Revere officials work the scene of an accident at the 1200 block of North Shore that downed 4 utility poles Wednesday morning, November 17, 2010. No serious injuries were reported as a 2 trucks and 2 cars were involved. See my photos below, snapped while on assignment for the Boston Herald.
The happy trio was spotted along the Charles yesterday. Here are my photos below, and here is the Boston Herald’s Inside Track story.
The Boston fire department saved this building after a stubborn 2-alarm fire broke out on the 3rd floor Saturday. The middle photo shows district chief Frank Jones with insulation on top of his head after the 3rd floor ceiling at 251 Saratoga St. was finally cracked open. The fire caused $250,000.00 damage. Please see my photos below. Shot on assignment for the Boston Herald.
I was the pool photographer today at the arraignment of Kimani Washington, who was held on a high bail in connection with cocaine trafficking and firearms charges that could connect him further to the Mattapan quadruple murders. My photos were distributed to all who wanted them, as part of the pool agreement for cameras in the courtroom. Boston Herald reporter Laura Crimaldi wrote the story here.
The family of Levaughn Washum-Garrison, led by his mother Patricia Wasum-Bennett (with sunglasses) is seen at the arraignment of Kimani Washington in Dorchester Court Wednesday morning. Washington was in court in connection with the quadruple homicide in Mattapan late last month.
In 1998 I was sent with Boston Herald columnist Peter Gelzinis for the canonization of Edith Stein, with connections to a young Brockton girl. The girl, Benedicta McCarthy, recovered from a near death tylenol overdose when she was 2 years old. Her family organized prayer chains to pray specifically to McCarthy’s namesake, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross also known as Edith Stein. Stein, according to Wikipedia, was a jew who died in 1942 in the Auschwitz death camp. In 1922 she had converted to catholicism and was baptized. Read more here in a 2010 ABC news interview. The canonization trip happened on the weekend of October 11th and 12th. Here are my photos below.
A visiting Father William Schmidt of Stoneham's St.Patrick's looks in awe at St. Peter's Basilica.
Here, Benedicta McCarthy receives communion from the Pope.
(09/23/10-Revere,MA) John Bottari hugs his cat “Piddles” after Revere fire chief Gene Doherty handed the cat to him during a 3-alarm fire Thursday afternoon. The fire started at 16 Dana St and spread to a dwelling on North Shore Rd. The cat survived with minor dehydration and some minor burns to the paws. Please my Herald photo gallery here and Herald story here.
September 21, 2009, a day that most surely will be etched in my mind forever. I arrived at Marshfield Airport at 6am and waited and hoped, on a tip, that Gisele would be flying a helicopter with flight instructor Stuart Matsumoto. All of a sudden, there she was and away she went. Gisele and Stuart stayed up for almost 2 hours before gliding the craft to a perfect landing. Afterwards, enroute back to Boston, I got another tip that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were jogging around the Charles River. After a few minutes I spotted them. Tom was very nice saying to me, after I identified myself as a Boston Herald photographer, that he enjoyed Boston very much, “a great city.”
I believe the photos below show the all important pizza box evidence in this vicious and sad case. After covering this horrific crime as it unfolded as a news photographer for the Boston Herald, I was curious to read in the papers about the prosecution’s case, etc. I read that a bloody pizza box was found under a car next to the victim’s green Subaru that had been found at the rear of a church at 1450 River Street. I was familiar with this because I was there minutes after Boston police discovered the car due to an observant citizen. I went back to my computer and studied some of my photos. Under the red car at the right of the green Subaru appears to be a cardboard box. I still had some work to do in confirming this as the prosecution did not state which car, immediately next to the victim’s car, the evidence was found under. According to Jake Wark, the spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, a pizza box was recovered from beneath the vehicle at the passenger’s side of Mr. Nova’s car”
August 31 started off quietly as I went about my 6:30am to 2:30pm shift at the Boston Herald. A police scanner call came in late in the morning that would put me on alert. The Everett police dispatcher warned city police units of a bank robbery on Broadway. I headed that way because the a police officer stated that he had spotted the suspect. A foot chase ensued and the man was shot on Tufts Avenue after making a move toward police as he held a knife. Story here.
Everett police officers tend to a man that was just shot by an Everett police officer.
I awoke at 5am and drove to Boston Municipal Court on the morning of April 21, 2009. I wanted to photograph Philip Markoff, the man dubbed the “craigslist killer.” This man was apprehended just 12 hours earlier, give or take an hour. My usual shift as a staff photographer at the Boston Herald begins at 6:30am, but on this day I wanted to be first in line so I could secure the coveted “pool photographer” position for this sensational case. The pool photographer is traditionally the first media person who arrives at court, since the court can’t hold more than one still camera and one video (TV) camera. My photographs of Markoff’s arraignment were carried that day in newspapers, websites and magazines, and at least one book cover, around the world. Now they are being viewed again after his jailhouse suicide. Here are two of my photos from that, and 3 instances of how the photos have been used this time around.
