April just flew by this year. It has been quite a busy time, I’ve been pounding the pavement taking my portfolio around and getting great responses. Now it is starting to pay off. I landed a full time staff photographer position at Weaver, a multi-media corporation that concentrates on travel and tourism. Very exciting! I’ll be covering the East Coast, mainly New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago. The position will start the middle of this month so I have time to complete a freelance job for Cigar Aficionado Magazine, nine portraits of their editors at various locations around the city.

My graduation from Parsons is May 19th, a great reason to celebrate! I get to walk down the aisle at Madison Square Garden. That day happens to be Hannah’s third birthday, Jake just turned one, February 10th, and Gabriel will be one July 3rd.

Charles, my brother, is flying to Germany this Thursday, to give a lecture, “Terrorism Definitions: Effect on Policy”, at the Institute for Criminological Research Department of Social Sciences, University of Hamburg. He is in the Doctoral program at John Jay College of Criminal Law.

This Thursday Andrew and I will be starting a project together, a portrait series and article covering dancers from Riviera. Kellie at Retna told me that she might be able to shop the article around to magazines and possibly syndicate the images.

The club's interior has a modern design and interesting décor, perfect for a shoot. We met the manager and a few of the girls last week, my first time in a Gentleman’s club. It was a strange experience, we sat at the bar where the girls dance, topless only because they serve alcohol. After they do their set, the girls move around the bar and ask for tips. The music was pumping so loud I could barley hear myself think let alone a person speaking to me. As one of the girls made her rounds she stopped in front of Andrew and I, massaging her breasts, I thought she said ‘tits’, when she said ‘tips’, so I said ‘no thanks’. I felt a little bad after Andrew told me she wanted a tip- oops. There is a VIP room called the “red room” where I would love to shoot in. The red print couches are low to the ground attached to the red walls in a circular layout with a full view of the bar and exterior room through a two way mirror.