In 2016, I began working on a photography project featuring photos outside of Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in Manhattan—Donald Trump's primary residence before he was elected President that year. Since then, I've returned regularly to examine the peculiar dynamics of that area, focusing specifically on protestors, supporters, the police presence, and the reactions of passing tourists.
Here's a selection of images from that project, as well as a listing of the resulting photo essays on Medium.com.
My photo "Ocho Rios Boy" was named one of four winners in the Grow Juried Group Show, which appeared at Art House NYC on July 13th, 2017.
I enjoyed attending the Internet Freedom Festival in lovely Valencia, Spain again in March this year, where I also presented twice. I ran a workshop on Collaborative Sketching for Secure & Usable Apps and lead a guided discussion on the topic of Social Media & At-Risk Groups. I also enjoyed assisting with a UX clinic and helping attendees, who were working on various apps applicable to the privacy and security community.
In December, 2016, I had the extraordinary opportunity to travel to the Antarctic Peninsula for a 10-day trip. I photographed my experience extensively and also wrote about in my Journal from the White Continent.
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A masked protester demonstrates outside Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters, where Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump was meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus in Washington, U.S., May 12, 2016.
Back in August, I wrote a piece on Medium entitled "There Is No Illegal Immigrant Crisis." The Huffington Post asked to reprint this piece and since then I've continued with a series of articles on the subject, which have gathered thousands of views and shares on both platforms. I hope to continue the series with several related pieces.
Here are the first three from this series as they appear on the Huffington Post:
I was very excited to attend the Internet Freedom Festival this year in Valencia, Spain (March 1-6) and to volunteer as a lead for the Community & Communications track. I attended many great sessions on subjects such as the Iranian Cyber Army, Privacy Across Cultures and the gender gap at Wikimedia. Above I'm pictured with Gus Andrews, Simply Secure who helped lead a UX Jam with Christopher Wood, Grid Systems. We collaborated on develop the UX for the GridSync app. I also enjoyed giving a brief presentation about our work at Razorfish to a great group of UXers and Designers at Salón de Deseño, hosted by the good folks at Simply Secure.