Commissioned by The Washington Post
From the Post: \"Levin graduated in baking and pastry arts at the Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park a mere three years ago, in the golden age of modernist cuisine and deconstructed desserts. A limited practitioner of the former and reasoned defender of the latter, he says efforts can fall short unless each plated component can stand on its own merits, for texture, aroma and flavor. There can be no weak link. “I’m trying to play on geometry and beauty,” he says. “But if my dessert doesn’t taste delicious, it’s a failure.”\"
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Commissioned by The Wall Street Journal
From the Journal: \"Baltimore’s Mount Vernon historic district, where F. Scott Fitzgerald lived and wrote, slipped into slumber decades ago but it’s waking up again. Here, the restaurants, bars, hotels and museums where you can revel in the revival.\"
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I’ve been riding bikes since (almost) the time I could balance. In the years before a car would become my ticket to teenage freedom, my bike carried me out in to the world. Granted, the next block over isn’t quite the same as the next state, but it was always full of new people and unexplored corners. Much like my cameras provide a path out of my introversion today, the bikes of my childhood became the means of interacting with the people and places around me.
From exploring my childhood neighborhoods to racing and working as a shop mechanic in college, bikes have always occupied a space in my life. I’m no longer concerned with race times or placing (who am I kidding, I never was) and mountain biking has now become my meditative practice. So when a college friend asked if I’d join him for a 50-mile badlands bike race on the Maah Daah Hey trail, it felt like an opportunity both to push myself and to take a sort of pilgrimage. The week I’d spend driving to and from North Dakota (that’s my truck at our campsite the night before the race) was only a piece of that journey. I felt pulled by the distant hills and solitude, and set about the bike maintenance and training preparations.
The phrase “maah daah hey,” from the Mandan Indian language, means “grandfather” or “long lasting” and the trail icon of a turtle comes from the Lakota Indian’s symbol of long life and patience. The 144 miles of continuous single-track trail winds through the grasslands and badlands of western North Dakota, a place that Theodore Roosevelt described as “a land of vast silent spaces, a place of grim beauty.” When the pack of racers split up, or in my case left me in their dust, it felt like being the only person in the world. Some of my favorite moments on the trail were simply being alone in the wilderness, soaking up the subtle quiet, and feeling my heart fill up from taking it all in.
Commissioned by Vice News during the 2016 presidential campaign
From Vice: \"Laurens, South Carolina, was named after the 18th century slave trader Henry Laurens, a Revolutionary War politician who was a partner in one of the largest slave-trading houses in North America.... During Reconstruction, the county of Laurens, like most of the Upcountry, was a locus of Klan activity aimed at suppressing the black Republican vote, and the town continued to be a hotbed of white nationalism for the next couple of centuries.... There's a belief here that any racial prejudice tamer than snarling dogs, fire hoses, and \"Whites Only\" signs isn't really racism, but something ingrained in a lost culture, something not malicious or active, but embedded, covert, and therefore forgivable. A belief that if a history of subjugation is tangled with a sanitized, whimsical idea of a time and place, then we should excuse all the viciousness that came with it.\" Read the story
The Association of Lincoln Presenters, with members who portray Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln and other historical figures, gathered in Natchez, Mississippi for their annual convention in April 2014. The members range from professional impersonators to hobbyists with a deep interest in history. As the visual shock of a room full of Abe Lincolns wears off, unique quirks become visible that distinguish each member’s interpretation of their character. A sense of duty to the legacy of President Lincoln pervades their activities, as well as joy in sharing time with other Lincoln-lovers.
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From the Journal: \"Forty-five years ago, a portion of 14th Street that runs through Northwest Washington, D.C., was the epicenter of riots that followed the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.... Twenty years after that, the wide avenue was still marred by boarded-up commercial buildings. Today, new condos start at $500,000. On side streets, herb gardens sprout in front of million-dollar townhouses. An upscale furniture store fills a former Cadillac dealership. And there has been an explosion of restaurants. Along one four-block stretch, seven have debuted this year.\"
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Commissioned by The Washington Post Magazine
From the Post: \"Rhubarb: candy-pink harbinger of spring, perpetual partner of strawberry in pies.... The Washington Post invited three [sous-chefs] — Jonathan Heeter of Trummer’s on Main in Clifton, Va., Krystal Cripe of the Red Hen in Bloomingdale and Faiz Ally of Del Campo downtown — to a competition to create the best rhubarb dish for spring. The catch? It had to be savory.\"
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The media response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was overwhelming, and many hours were devoted to coverage of the spill and its impact. This body of work, and the accompanying motion piece \"Stigma Without the Sheen\", looks at the Gulf states three months after the spill, in July of 2010, during what is typically one of the busiest periods of tourism in the region. The misconception that oil had saturated the Gulf of Mexico and that all beaches along the Gulf were contaminated kept many tourists away from the Gulf coast states. Those tourists who did venture to the shore found the beaches nearly deserted, while local businesses faced a staggering blow to their bottom line.
San Diego Comic-Con is at once exhilarating and exhausting. Outsized personalities mingle with the shy coming out of their shell, all in a crowd of some 160,000 people that still manages to feel like family. As the gathering nears its 50th anniversary, this multi-year project rejoices in the weird and celebrates the welcoming community that keeps fans coming back.
In the weeks before the 2016 political party conventions, Politico Magazine gathered Republican and Democrat insiders for discussions with each group about the future of their respective parties.
From What's a Democrat Anymore?: \"[DNC] leadership—along with President Barack Obama—has been accused of letting the party languish at the state and local level, where Republicans are ascendant. Meanwhile, both the Sanders and Trump campaigns exposed severe weaknesses in the Democrats’ ability to appeal to white working-class voters, the same ones who in past elections were key supporters of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Where does the Democratic Party go from here, and what will it look like years from now? Can it win back the white working class? Should the party even try to—or is it better off embracing diversity in a country on its way to being majority-minority?\"
From Will Trump Bring the GOP Ruin or Renewal?: \"If one thing has become clear from Trump’s primary romp, it’s that the Republican Party as an institution is broken. So can it be fixed? Should it be? The inside-the-Beltway types who met at the Capitol Hill Club—a year to the day after Trump announced his candidacy—were a pretty despondent group; their major debate was not over whether Trump’s candidacy had damaged their party but by how much.\"
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From the Post: \"For perhaps the first time in modern conservative politics, National Review and many of its peers looked completely ineffectual. Today, a man who calls himself “really very conservative” occupies the Oval Office, but he pays these magazines no apparent heed. Meanwhile, beyond D.C., all the power on the right seems to have migrated to outlets like Fox News and Breitbart News as well as polemicists like Ann Coulter — at the expense of National Review and its bookish cousins. Such exile can feel like death to small political magazines, which even in the best of times frequently ask themselves if anyone cares what they have to say.... And yet, these struggling, money-losing, quarrelsome, small-circulation constructions of pixels and paper do, sometimes, manage to affect the course of history.\"
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