SOSA 2010 Social Event @ Gilda’s Club

March 06, 2010 – After a grueling day showing their family and friends what laboratory life is all about (POSA 2010/Parents Day), the SOSA sisters reconvened for a pizza dinner and social event at Gilda’s Club Chicago. For those who don’t know, named after Gilda Radner, Gilda’s Club is an excellent not-for-profit support site that provides a warm and welcoming meeting place where men, women and children diagnosed with cancer, and their loved ones, join with others to build social, emotional and informational support as an essential supplement to medical care. At this event, the SOSA sisters enjoyed a nice pizza dinner, heard from a peer who’s life has been touched by cancer (twice over, with both parents being diagnosed) as well as took part in a bracelet-making project that many guests go complete as an art therapy project. Here are a couple of my favorite shots from this very humbling and touching evening.

SOSA 2010: Doctor for a Day

February 20, 2010 – This is the second installment relating to the Oncofertility Saturday Academy. The pictures below document the module where the Senior OSA sisters were given the opportunity to be a doctor for a day. Learning everything from taking pulse and blood pressure readings to administering pelvic exams and pap smears, this put the importance of Women’s health into perspective.

Weekend in Montreal

February 27, 2010 – It’s always great traveling back to the homeland, but this past weekend was my chance to show two close friends (from Chicago) the city that I know best~ Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There was plenty of food and drink to be had, yet we made it back alive; here are a couple of pictures to prove it!

Brandi Does Pinup

February 7, 2010 – What can I say? I’m not one who normally shooting pinup, but was recently approached by Brandi to give it a try. Here is the best pic of the bunch; not sure if it was in my comfort zone, but at least I tried~

Tamara

February 7, 2010 – Tamara teamed up with myself and Siri Helgeson, a killer Chicago-based makeup artist to create images like those below! If you ever get the chance to work with either Tamara or Siri, don’t miss out!!!

Featuring Photography by Yeti

February 18, 2010 – This evening, Yeti exhibited some of his work at a local art exposition. Congrats!

With my versatile Canon G11 in hand, I grabbed a great portrait (if I do say so myself) of him posing by some of his work!

Ashley

February 7, 2010 – Here are a couple of headshots from a recent session with Ashley, an aspiring actor (makeup by Rachael Skala).

Oncofertility Saturday Academy 2010

Feb 13, 2010 – Oncofertility Saturday Academy (OSA) is a science program designed to engage a diverse population of high school girls from Chicago to explore the basic science, clinical applications, and careers options in reproductive science, cancer biology, and oncofertility. Here are several shots that sum up the first weekend of this great program!

Jess v2.0

February 6, 2010 – It’s always a pleasure working with Jess! Fresh from her modeling competition victory (the details escape me, but she was basically voted the new face for a Chicago-based promo company), we scheduled another shoot to capture some of the looks that we didn’t snap the first time around. Let me know what you think!

Neil

February 6, 2010 – Truly eclectic (to say the least), working with Neil was quite the experience. It’s not often that I’m approached by a model with such a clear vision, a very interesting free posing technique and a McDonald’s-eating entourage (technical director/DJ and wardrobe fashionista, to be exact). I’ve posted some of the ‘textbook’ portraits that I snagged and will leave the eerie and strange for his portfolio. All in all a great shoot nonetheless!