Photography and All of That

Pawn Shop Entrepreneur for Entrepreneur Magazine

This is Robbie Whitten, owner of a number of pawn shops across the Southeast. He might tell you otherwise, but he’s a total collector, and he has some super cool things for sale at his stores. He was generous with his time and even drove to another one of his stores to get a 1920s tommy gun he wanted to show us.

That’s Robbie with a Dali, a baseball, and a 1918 Gibson 2V guitar. All photographed on location in Phenix City, Alabama. This ran in the April 2013 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine.

Two Views of the Hunter Museum of Art in Winter

Chatt.

Monocle story on Chattanooga ran in March. Text by the only Alastair Gee I’ve ever heard of. It’s a great city and definitely worth a visit.

The Tennessee Aquarium and the riverfront.

An assembly line the Volkswagen plant.

Frank, CEO of the Volkswagen plant.

Mayor Ron Littlefield.

Billy Woodall and Rodney Simmons of Revival.

Overlook at Rock City.

Rick Wood of the Trust for Public Land.

Otters at the aquarium!

And a snapping turtle.

& Stone Fort.

Recent from New Orleans

Recently traveled to New Orleans for work. Made time to eat at Café Du Monde and walk down Decatur a little bit. Check out that dead fly inside the Holga!

Vino, Johnny’s, Cafe DuPont, Bettola

Recently shot a story for Birmingham Magazine about the meals restaurants hold for their cooks and wait staff. It gives up-and-coming cooks a chance to make a meal for their co-workers (and prove themselves a bit, I think). It also is a way to clean out refrigerators without throwing away good food. And as you can see, it provides a bit of fellowship in an otherwise extremely busy workplace.

The story was written by Christiana Roussel.