I put my subjects into scenarios.
I try to judge what you'll best respond to. Sometimes it's talking to the cute cashier at the corner bodega; sometimes it's chasing down...
As I practice lighting, I’ve been thinking about what makes one of my portraits one of my portraits. At the surface, skill, familiarity, and necessary tools are important. I...
Sometimes you meet someone who makes meeting someone seem so easy. That was the way with Dave Floyd, a New York Life insurance agent I ran into at a...
Earlier this year I shot portraits with a new dancer friend, Remy Fernández-O'Brien. He invited me to join a six-week-soccer league, where I met his brother, Durán.
Durán's first name,...
Remy Fernandez-O'Brien is a dancer, DJ, and educator.
He's a proud Boriqua, hailing from Holyoke, MA—the highest-concentrated area of Puerto Ricans on the mainland. Though, like me, he's moonlighting as...
Even before the start, my mother guided me toward photography.
While on a vacation for her birthday in 2014, she asked if I wanted a camera, then split the cost of one...
Why does America need more portraits of black men?
Last week Jeronimo Yanez joined the ranks of so many police officers who have killed black men, women, and children with...
Welcome to Road to Rich's 2017!
If this is your first time, here's some packing advice. There may be snowpack, sunburn, margaritas, dancing, Bloody Marys, jaw-loosening clouds of THC, picking in the woods,...
In March, by chance, I ran into my friend Gabriel.
He invited me to participate in City of Roses, a photography show he imagined for Duel Brewing in Albuquerque. The focus of the show: a...
Last Friday I undertook the holy walk to Chimayó, New Mexico.
Some people undoubtedly walk to place themselves more literally in Christ's steps. Some probably walk for tradition alone. (Though I'd...
Recently, I started feeling like I'm 20 years old.
I mean as a young artist. At that moment, I felt like my poems were magic building blocks. Like when you're five years...