THE LAST ANOINTING
For The New York Times; June 2020
Unable to visit her father in the hospital as he died of Covid-19, Dunia Barrios watched through a Facetime livestream as Fr. Ryan Connors administered the Anointing of the Sick to her father, Otto. Donned in full PPE, Fr. Connors took a cotton swab dipped in holy oil, and lightly anointed Otto’s arms and forehead, giving him […]
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AMADO’S SUNLESS WORLD
For The New York Times; October 2019
Underground Lives: The Sunless World of Immigrants in Queens The six men who live in the basement apartment are rarely—if ever—in the space together at the same time. Differing work schedules and no real desire for household friendship means these men are circumstantial roommates no different than guests at the same transient hotel. When their […]
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NO ESTUVE AQUÍ
2016 - Ongoing
For the last four years I have been returning to Mexico for both work and for myself. In February 2017 I spent a month in Mexico, working in Mexico City and traveling to Oaxaca and my grandmother’s birthplace of Juchipila, in the state of Zacatecas. After my Grandmother moved to California from Mexico in the […]
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SIKH PROTEST LANGAR
For The New York Times; June 2020
One of the major tenets of Sikhism is langar: the practice of serving free meals to visitors at Sikh places of worship called gurdwaras. Gurdwaras are closed because of the pandemic, but the practice persists as Sikhs have been making meals and delivering them to New York communities vulnerable to the coronavirus. In the first two […]
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SAHARA MARATHON
For The New York Times; April 2019
Elite athlete and unilateral amputee, Amy Palmiero-Winters, participates in the 2019 Marathon des Sables, a six day 140 mile ultramarathon through Morocco’s Sahara Desert. Along with New York Times sports reporter Jeré Longman, we followed Amy from Long Island to Morocco and through every step of the grueling ultramarathon. She was the first female amputee in […]
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Inside Football’s Campaign to Save the Game
For The New York Times; November 2019
With a population of under 3,500, Maiden, North Carolina calls their city “the biggest little football town in the world.” Football is still the most popular boys high school sport in the United States, but participation has dropped considerably in the last ten years, including the varsity team at Maiden High. I spent couple days […]
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‘We’re Going to See What Else the Word Funeral Can Mean’
For The New York Times; April 2020
Theresa Schilizzi never got a chance to say goodbye to her father, Anthony. He fell ill with Covid-19 and passed away in the hospital, isolated and alone, and his funeral in late March was limited to ten people, six feet apart. The usual ways we grieve a loved one’s death cannot apply in this pandemic […]
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MURDERVILLE, GA
For The Intercept; January 2018
When a brutal murder rocks a small town in south Georgia, residents and police are shocked. Could the new guy in town be the one who who did it? Yes, the cops say, he is. Case solved. But then another murder happens. And another. In the end: four bodies, two convictions, and one man in […]
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The Déjà Vu of Mass Shootings
For The New York Times; July 2018
I knew I was getting close because Google Maps displayed a red bull’s-eye with “Annapolis shooting” instead of the actual address, 888 Bestgate Road, Annapolis, Md. In between a TD Bank and the Annapolis Plaza Shopping Center, Google had locked in my location like it was some sort of amusement park. In fact, I had […]
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HOW PHOTOGRAPHY EXPLOITS THE VULNERABLE
For The New York Times; August 2018
Written for The New York Times Photojournalism is built on the idea that photojournalists are witnesses to history. Part of our job is to visualize issues the general public does not have immediate access to. We have a responsibility to portray the visceral realities of an often devastating world, but we also have a responsibility […]
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AMERICAN MIDTERMS
For The New York Times; 2018
In 2018 I worked in California, Pennsylvania, and Missouri covering the 2018 midterm election campaign for The New York Times. I covered mostly rural, suburban, and agricultural regions of the country, and there I witnessed differing visions of how Americans understood their future and their country. America’s rural regions are often painted as monoliths fighting […]
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LA VIRGEN de GUADALUPE
For The New York Times; December 2018
Over the past 500 years La Virgen de Guadalupe has evolved into a powerful symbol of political, cultural and religious identity for Mexicans and Latin Americans all over the world. Many indigenous today still see Guadalupe as a syncretic mixture of Mary and Tonantzin, the Aztec mother goddess who was worshipped on the same hill […]
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Hell on Wheels
For ProPublica, June 2018
Fatal accidents, off-the-books workers, a union once run by a mobster. The rogue world of one of New York’s major trash haulers. A ProPublica investigation into Sanitation Salvage. After the publication of this investigation, Sanitation Salvage surrendered their license to collect trash in New York City and ceased operations permanently. Photographed on assignment for ProPublica
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