Someone Whose Job is Reportedly Slightly Better Than Mine

I was inspired by the Wall Street Journal list of Best and Worst Jobs in 2010, which lists Photojournalist just below Firefighter (numbers 189 and 188, respectively), to post a recent portrait of a fire chief I shot for the CSMonitor. I borrowed a technique from Sean Stipp, a colleague of mine from Pittsburgh who uses his garage as a studio (the open garage door acts like a giant softbox).




Shirley Fire Chief Dennis Levesque had to lay off four of six full-time firefighters and cut staffing from 24/7 to weekdays only. Photo by Sarah Beth Glicksteen/The Christian Science Monitor