Parkour Summer

This summer I've been spending time shooting parkour with my friend Deyvid García.
His dream is to one day be sponsored in the sport and I'm helping him put a portfolio of photographs together.  

Four days ago Deyvid graduated from Highschool.  As if that wasn't reason enough to celebrate, he just landed his first role in an upcoming film on parkour.
YES!!

We met in Central Park late afternoon; right after he was done for the day selling clothes at The Gap.  Afterward the shoot we chowed down on some Japanese ramen. Deyvid skated all the way home to the Bronx and I got on a train going back to Harlem.

A little summer fun at the Highline Park NYC

A little summer fun at the Highline Park NYC with my friend Deyvid "Wolf" Garcia, rising parkour star.

REVIEWING PORTFOLIOS AT ASMP NY

It was my great pleasure to serve as a reviewer in this year's American Society of Media Photographers Portfolio Review in New York City.  Together with a very distinguished group of friends and colleagues, including Elizabeth Avedon, Jim Estrin and Ruben Natal-San Miguel among many others, we spent an evening looking at work by talented local photographers. 

Parisian photo daily L'Oeil de la Photographie dedicated a whole issue to the reviews asking each one of the reviewers to pick an artist to showcase on their pages.  My pick - as well as writer Rebecca Robertson's - was the very talented Jon Henry who is re-inventing the way athletes are photographed.  His lush prints are as much a tribute to Caravaggio as they are to the prowess, grace and dedication of professional athletes.