In New Jersey, Barbara Buono Is the Last Democrat Standing

I photographed New Jersey State Sen. Barbara Buono, who is running against current Gov. Chris Christie to be the state's next governor, for The Daily Beast reporter David Freedlander's report on Buono at her home in Central New Jersey. Buono is the first woman State Senate majority leader in the Garden State.

Julio Acevedo, Suspect In Brooklyn Hit And Run Arrested

Julio Acevedo leaves the 78th Precinct after being booked by the New York City Police Department on March 7, 2013 in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, New York. Acevedo was arrested in connection with a car crash that killed a husband and pregnant wife on their way to a hospital, the baby died the next day after being delivered via C-section.

Acevedo, seen removing hat, is booked by the New York City Police Department before leaving the 78th Precinct.

Wood Worker of Northern Georgia

Dr. J in the woods of North Georgia. Blairsville, Georgia. Thanksgiving 2012.

Dallas's Connection to the United Nations

Peter Stewart reacts to comments while speaking to a well-wisher after Stewart, founder of the Thanks-Giving Square Foundation, was awarded the inaugural "Spirit of the United Nations" award for youth outreach during "The Spirit of the UN" award ceremony at the Church Center of the United Nations in New York, New York on October 22, 2012. Peter Stewart was recognized by the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns during a week at the United Nations in the name of the NGO. (Andy Jacobsohn for The Dallas Morning News)

Rancho Relaxo

Courtney taking in the Rancho Relaxo. Blairsville, Georgia. July Fourth weekend 2012.

Gazes of Unemployment

The unemployed or those unhappy with their current job status queued up to almost 200 job seekers in either direction as they waited to enter a 3-hour job fair. A Renaissance hotel in Iselin, New Jersey, could be the launching point to a new career for one of those waiting to enter the banquet hall. Scattered throughout the corridor was a miscellany of employers from New Jersey Transit and Prudential to financial institutions and technological and vocationally schools. Schools like the Stenotech Career Institute that boasts a 0% unemployment rate in the field of stenography - but before the students make the potential 6-figure salary they have to spend cash they don't have on a 3-year education. The recruitment associate from the school wasn't hesitate to say that she will likely not have a new student come out of this job fair, or fairs like it. The would-be students need income now.

For some it is hard to look when the United States has 8.1% unemployment rate, down from 8.3% the month before in part due to people retiring from a career of looking for their lost jobs back. But at these jobs fairs, looks, stares, and gazes defines the faces of seekers. Eyes are glued to job listings, looking ahead in the lines and stares that size up other job seekers.

At the same time is is irksome to stare back to document the pain of discontent and the waning patience of the displeased workforce. 

Dawn Bark

Chelsea Piers, New York City. August 2012.

Review of Burger King's Bacon Sundae for The Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/16/a-bacon-sundae-may-sound-like-a-dream-combo-until-you-try-to-eat-one.html

When all the hype was circling around Burger King's Bacon Sundae I sat down a wrote a piece on my experience with the 'treat' for The Daily Beast.

Memorial Dinosaur

Lawn extinction. Long Island, New York. Memorial Day weekend 2012.

Looking Back at the New Hampshire Republican Primary

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusett, greets the crowd after speaking to an over capacity-audience during a champaign rally hosted by Romney and Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota, at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)


A day before the New Hampshire Primary Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, speaks to a crowd of business leaders and owners during the Nashua Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Series in Nashua, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

A day before the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, with his wife, Callista Gingrich, greets employees of PSNH after making remarks at a town hall meeting in the PSNH offices in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks to the press during activity in the Spin Room following the ABC News Republican Debate on the campus of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

A day before the New Hampshire Primary, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, speaks to a crowd of business leaders and owners during the Nashua Chamber Of Commerce Breakfast Series in Nashua, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Press and supporters of Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah, gather outside of a private home before Huntsman was expected to met with supporters during a house party in a Bedford, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah, with his wife, Mary Kaye Huntsman, speaks with the press before meeting with supporters at a house party in a Bedford, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

A day before the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, with his wife, Callista Gingrich, speaks to employees of PSNH during a town hall meeting in the PSNH offices in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, signs a picture of himself for an employee of PSNH after Gingrich spoke to the employees of PSNH during a town hall meeting in the PSNH offices in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

The ballroom of the Radisson Inn where Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, was set to speak to a crowd of business leaders and owners during the Nashua Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Series in Nashua, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)

Supporters, who choose to remain unidentified, of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney rally on the campus of Saint Anselm College before the start of the ABC News Republican Debate on the campus of Saint Anselm in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Andy Jacobsohn/MCT)