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Show Pony Magazine Feature on Hand-Made Subject Koehler Craft

Over the past year, I’ve been working on a personal project that features artists and craftsmen who work with their hands for a living. This project, called Hand-Made, recently took me westwards to San Diego where I had the opportunity to add two amazing shoots to the project. Images from one of the shoots, was...

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Plus One Surfboards: Portrait of a Surfboard Shaper

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently traveled to San Diego to continue with my Hand-Made series. The first shoot from the trip featured the ship-building crew at Koehler Kraft. The second shoot features the fine folks at Plus One Surfboards. Given my admittedly superficial knowledge of the surfing industry, one of the owners of Plus One, George Gall,...

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Koehler Kraft: Portrait of a Ship Builder

A few weeks ago, I traveled to San Diego to continue with my Hand-Made project which features artisans, craftsmen, and workers who make their living using their hands. While in San Diego, I set up two shoots with two artisans who do amazing work with their hands and whose work really personifies the lifestyle of...

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Philadelphia Environmental Portrait: Will Brown of Francis the Duke Barber Company

Barber shops are an odd institution. The concept of a man walking into a barber shop in order to kick back, relax, pontificate about sports or some other innocuous topic while getting a haircut or a shave, seems like something borrowed from a simpler time in America. A time when things moved slower and there...

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