On 23 January 2011, The Westboro Baptist Church paid a visit to Salt Lake City in order to picket Jews, Episcopals, Mormons, the Sundance Film Festival & a high school. While photographing and filming the picket party at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Salt Lake, I had a moment to speak...
View the entire photo gallery and / or license images here. Ever since they made headlines in 1998 with their controversial picket of Matthew Shepard's funeral, I have followed the Westboro Baptist Church with near-morbid fascination. Originally infamous for their website godhatesfags.com, in the last decade, they have expanded their online presence...
I was recently commissioned to shoot some portraits for Tyler Measom, the co-director, along with Jennilyn Merten of the hot new documentary Sons of Perdition. Sons of Perdition follows three teenage boys after they escape from the powerful FLDS polygamist sect and must fend for themselves in mainstream America. We met...
I was lunching in downtown Salt Lake City last summer and happened across a large demonstration. Hundreds of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) were at the Matheson Courthouse to protest the sale of land they believed is holy. Many of them had...
Thousands of Salt Lake City citizens surrounded the City County Building on July 29, 2009 to protest the vote on Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage in California. Here is a selection of photos from the protest in front of the City County Building in downtown SLC...