A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to be asked to get some pictures of Miguel Marin-Padilla, a retired Dartmouth professor still living in Hanover, NH with a full research lab set up in his basement. I’d never heard of the professor before, but learning more about his lifelong passion for painstakingly uncovering the…
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Fifteen years ago I strung together a handful of assignments for relief organizations and newspapers and got myself to the border between Kosovo and Albania just as the Serbian ethnic cleansing of Kosovo got underway and the first refugees started arriving. The desolate town of Kukes in Northern Albania was a sad, lawless place for…
Johnnie Carson, Former US Ambassador and retired Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, answers a question from a visiting Fellow taking part in the Young African Leaders Initiative at a dinner at Dartmouth College in July 2014
The editors at Dartmouth’s in-house magazine, Dartmouth Now, made good use of shots I took of the first group of Washington Fellows participating in the Young African Leaders Initiative. A great bunch of amazing individuals, they were fun to tag along with while they did team building adventures at Oak Hill in Hanover, NH. I look forward…
The good folks at Mountainview Publishing just dropped the summer issue of “Here in Hanover” magazine. They did a great job with the pictures I took a while back of the small Noodle Station restaurant in downtown Hanover, New Hampshire.
Fun little piece I got to shoot a while back. No, this is not “Dartmouth does Breaking Bad” — Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth does a crazy cool gourmet cooking elective, ostensibly to keep their wicked busy students from going completely nuts with anatomy and biology and lessons in bedside manners. I couldn’t stay to…
I have a really simple policy when it comes to telemarketers of any sort: if you call my house to sell your junk, then I’m not buying, even if it’s a cure for cancer or a unicorn that shits gold bricks. I’ve got all our phone numbers on the official “do not call” lists, and…
A legend after 35 years of boldly going where no white musician had ever gone before, Johnny Clegg spent a long weekend at Dartmouth College as a visiting Montgomery Fellow. More than just an epic performer, Clegg has a true passion for and profound theoretical understanding of South African culture, politics and traditions. He spent…
Had the distinct pleasure to cover the visit of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. She is one incredibly smart woman who does not miss a beat, and appears to be enjoying her autumn years to the fullest with teaching, consulting and countless other opportunities…
