May 2012

Karl Kaufman, Osterweis

Video portrait of filmmaker George Lucas

I’m honored to have my work selected for inclusion in American Photography 28.

Please take the time to check out all the amazing work from photographers the world over : American Photography 28

You can also see more from my series on amateur MMA fighting here.

Stanford University computer science professor and billionaire David Cheriton photographed in his office for Forbes Magazine.

April 2012

LA | SF

The co-founder and CEO of Zynga Mark Pincus at the Zynga offices.

San Francisco  |  2012

More photos from an ongoing project on amateur mixed martial arts fighters.

MK atop the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1987 shooting photos for a story on the 50th anniversary of the completion of the bridge.  Access was via a (very) small elevator that runs up a shaft inside the tower column.   Photo by George Sumner.

 Twenty-five years ago, on May 24, 1987, an estimated 300,000 pedestrians walked onto the Golden Gate Bridge – after it is was closed to vehicular traffic – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the completion of the historic span.  As a freelance photographer for the Los Angeles Times,  I had the best seat in the house for one of the most spectacular and breathtaking events in Bay Area history.  Circling in a helicopter minus it’s doors, we flew between 600-800 feet above the road bed.  With one foot on the skid I was able to lean out and shoot unobstructed using two cameras – one loaded black-and-white and the other color negative. People were packed cheek-to-jowl for as far as the eye could see.  This image ran on the front page of the next day’s paper.

May 27, 1987

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