This fall I had the opportunity to photograph creative activist/consultant/life coach Julie Ann Otis’ interactive installation “American Therapy Booth” while it was set up on Atlantic Wharf in downtown Boston. This was my second time working with Julie Ann — I shot her installation “Free Verse” in Union Square in Somerville, back in 2015. You can read more about the installation on her website.
Last year, one of my old college suitemates reached out to ask me to take some group/family type portraits for her. She and her friends were graduating and going their separate ways after living together during school, and they wanted to commemorate their time together. So they packed up their trusty living room couch, brought…
Swollen, 2024, 13 x 17” Acrylic, mixed media art waste (including watercolor, spray paint, paper, resin, and lightbulbs) on canvas K.C. MacPhail and Ray Bernoff “Swollen” expresses our experience with pain caused by chronic inflammation, marrying Ray’s waste-based art practice with K.C.’s portraiture to create something swollen and suffocating. The subject is exhausted, resigned to…
This post isn’t called “dream cake” because it’s my favorite cake — it’s called that because I had a dream in which I ate almond-pistachio cake and I was so intrigued by it that I made up a recipe for it and tried to replicate it in real life. I thought it was a little…
I’ve been doing pretty much all of my own bike repair lately. Feels good.
Back in August, I did production design, makeup, and behind the scenes photography for Joshua Gray and Ben Hosking’s short film ‘Better Off.’ It was a long, sweaty, buggy shoot in the armpit of New Hampshire, but we powered through and I think the final product is going to be great.
Back when it wasn’t nasty out, my friend Matthew and I took a trip to Mount Auburn Cemetery to take some photos. You can see Matthew’s work (as well as some amazing poetry) on Instagram here.