For the January/February issue of ESPN RISE, I shot Evan Craig of Abington Heights High School in Clarks Summit, Pennslyvania. Craig was undefeated last year and is currently the PIAAA Heavyweight Champion. He has won 2 cadet Greco-Roman National Championships and is currently ranked #2 heavyweight wrestler by Win Magazine. To view and purchase images from the shoot, click here.
Converse sponsors the Open Gym event where inner-city kids get together to play basketball in local gyms across the country. They play all day and a few kids are selected to try on the new sneakers. Someone always wins a pair at the end. Steve Boyle Photo has been covering the event since the beginning of 2009. View the images from the Philadelphia event held at Girard College below.
For ESPN RISE this month I shot senior Kyrie Irving and junior Michael Gilchrist of St. Patrick High School/Academy in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Kryie is ranked 6th in the nation for the class of 2010 while Michael is the #1 recruit in the nation for the class of 2011. Irving will be playing for Duke University for the 2010 season. This shoot was set up as an interview with a microphone since both players were essentially interviewing each other for the article. To view the article and the behind-the-scenes footage of the shoot, click here. The cover, opening spread, and additional images from the shoot are below. To view or purchase images click here.
My speciality is sports and action, but as mentioned before, the photo editors at American Medical News recognize that my talents can be applied to other things as well. For this particular assignment, I was hired to shoot a patient and a doctor at Penn State’s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, in State College, PA for an article on doctor relations with obese patients. There are many challenges of working in a tight exam room, but I worked with the space I had and am happy with the results. Other images and the article can be viewed on the AMN website here.
For the October Issue of ESPN RISE, Philadelphia Edition, I shot Dion Waiters from Life Center Academy in Burlington, New Jersey. He is ranked #14 on ESPNU 100. As mentioned on philly.com, before stepping foot on the basketball court in high school two years back, Dion had already committed to Syracuse Basketball in 2010. His intense talent has never faltered despite the incredible hardships he has faced throughout his life — loosing three cousins and a best friend, as explained in the ESPN RISE story. Waiters is a true inspiration. I like these images from the shoot and the tear sheets are below. To view or purchase images from the shoot click here.
A friend of mine from high school is launching an online vintage fashion store for eBay called Rack Traffic. The store is set to launch early 2010. We shoot 100 looks a day about 2 days a month. My friend took care of casting models for the shoot.
I personally auditioned in a white fur coat from the rack but didn’t make the cut. Not sure why.
When you travel you should always let the photo editors you work with know where you’re going. You never know where an editor might need someone for an assignment. I let the editors of ESPN RISE know that I would be in the Cape Cod/Boston/New England area to see if they had any location-specific assignments. It turns out they did. They hired me to shoot for their ESPN RISE Boston edition.
Here is a ridiculous test shot of me wearing the guys high school basketball uniform to make sure the red came out correctly against the blue background before the actual shoot took place.
For the story and photo shoot, ESPN RISE featured two high school basketball players, Katie Zenevitch, the best girls player in the state, and Carson Desrosiers, the top center in Massachusetts. Both players are from Central Catholic High School, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Katie will be playing for Boston College in 2010. Carson was signed to Wake Forest for their 2010 season. For this shoot, I decided to set up in the auditorium which doubled as their gymnasium. The curtain on the stage was used as my backdrop. I had the players jump off the stage onto a gymnastics mat. You can view the tearsheets below. To see more images from the shoot, click here.
I recently spent some time in Cape Cod, relaxing and chasing the light. We stayed in the town of Chatham. Since we couldn’t go in the water because of the sharks, I brought my friend Caitlin along with me to shoot some scenic running shots. During my chase, I got a speeding ticket in Cape Cod’s National Seashore. Some selects from the shoot are below. To view more, click here.
