This March, in a collaboration with veteran photojournalist Joe Patronite I shot and edited a short documentary video in Cleveland about HIV and AIDS in the African American community there. The story focuses on three women who have lived with the epidemic for most of its 30–year history.

While working in my archive, I felt like these two images went well together. So, I did a quick diptych in Adobe Lightroom.

I asked Mantoani about the project a year ago this week, and it’s great to see that he didn’t run out of the gigantic, expensive Polaroid film he uses.

I could edit for hours without any true sense of time or weather. It felt a lot like living in the analog darkroom I used as a student.

The White House Flickr photostream makes President Obama look like James Bond.

The past year my dad, J Parson, pushed his music career ever higher with the release of his fifth CD.

My January saw partiers, beachgoers and teenagers. All in all, it wasn’t a bad start to 2011.

Recent months have seen a ramping up of my writing activities, something I’m happy to see joining my photos in various outlets, or even standing on its own.

An interesting thing happened after driving back into the United States from Vancouver, British Columbia in July. Something that would have been a nightmare had I been on assignment.

I used the opportunity to familiarize myself with Pittsburg, a town of roughly 20,000 people.