NYC apartment, in Williamsburg Brooklyn, immediately after I moved out, in 1996.  It’s a pretty incredible coincidence.

If you’re flying American Airlines, be sure to check out your seat back for my Michael Stipe cover.  Michael is really great to work with.  I had the pleasure of photographing him once before, in 2004 for New York magazine.

You can read the story in American Way.

Here are some photos from my 2004 shoot:

Check the March 14 issue of Forbes for my photos of Clayton Christensen.  It’s one of my favorite covers I’ve done.  Read the story here.  Clayton is 6’8″ which took me completely by surprise!  Somehow I missed that in my research.  He has some really interesting ideas.  This one really blew my mind.

My friend Mark Wilson took some cool behind the scenes iPhone photos .

Big thanks to Robert Mansfield and the art department of Forbes for such a sublime cover edit and design.

Here are some of my favorite outtakes.  By the way, that’s a door he’s standing in front of, not a window.

Here are some recent baby photos I have been working on.  You can see more like these here.

If you are flying, check your seat pocket for the January 1, 2011 edition of American Way magazine.  They asked me to photograph him with a bunch of paper airplanes for the cover to mark the 45th anniversary of the publication.  I decided it would be best to composite them after the shoot.  We shot the planes separately in the morning before he arrived. You can see them below. He was really relaxed and easy to work with. Thanks to Betsy Semple at American Way for the call.   Thanks also to Stefanie Syat for grooming and Josh Freiwald and Seth Personett for helping me make all of those paper airplanes.

We shot the planes in the morning before John arrived

This photo was the inside opener in American Way. Also pictured are John's bulldog, Puddy, and our stylist for the shoot,Stefanie Syat.

I recently shot Tim Wu of Columbia University for Forbes.  It was a cool shoot.  Here are a few of my favorites. Tim is a very interesting guy. He is a law professor who is all about keeping the internet free. Here he is telling congress what for. And here is a great interview with him on Charlie Rose.  He has a new book called The Master Switch.

Check out my cover for the first ever Ipad only edition of Parenting magazine, Parenting Seasons.

and here is an outtake:

I just returned from a corporate which took me to Mexico City, London and Hyderabad, India, during the past 2 weeks, with a short detour to Delaware and Maryland for Thanksgiving.  I rented gear and hired my crews locally.  It was challenging to arrange but everything went perfectly.  I found great people and serviceable gear.  Thank you to Nicole Rixon of Central Film and Rodrigo Cassou who helped me in Mexico City.  Thanks to Kelvin Webb (pictured) and Fay Leith in London.  And thanks to Ajai and Vikash of India Film Services for getting me what I needed in India and a great crew (pictured).  Other than some issues obtaining my visa from the Indian Consulate and heavy snowfall in London, everything could not have gone smoother.  Thanks to the folks at Addison for giving me the opportunity to revisit two of my favorite cities and for the chance to catch a glimpse of India.  Here are some test photos from Hyderabad and London.

Flora White and Lady Cosima Summerset of Concierge London and New York at the Lowell Hotel in Manhattan for Forbes.  I can’t resist the opportunity to include a reflective sphere in a photo.  It’s my Arnolfini reflex.

I couldn’t believe my ears when Forbes magazine asked me to photograph the famous 20×24 Polaroid Land camera.  This is the very same camera used by Andy Worhol, Lucas Samaras, David Levinthal, Chuck Close, etc.  Built by Polaroid in the 70s, when they went bust in 2008 John Rueter rescued the camera and the film stock and put them to work at  20×24 Studio.  You can see the Forbes piece here.  Thanks to Jennifer Trausch, Director of Photography, and John for their patience with me, letting me touch it, and posing for pictures.

…sometimes you just have to hurry.

I recently photographed the CEO of Honeywell, David Cote, for NYSE magazine.

It was a cover shoot.  We set up 2 shots in an airplane hanger.

The cover setup lasted 1 minute 20 seconds

For the inside picture I shot 4 minutes.

Then he hopped in a plane and flew away.

We went next door and took some more pictures…

I have to say that I am always really pleased with the layout and reproduction in NYSE.

Thanks Victoria Rich at Time Inc Content Solutions for giving me the opportunity.

Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie

February 2009 I photographed the cast of a new Broadway Musical, Next to Normal.  Much to my surprise, the photos were put on the doors of the Booth Theater on 45th Street, between 8th and Broadway.  Each actor’s head is about 10 feet tall.  The show went on to be nominated for 11 2009 Tonys, winning 3 and more recently it won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  Some of the cast members have moved on and Serino Coyne asked me to photograph the new actors to update the doors.  They went up today.  I had the pleasure of bumping into Jason Danieley when I got there.  He is taking over the roll of the father, Dan.  The first performance with the new cast is tonight!

The Booth Theater 7/19/10, 222 West 45th Street

The first cast 4/2009

The quality of the prints on the doors is pretty incredible.  You have to see them to get the impact.  Serino Coyne did such a great job.  It’s really fascinating to see every little retouching decision amplified, absolutely every little detail becomes important.

From left: Jason Danieley, Jason Danieley and me

Meghann Fahy and Kyle Dean Massey

We should all put our faces on our doors to prepare those who enter for what awaits.

Thanks to Sean Pomposello, David Barrineau and Moira Finney of Serino Coyne and David Stone, the show’s producer, for the opportunity. Also thanks to Jacek Kuzniar for his assistance with the retouching, now from San Francisco instead of in my studio, and Stefanie Syat for doing a great job with the hair make up!