At 35,000 feet in the air, it’s hard for me to think of much else that scares me more than flying. It’s a primal fear, something for which I have an explanation but not a quick solution. For me, the practice of getting over this fear is not a game of mental chess that …
May, 2010 Archives
05.31.2010 by Matt Slaby
Legal Left, Meet Creative Right –Collections Pt. 3
05.31.2010 by Luceo Images
You Guess It
A new week and a new theme! Every other week we at LUCEO post iPhone and archive photos as part of a challenge that involves you, dear photography lover. We post photos Monday through Thursday based on a secret theme provided by a photographer or blogger or anyone in the photo industry, then we …
05.31.2010 by Matt Slaby
Antarctic Ice Core For The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal gave me a quick assignment in March to document the arrival of three trucks carrying ice core samples to the National Ice Core Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado. The ice cores were drilled in Antarctica, transported to port in California by boat, and shipped in refrigerator trucks directly to the facility. …
05.28.2010 by Daryl Peveto
Andrea Fleytas for The Wall Street Journal
Last week I shot portraits of Andrea Fleytas who was the only female employee for Transocean on the rig Deepwater Horizon which sank in the Gulf on April 22 causing the largest oil spill in the history of oil exploration. She was one of the last people off of the rig as her crew …
05.28.2010 by Kendrick Brinson
Abortion for The New York Times
Two weeks ago I had a crazy Friday/Saturday. Two shoots for my sisterhood column Friday, then another shoot that evening, then a late night drive to Birmingham, Alabama for an early shoot at an abortion clinic in the morning. I didn’t have much time in Birmingham due to a noon shoot outside of Atlanta …
05.28.2010 by Luceo Images
Weekly Roundup | 5-28
With the ten finalists selected for the LUCEO Student Project Award, we’ve entered a couple weeks in the holding pattern before all six of our photographers hit DC for our midterm meeting. Editors, DC-philes, and anyone else who happens to be in the area and would like to catch up, we’d love to hear …
05.27.2010 by Kendrick Brinson
Swine Flu: Two Shoots, One Story
I had two shoots for one story for Atlanta Magazine last month. The story was about the flu, and not just any flu, but the swine flu (H1N1). Specifically the swine flu outbreak of last year. Most specifically, the swine flu outbreak that killed a healthy man, John Behnken. A healthy man who was …
05.27.2010 by Matt Slaby
American Photo 26 Selected & Chosen Images
I was humbled to hear that several of my photographs have been selected for the American Photography 26 book along with fellow Luceo photographer, Matt Eich. Of four images, three will be published in the book and one will be displayed in their online gallery. One of the images was entered by Audubon Magazine …
05.27.2010 by Luceo Images
From the Archive
From the Archive is a regular column that features one image from our archive and appears every Thursday. LUCEO Images has a thorough group archive (keyword search bar, top right) and it can be found here.
This week we are featuring a photo from Kevin German, who is based in Vietnam.
Caption:
Lan Pham, 40, right, works on …
05.26.2010 by Matt Eich
In My Back Yard: In these brief moments
Sometime close to 10PM on May 19, 2010 I find myself sitting in a Shoney’s restaurant in Greenwood, Mississippi as it is one of the few places still serving food. After a day of travel, pat-downs, de-planing, re-planing and trying to meet people and make pictures I am exhausted and hungry. I sit in …