
Along with all the talk of Facebook’s pending IPO last week I had two of my own Facebook connections pop up. First, I was called to photograph Facebook’s CSO (Chief Security Officer) Joe Sullivan for an editorial cover shoot. And then, I read that Rebecca Van Dyck was just hired by Facebook to head up their marketing department. I photographed Rebecca a few month’s ago for AdWeek while she was still Levi’s Director of Marketing.

Today over on A Photo Editor there’s a link to a Rodney Smith blog post about smiling in photos. Rodney doesn’t think smiling photos have substance. I don’t know that I agree with that, but I know I tend to like non-smiling photos. I have a total of seven on my entire website and only one in my portfolio (although it depends on what qualifies as a smile… there are some very slight smiles that I didn’t count). I tend to take things a bit further though… It seems I don’t even like people looking at the camera.

So this is what I’ve been working on the last nine months and I’m glad she’s finally here.

Another shot of Nick Zinner of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs taken for Blackbook Magazine at Public Works in San Francisco.

I photographed Hunx & His Punks for Blackbook Magazine at the San Francisco Library. I had never heard of them but I’ve been seeing them mentioned in a magazines quite a bit lately. They were an interesting and fun crew to work with.