A Local Paradise from David Zentz on Vimeo. I had a great time over the weekend as one of 50 photojournalists participating in the inaugural VJ Multimedia Workshop at the Brooks Institute in Ventura. I was in a group focusing on local businesses and their … Continue readingVJ Multimedia Workshop
This morning I got up at 2:30, a time which is much closer to that at which I usually go to sleep, to shoot the arrival of the American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee at the Burbank Airport. I covered this story a couple … Continue readingHappy ending – Laura Ling and Euna Lee return from North Korea
I spent a beautiful Saturday morning at Sunset Beach Pacific Palisades shooting a bunch of costume-clad surfers who were there for the 7th annual Doo Dah Surf Day, a fundraiser that benefits the West LA/Malibu chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, which aims to protect the … Continue readingZip a dee Doo Dah
Here are a few from the 25th anniversary of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games held last week at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. In attendance were Olympic legends Greg Louganis, Mary Lou Retton and numerous others I was less familiar with. I was hired … Continue readingSilver anniversary
On Thursday I did some work as an event photographer at the opening of an art exhibit by Venice artist Jay Mark Johnson at the Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills. He’s doing some very cool digital photography using a jerry-rigged slit camera, which has been … Continue readingArt opening
This was almost as painful to watch as it must have been for the kid. While I was at the Sea of Ink tattoo shop the other day photographing Tyga, the owner’s young son happened to be working on pulling out a loose tooth by … Continue readingGrowing pains