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One of the most common questions I get when a company books a headshot day: should we bring in a...

Right now there are major wildfires burning across France, Spain, and Italy. I have spent more than a decade photographing...
Yesterday I shot the Little Fire in Pleasanton, California, on assignment for Agence France-Presse. It was my first fire of...
The LA Times sent me to photograph Christin Evans, who owns The Booksmith on Haight Street in San Francisco, for...
News and editorial images from my archive, all available to license. The short answer A single editorial image starts around...
“If they start shooting, stay right here, behind the engine block.” That was the first thing my FBI liaison told...
I’ve chased two total solar eclipses. Weiser, Idaho in 2017. Bloomington, Indiana in 2024. Both times I was on a...
There is a total solar eclipse crossing Europe on August 12, 2026. I am not chasing this one, but I...
They put us on a bus and drove us into the desert I have shot for AFP and Getty for...
When companies reach out about event coverage, one of the first questions is a budget question: how many photographers do...
I shoot corporate headshots for teams across San Francisco and the Bay Area, and the question I get more than...
The Los Angeles Times hired me to make a portrait of Amit Jain, the CEO and co-founder of Luma AI,...
Josh Edelson on photographing U.S. Trade Rep Jamieson Greer's AFP tour of Skydio's Hayward drone factory, where America's military drones...
A Bay Area commencement photographer's look at Stanford's DLCL department graduation — the regalia, the hooding tradition, and the human...
A San Francisco aerial photographer's behind-the-scenes look at flying a drone over Ocean Beach to shoot a 1,000-person human banner...
★ Front-page news: This photograph ran on the front page of The Wall Street Journal (June 9, 2026), the lead...
Behind the scenes photographing Sofar Ocean Technologies in San Francisco — a business profile of the ocean intelligence company, its...
The New York Post hired Bay Area photographer Josh Edelson to make editorial portraits of California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton....
Behind the scenes photographing three AWS engineers inside an active Cupertino data center for WIRED and Amazon — the lighting,...
Commencement is the single most-photographed day of a university’s year. Press will run a picture. Families will share dozens. Marketing...

Most corporate conferences are photographed by someone who shoots weddings on weekends. Sometimes that works. Often it doesn’t. Here’s what...

The single biggest variable in how your event photography turns out is the brief. Not the photographer, most working professionals...

You’ve booked a corporate headshot session and you want to look like your best version of yourself when you sit...

AI headshot tools, Aragon, HeadshotPro, Try It On AI, and a dozen others, flooded the market in 2024 and 2025...
Over the past few days I’ve been photographing aerial coverage of Google I/O from a fixed-wing aircraft, flying out of...
In early 2026, I traveled to Seattle to photograph Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman at Amazon’s campus in South...
No two days are the same as a Bay Area event photographer. One day I’m covering wildfires or photographing tech...
University commencement ceremonies are among the most demanding assignments in professional event photography, and photographing the UC Law San Francisco...
For the past two days, I was on assignment in downtown Oakland covering the highly watched legal battle involving Elon...

Some photography assignments give you time to experiment. Others give you almost no time at all. A few years ago,...