Slaby recently spent several days photographing the Haverfield family for Audubon Magazine. The Haverfield’s have been embroiled in a long-running war with the county in which their cattle ranch sits over the presence of prairie dogs on the property. The Haverfields believe the prairie dogs contribute to increased productivity on their ranch. Old school western Kansas does not. You can read more about the debate and view more pictures on Slaby’s blog, here.
Slaby recently photographed Patagonia Sportswear founder Yvon Chouinard for U.S. News & World Report’s Best Leaders issue. Chouinard, an avid climber and outdoorsman, describes himself as a natural innovator and a reluctant businessman. Patagonia’s business model is unique in that it encourages responsible growth and has a built in system that returns 1% of its net sales to environmental causes. The company also pays employees to work full-time on environmental issues.
You can view more photographs and read more about the process on Slaby’s blog, here.
David Walter Banks recently spent some time photographing Roberta Antonio for the Wall Street Journal. As the economy has declined, employers have cut benefits, staff, shared health costs, and retirement contribument at alarming rates. Some people, like Antonio, have been able to hang on to lost jobs by coming back in a contract capacity. Antonio has even found that she likes working from home as an added benefit.
David Walter Banks recently spent the day with Tom Dunn, a former defense lawyer for death row inmates, has traded the courtroom for the classroom and now teaches language arts at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School near downtown Atlanta. Dunn now feels that he has a chance to change the course of lives before it’s too late. To read more and check out the nytimes slideshow click here.
Kendrick Brinson photographed Dr. Tom Frieden, the new director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, for Atlanta Magazine.
Slaby recently photographed an essay on Aurora, Colorado, the mundane, bedroom community where alleged terror plotter Najibullah Zazi resided before his arrest and extradition. More can be read about the assignment at Slaby’s blog, here.
The article is available here. Time’s online essay can be viewed here.
Slaby recently photographed the Shearn family for The Wall Street Journal. The Shearns purchased their seven bedroom home in Cherry Hills Village, an exclusive, gated suburb of Denver, for more than $900,000 below it’s original list price. The house sold for slightly less than 1.3 million dollars as a short sale, a pre-foreclosure type of transaction that allows the bank and the troubled seller to move the property before repossession. The bank takes the proceeds of the sale, usually less than the outstanding balance on the property, in order to avoid the expense and burden of foreclosure proceedings.
The full article can be viewed here.
Kendrick Brinson photographed David Coleman, the “Dating Doctor,” as he prepared for and gave a talk at North Georgia State College and University. Mr. Coleman, who is the real-life Hitch, gives approximately 200 speeches all over the country each year.
After a battle in court last Friday an Atlanta judge ruled that Grady Memorial Hospital could close it’s free dialysis clinic for uninsured individuals. After the ruling the hospital offered to assist in payment for dialysis elsewhere for a period of three months. Grady also offered to financially assist patients in moving to other states where they may be covered by Medicaid or returning to their home country. I spent some time with a few of the patients at a meeting with their lawyer before the ruling last Wednesday and was moved by their stories. I hope and wish the best for them, but for many the end of that three months will be a sentence to death. My prayers are with them. To read the stories click here or here.
Kendrick Brinson photographed Atlanta residents retrieving items from their flooded homes in Buckhead for The New York Times. See more on her blog here.
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