Magazine work, commissioned stills, the slower assignments.

Three days in a converted convent outside Florence. Stylist Luna Vincenti, model Eun-ji Park, single wardrobe assistant. The shoot ran like a slower, weirder wedding day. The art director sent a single round of feedback: "less fashion, more rooms."

A ten-day commission in northeastern Spain, photographing five small hotels and the kitchens that run them. Slept in each one a single night. Most of the published photographs were made before breakfast or after the staff had gone to bed.

A small portrait series of writers and choreographers in their own working spaces, shot over four mornings in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The brief was "early light, no makeup, no styling." We did not stray.

A three-day visit to a composer's home in upstate New York to accompany a long-form profile. Black and white throughout, mostly available light, mostly the kitchen and the studio. The profile won a National Magazine Award nomination.