Online article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/travel/budget-travel-homer-alaska.html
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IN PRINT: Seward Sea Life Center for Accelerate America Magazine
Cover & feature shoot at the Seward Sea Life Center. Full publication here: http://acceleratena.com
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IN PRINT: Anchorage Travel for The New York Times
At Alaska Natural Organics in Anchorage, greens are raised hydroponically — in water, without soil or pesticides, under blue-and-red LED lights.
IN PRINT: Alaska Natural Organics for The New York Times
Stoked to be able to shoot for interesting stories like this one: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/us/closing-the-farm-to-table-gap-in-alaska.html?ref=topics
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Anchorage resident Josef Princiotta photographed after a townhall meeting which included a presentation by Revenue Commissioner Randall Hoffbeck about Governor Bill Walker's proposed budget plan at Creekside Park Elementary School. December 16, 2015.
OUTTAKES: Alaska's Fiscal Challenges for the New York Times
Sometimes, your best photographs don't fit the story that you're shooting for. The other day on assignment for the NYT, I was shooting a few folks that were to be potentially quoted for an article. The location was not exactly the stuff of a photographers dreams: an elementary school gym with overhead fluorescent light.
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IN PRINT: Alaska's Fiscal Challenges for The New York Times
Very pleased to be shooting again for the New York Times and teamed up with staff writer Kirk Johnson. Check out the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/us/as-oil-money-melts-alaska-mulls-first-income-tax-in-35-years.html?_r=0
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SELF-ASSIGNED: Conceptual Brains
I am not a conceptual or product photographer, per se. Even if I felt it was my true calling, Anchorage, Alaska just doesn't have the market for it. But I do like and respect that type of work and every once in a while if I get a wild hair or have an excuse, I'll shoot something in that genre just for fun.
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Joshua Corbett Photography Promo Featured on A Photo Editor Instagram
Those who know me know that there are few things I enjoy more than geeking out about photography. A solid photo-based conversation is the quickest way to get me to look at the clock and wonder where the last couple hours went. The blog that inevitably comes up most often in a conversation like that is none other that of Rob Haggart, APhotoEditor.com.
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Alaska Governor Bill Walker for the New York Times
IN PRINT: Governor Bill Walker for the New York Times
In Alaska, Obama Will Be in Middle of Oil and Climate Change Battle
I had the distinct pleasure of photographing another story for the New York Times last week, and finally meeting long-time NYT journalist Kirk Johnson, who wrote this article and others that I've shot for in the past. Hearing our governor discuss what he planned and hoped to communication to the Commander in Chief was certainly interesting. Other photographs that accompanied the story, which ran on page A11, Saturday, August 29 included Ryan Joe, a conservation activist, and a cityscape showing Cook Inlet and downtown. Full article HERE.
Ryan Joe, 26, a Yupik college student from Anchorage, is involved in planning a rally during President Obama's Alaska visit.
Downtown Anchorage, viewed across a portion of Cook Inlet.
Worth Watching: Advice from Photo Rep Maren Levinson
From John Keatley, via Aphotoeditor
I thought this was a good perspective, and worth posting - Marin Levinson succinctly summarizes valuable advice that I hear over and over from industry leaders about vision, success, and where the industry is going.
"It used to be that somebody who could light, and show up, and make a portrait had value. That person is of no value anymore. They have to have something to say."
"You have to think about how you want people to refer to you, in one sentence...It's your job...to complete that sentence."
"Everything is heading toward motion."
When making a photograph, do you ask permission?
At a photo workshop last weekend, a relative newcomer to photography posed this question to me, and it got me thinking. I didn't have a hard and fast answer. "Sometimes" was the first response that came to mind. Additionally, I couldn't seem to come up with a set of rules for immediately determining whether the answer would be yes or no. It is in some respects...
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IN PRINT: Togiak, Alaska for NEWSWEEK
When the call came from Newsweek for an assignment in rural Alaska, I was floored. I remember sitting on my host-family's porch in the Philippines as a Peace Corps Volunteer long ago devouring my weekly Newsweek. The publication was a large part of feeling connected to the world...
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Dip net fishing on the Copper River
Dip net fishing is something of a rite of passage in Alaska. Explaining it to out-of-staters is entertaining. Conversations often go like this:
"Dip netting? What's that?" / "Oh, it's a type of fishing where you've got a net on the end of a long pole and you pull fish out of a river with it." / "Wait, so you don't have a fishing pole with a hook or lure?" / "Nope, just a net."
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Fly-in fishing in Skwentna
There are few people on the planet that I've known longer than my friend Scott. We went to kindergarten together, and have somehow been friends ever since. He and his dad took me fishing to Skwentna when I was maybe twelve. It was where I caught my first jack king salmon. On a beautiful June afternoon, we went back, and while we were unsuccessful fishing this time, it was great to be out on the water with one of my oldest amigos.
Worth watching: Adam Marelli on Composition, Photography, and Classical Art
For anyone interested in photography, this is a little long, but a great intro to some essential principles of composition by photographer Adam Marelli. I've been calling myself a professional for a while now, and still found it an interesting summation.
Afghanistan work featured in Maxim Online →
Maxim magazine online did a nice little write-up on me and the body of photography that came from my year in Afghanistan. My photographs from Afghanistan hadn't been published yet outside of my own website, and it's been a while since they were made (2011), so it's very nice to see them out in the world where more people might run across them. The article is short, but I have to say, they did a pretty good job of summing up the Human Terrain System as well.
Read the full article here: https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/article/my-tour-joshua-corbett-paktika-afghanistan
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The majority of the less than 300 residents of Whittier, Alaska live in one building, the Begich Tower.
Whittier Portraits for Affinityfilms
March 17, 2015 - Whittier, Alaska is only 60 miles from Anchorage, but feels a world away. The tiny port town is accessible by car only through a single lane, 2.5 mile tunnel that runs below the Chugach mountains. Tunnel traffic alternates directions every 30 minutes. The tiny community has been described as a town under one roof due to the majority of people living in one building, the Begich tower, which is reportedly in need of major repairs.
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The dog team of Byron Bearss ran through warm, slushy conditions at the start of the 2015 Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska. March 7, 2015
Iditarod Ceremonial Start For DPA/Deutche Presse-Agenteur
March 10, 2015 - Saturday marked the Ceremonial Start of the 2015 Iditarod Sled Dog Race in Alaska (The official start was yesterday in Fairbanks). I can't remember the last time I watched the event, which fills downtown Anchorage with the excited yips and howls of hundreds of dogs that are SO excited to get on the trail. Not to mention tons of mushers and spectators as well. It's quite a production, and there's a great community vibe to the event. This year was particularly odd because it has been such a bizarrely snow-less winter. Crews had to bring in truckloads of
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Fur Rondy Fur Auction
On Sunday, I stopped by an Alaskan Fur Rondy tradition: the Horn and Hide Auction. Volunteer auctioneers from the Alaska Trappers' Association, in cooperation with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game auctioned off furs and horns confiscated from illegal hunting and collected from road killed animals.
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Potter's Marsh Flyers
Feb 26, 2015 - On my way home from Girdwood, I saw these guys taking off (what looked) like directly over the road. The sun was already setting, so I decided to wait for them to return, figuring that they wouldn't be flying much past sunset. It turned out I was right and I was able to make a few frames as they came in for a landing after a chilly, clear flight over the hillside above Anchorage.
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