Above: Brett Dennen on the Main Stage

Virginia never looked so good. The rolling mountains of Appalachia sliding into autumn flavors; crisp, clear, star-filled nights tempered by the mid-day deep blue cloudless sky; sweet rhythms filing the air and a few thousand music enthusiasts camping in the meadows of the Devils Backbone Brewery — it was The Festy Experience.

In its second year, The Festy is a (more…)

I was recently invited to photograph The Aspen Institute’s Partners For a New Beginning Summit in Washington, DC. The summit brought together representatives from across the Middle East and North Africa to help promote new partnerships in the region. According to the Institute’s website, “Partners for a New Beginning (PNB) is an alliance to foster public-private partnerships that are committed to broadening and deepening (more…)

Last weekend I took part in the TEDx Conference at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. TED is a non-profit devoted to ideas worth spreading. The acronym stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. Though, over the last 25 years TED has come to embody a much broader scope. Leading thinkers and doers in their respective fields – from astrophysics to urban planning and spoken word poetry to (more…)