Gig: Christian Science Monitor

I also had a gig with the Christian Science Monitor right before the Tracy Silverman gig.  It's been published and you can read the article here.  It's a great piece on religion and politics.  They are also other articles of others from different faiths.  Being in Tennessee, I photographed a surprisingly photogenic, Southern Baptist ... Brian Weldy.  

Brian was really great to meet me at his church of 15 years in Franklin, TN to take a few quick picks.  

They used this one ^

All Photos ©2012 Martin B. Cherry

Gig: Tracey Silverman and Terry Riley

As you can see from the previous post. I made a promotional video for Tracey Silverman and Terry Riley. For print promotions, they used some my photos and video stills. Here are a few:

Nashville Symphony's website

WPLN (Nashville Public Radio)

The above images was also used in the Indy Star and NPR

Here are others: 

Still from the video

Black and whites

Portrait

Currently, I am editing a new video for Tracy.  A "behind the scenes" look of his rehearsals, Q&A and world premiere of PCR.  As you can see from the dates of performances, Tracy performed masterfully at Nashville, Carmel and Carnegie Hall.  Congrats and many thanks to Tracy and his manager, Mitchell Korn.  It was amazing to work with them and meeting a legend in the music world, Terry Riley.  Truly an honor.  

All photos ©2012 Martin B. Cherry.  

Reuters photos of the year.

Happy holidays and happy new year.  Here are some of Reuters' best of 2011.

 REUTERS/Jason Lee

REUTERS/Damir Sagolj 

 REUTERS/Anis Mili

 REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Please go to this link to see all 100 images, behind-the-scene comments by the photographers and even camera settings used to make the image.  

Photographer of the Month: Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark is street photographer who inspired my photography in college.  Her revealing, uncropped images were an inspiration for me as a photojournalist.  I never liked cropping my images too much.  I shoot for what I wanted in the camera rather in the computer.

I believe in today's world of iPhones and camera-phones, everyone does some form of street photography now.  Usually for humor, cuteness, updates of their own life or news, but Mark's photograph's are deeper than that.  They are reminiscent of paintings of realsim in the 1850's.  Like she explains in the video, it reveals truth.  Mary Hellen Mark is the modern day realism artist.




(via New Yorker Magazine)

FIRE!!!

After seeing a taping of "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" at TPAC.  I saw a large orange glow from a distance with a huge plume of white smoke. Naturally, I drove to the fire to see what happened. Luckily, I had my camera gear in my car.  

You can see more about the fire here. 

And see more images here.

photo © 2011 by Martin B. Cherry

100 days of photographs

© Callie Shell / Aurora for Time

Callie Shell has photograph Barrack Obama since 2004. Above, is part of a photo series of the Obama administration's first 100 days in office.

In this video documentary, Shell describes how she captured behind-the-scenes images of the Obama White House.