Late last year, I spent a day inside a Sunny Delight plant for a Wall Street Journal story about companies using federal business improvement money to grow their business without creating new jobs. One of my images was used for both the print edition (page B1 of the Jan. 17, 2012, Wall Street Journal) and online. You can read the article at WSJ.com: Man vs. Machine, a Jobless Recovery

You can see more images from the shoot in the Recent Work section of this website: Inside a Sunny Delight plant for the Wall Street Journal

Late last year, I spent a day in a Sunny Delight plant in Littleton, Massachusetts, for the Wall Street Journal. The company recently used federal money to update equipment in the plant, improving the efficiency of the beverage bottling process. In doing so, the company has been able to grow, but this growth hasn’t resulted in more jobs. I was pleasantly surprised with the access I was given to the plant for the few hours I was there, though unfortunately that day the plant was bottling a colorless product called Fruit20, rather than a more colorful Sunny Delight product. You can see how the pictures appeared in print and online in the Tearsheets section of this website: Tearsheet: Sunny Delight plant for the Wall Street Journal

The article is also available online at WSJ.com: Man vs. Machine, a Jobless Recovery

Screenshot of MIT.edu featuring portrait of Professor Jeffrey Grossman

A photo from a recent portrait shoot for MIT’s News Office was featured on the homepage of MIT.edu on January 26, 2012. You can read the story here: Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time

Screenshot of MIT.edu on 12 December 2011. Portrait of Antonio Torralba by M. Scott Brauer for MIT News

A picture from a recent assignment for MIT News was used as the homepage for MIT on Dec. 12, 2011. The image teases a story on Dr. Antonio Torralba’s work to develop image-interpreting artificial intelligence.

M. Scott Brauer on Tumblr

I’ve been posting photos quietly on tumblr for a little while, primarily images from my phone and archival images found while responding to photo requests, and I thought I should announce it formally. You can follow along here or peruse the archive.

I’ve been following the 2012 Republican presidential race in New Hampshire whenever I get a chance. This weekend, I went to Manchester, NH, to photograph Mitt Romney’s efforts to get out the primary vote with a rally for supporters and a short period of canvassing a neighborhood of likely Republican primary voters. It’s been eye-opening to watch this process up close (literally close! I’ve been close enough to touch any of the candidates I’ve photographed.) and to see how manufactured the process is for the media. Every event is carefully coordinated so that members of the national media are present. I’m not always successful at finding a unique perspective of the pageantry, but I enjoy trying. More pictures from the day are available in my archive: 2012 campaign – Mitt Romney in Manchester, New Hampshire – 3 December 2011.

From the series China Everbright

My series, China Everbright, will be shown again in Shanghai on Dec. 7, 2011, as part of Tim Franco‘s periodic Photographer Night at Dada Bar at 115号 Xing Fu Lu, Chang Ning Qu, Shanghai, China. Here’s the facebook invitation for the event. The work was previously shown at this location for the Beijing + Shanghai Jue Art Festival, and now it returns for a “Best of” night, curating the best presentations in the year-long photography series. Thanks to Tim for supporting photography of China!

I recently had the good fortune to meet Professor Stephen Soldz to photograph him for a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education about a controversial plan by the US Army and American Psychological Association for “resilience training” of soldiers using positive psychology. Soldz is critical of the new program, known as Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, which is designed to prevent the psychological toll of combat on American soldiers. Soldz has many criticisms of the program, including that there has not been a pilot study of it and that positive psychology is not the best approach to something inherently negative, such as the killing of another person. Soldz teaches research methodology at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. We spent a pleasant hour walking around the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis for a variety of portrait locations. The Chronicle story is behind a paywall, unfortunately, so it’s difficult to read.

I’m excited to announce that two of my images, from the series on China’s zoos Small Concrete Boxes, have been selected for inclusion in My Own Wilderness, an online exhibition and book created by Christopher Paquette of Photo/arts Magazine. You can see a high quality version of the exhibition/slideshow at Vimeo and a list of included photographers here. More than 150 photographers submitted over 700 images to the call for entries; 50 photographers made the cut. Thanks to Christopher and congratulations to the winners!