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Long-form work
PROJECTS

Not a session. A story told over months or years — built from a large body of work, shot across many days, seasons, and miles.

What a project is
ONE FRAME IS A MOMENT. A PROJECT IS A STORY.

A single shoot captures an afternoon. A project accumulates. It's the difference between a photo of a runner and the documented arc of a training block.

Working directly with an athlete through a season, following a family across years, or returning to one location again and again to capture how it changes through time.

The result isn't a gallery of nice images. It's a narrative — sequenced, edited, and built to mean more every year it exists.

Athlete portrait
01
THE ATHLETE, DOCUMENTED

A season-long collaboration with one athlete — training blocks, race days, recovery, and the quiet work nobody sees. Early alarms, tempo runs in the rain, the taper, the start corral, the finish-line collapse. Months of shooting distilled into the story of what it actually took.

For runners chasing a first marathon or a PR, triathletes, and sponsored athletes who need a body of work — not a highlight reel.

Typical span — 3 to 9 months · race coverage included · sequenced story edit
02
A FAMILY, ACROSS YEARS

The same family, photographed on a rhythm — every season, every summer at the lake, every birthday that suddenly went from five candles to fifteen. Not portrait-studio sessions: documentary visits that catch the house, the routines, and the people exactly as they were.

The archive compounds. Year three is good. Year ten is priceless.

Typical span — recurring yearly or seasonal · cumulative archive · printed volume optional
Family at the Eiffel Tower
Lighthouse on the Scottish coast
03
A PLACE, THROUGH TIME

One location, visited again and again — the same bridge in four seasons, a coastline eroding, a neighborhood block changing storefront by storefront. Repeat visits reveal what a single trip never can: the slow story only time can tell.

For businesses documenting a build-out, towns recording change, or personal landscapes that deserve a long look.

Typical span — 4+ visits over a year+ · consistent framing · exhibition-grade prints
The process
HOW A PROJECT RUNS
01
DEFINE THE ARC
A conversation: what's the story, how long should it run, what does "finished" look like? Every project gets a written plan — cadence, locations, milestones.
02
SHOOT THE LONG GAME
Sessions on the project's rhythm, not a studio calendar. You get selects after every shoot, and the archive grows in the background — organized and backed up.
03
DELIVER THE STORY
The final edit is sequenced like a narrative, not sorted by date. Delivered digitally, and — for the projects that earn it — as a printed volume or exhibition set.
GOT A STORY
THAT NEEDS A YEAR?
Project slots are limited — long-form work takes calendar space. Tell me the story you're chasing, and we'll figure out the arc together.
Propose a Project
jjmackie
Sports & lifestyle photography · Louisville, KY
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