Last year (and this year!) I had the honor of taking the photos for the ACLU of MA’s annual report. The report is here in PDF form if you want to read about what the ACLU of MA was up to last year, and I’ve posted some high res photos from it below.
The 2018 annual report was the first gig I did after having back surgery last year, and it was an great way to get back in the saddle after taking such a long, involuntary break. I drove nearly 300 miles, met a bunch of amazing people, and took so, so many photos. I’m glad I got to start working again by documenting plaintiffs, volunteers, activists, and lawmakers who are fighting for a better world.
Leo, who worked on the Yes on 3 campaign, poses in front of the Freedom Massachusetts office.Lucimar, a plaintiff in the Calderon v. Nielsen case, poses with her son at her home in Everett. ICE illegally imprisoned her after she went to a CIS office to validate her marriage, and the ACLU’s lawsuit put pressure on them to reunite her with her family.Nicole and Herschelle pose in front of the Springfield courthouse. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that misconduct at the state’s Amherst drug lab lead to them being wrongfully convicted.Cassandra (R), canvassing coordinator for the “What a Difference a DA Makes” campaign in Worcester, meets with her canvassers before a long day in the field.Carol, the ACLU of MA executive director, poses in the ACLU of MA’s office in Boston.Kade, the ACLU of MA’s technology for liberty director, poses against a mural in Boston.MA State Senate President Emerita Harriette Chandler and sponsor of the NASTY Women Act, poses in her office in the State House.Damaris stands in the school in Natick where she just voted for the first time.
Last week I shot Somerville’s annual marshmallow fluff festival, “What the Fluff,” for the Somerville Journal. See all the photos on their site at WickedLocal.
Here’s another from the archive: promotional profile pics for Torn Ticket II’s production of the musical Assassins in March 2018. We were going for varying shades of ‘deranged’ with these, hence the facial expressions.
Here’s yet another set of photos from a Tufts Dining event. I find it’s difficult to keep event photos from looking same-y after a while — even though the decorations and food are different for every event, after a while you start to learn the angles and light in the dining centers so well that…
Here’s another from the archive: Cassidy, Haley, and Alex’s group senior portrait shoot. They’re a trio of friends who also went to Tufts, and they wanted some grad photos to send to family and headshots they could put on LinkedIn. Here’s what we came up with.
Here’s something different: costumes. Last semester, the Tufts Drama and Dance Department offered a class called “Sew-cial Activism,” where students studied costuming as a form of political statement and made their own political costumes. See if you can guess what all these costumes are about. You can mouse over the images to see the answers….
Tufts was still putting the finishing touches on its newest building, the Science and Technology Center, when classes started this fall. Here’s my photo of the day: some rolled sod waiting to be laid out outside SciTech by maintenance workers.
