Behind the Shot
This weekend I was invited out to my alma mater, the University of Massachusetts, to photograph their hockey team face off against Boston College. In front of a sold out crown and Bucci Mane himself, UMass scored the game winning goal with just 2 seconds left in the third period.
Read MoreEarlier this year I received a call from my friends over at Reebok who had a mission for me. Travel out to Houston a few days later to film and photograph JJ Watt at his home along with one of his friends from the United States Navy SEAL community and a couple Reebok Designers.
Read MoreMy good friends at Reebok called me in to photograph 2 time Crossfit Games champion and Olympian Tia-Clair Toomey of Australia. We had an absolutely blast working together at Reebok Crossfit ONE in Boston.
Read MoreA few months back I was approached by a group of guys who had recently purchased a manufacturing plant in the Northern New Hampshire town of Lancaster.
Read MoreBoston nonprofit, Shooting Touch G3, held a basketball game between local girls on their AAU team and the female police officers of the Boston Police Department. The Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura Healey, joined the G3 girls who won on a buzzer beater by one basket.
Read MoreToday is the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, a day to recognize the positive influence sport has on the advancement of human rights, and social and economic development.
Read MoreMy favorite image from the trip is not the backflip or shark, it's of 17 year old weightlifting phenom, CJ Cummings. When he got back in the boat after his first snorkel above a coral reef we asked him how it went and his response blew us away..."Pretty cool, that was my first time in the ocean."
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Within the next 30 minutes Victoria posted to her social channels amassing over 150K likes. Countless fashion brands such as Vogue and HighSnobiety shared the image in their own articles about the new partnership. Overall the shoot was a great success resulting in most importantly the approval and satisfaction of both Victoria and Reebok.
Read MoreFor the second year in a row I have been hired by Roxbury based nonprofit, the BASE, to create their annual fundraiser gala celebration video. This year we decided to film a few events along the way to capture b-roll.
Read MoreI caught up with Ellen and her team during the beginning of summer training camp out on the Charles River.
Read MoreShot on my 3rd trip to Rwanda for Shooting Touch, a basketball nonprofit with the mission of using sport to educate and empower at-risk and the communities in which they live. For this film I utilized an incredible speech by Shooting Touch Board Member and Athletic Director of the Noble & Greenough school that he gave to a group of new coaches in Nyamirama, Rwanda following a coaches clinic.
Read MoreLast week I had the pleasure of heading out to a small park in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood to photograph the Shooting Touch G3 annual free basketball camp for girls. The G3 camp partners with female police officers in Boston for 1 week of nonstop basketball skills, drills and mentorship.
Read MoreBack in January, Reebok brought me out to the Bahamas for their annual athlete summit. Our mission was to capitalize of all the top Crossfit athletes locatied in one place and create a catalog for their social media channels to be released over time.
Read MoreBoston based nonprofit, the BASE, recently commissioned me to direct and produce a film about their program. I was given almost full creative control with the mission of telling a great story in a cinematic way. Luckily, a great story is not hard to tell when they are real and happening constantly around an organization like the BASE.
Read MoreFor the first time in 4 years and really for the first time as an "adult," I took an entire week off. As a freelance photographer it's extremely scary to take off time during the first few years of your career. Questions like "What if I miss out on a huge job?" "What will my clients say when they can't reach me?" "Will this end my career?" all constantly haunted me leading up to my first vacation.
Read MoreI had the pleasure of photographing the "Fittest Woman on Earth," 2015 Crossfit Champion Katrin Davidsdottir for Gamplan-a, an Adidas Group blog. This is the story of that shoot.
Read MoreWhile the girls may have felt they were there just to improve their skills or simply have a good time, they were constantly getting lessons and quick lectures from the ST coaches, who happen to be Mass General nurses, and the BPD.
Read MoreA few months ago Reebok flew me out to Wisconsin in a blizzard to film JJ Watt's first reaction to his signature shoe the JJ I Trainer.
Read MoreFor about 3 years I have helped coach a little league team in my home town of Easton, MA. I've done this for a few reasons. 1. I love baseball 2. I love working with kids 3. Owning your own business is stressful as hell. When I go to the ball field I leave my cell phone in the car, forget about bidding on projects, and just enjoy the game.
Read MoreThere's something majestic and personal about filming this close to a master of their craft, especially for that amount of time. The massive gym was empty. Young girls would enter periodically in preparation for their own workouts but for most of the time it was just Aly and me. We had to figure each other out and gain some sort of trust in the middle of a workout without really being able to speak to each other beforehand.
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