Find Me!

Find Me! is a children’s book that I helped create for Chronicle Books. This book’s unique goal was to challenge young readers to find certain hidden items in each busy double-page spread. Each book pressing was unique for the reader, using their photos and custom text elements on each page.

I created a total of 12 photo-illustrations for this book. These included doing studio photography, sourcing props, building sets and designing graphic elements. I also did all retouching, while working closely with the Creative Director to ensure the publisher’s goals were met and that each layout met the printing parameters.

Stuck Up: 100 Objects Ingested and Inserted in Places They Shouldn’t Be.

Stuck Up is a book for which I created fictional x-rays for, published by St Martin’s Griffin Press. The publication includes over 100 original photo-composites of actual x-rays, combined with photos of various household objects. The final result gives the illusion that they were produced during late-night emergency room visits when these objects being irretrievable.

These final x-rays accompany written vignettes that humorously speculate how these objects may have ended up “stuck up” where they did.

Hella Damn Squirrels

Hella Damn Squirrels is a photo project that matches over 100 of my original photos of Oakland’s wild fox squirrels with witty and unique captions that I also created. The project served as an exercise in early social media creation.

This project started originally as a Facebook Page and grew into social media accounts on Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter and its own web site. The online collection expanded into live exhibits at the Oakland Museum of California, two Oakland library branch exhibits, local festivals and cafes, and an article in local publication Oakland North.