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February 18, 2019 - Tootsie Holland (above) says that president Trump’s recent declaration of a national emergency is only part of the reaso...

January 02, 2019 - At the stroke of midnight on New Years at New Brookland Tavern, after shifting through different roles in Fleetwood Mac...

November 27, 2018 - Near midday on Sunday in Tijuana, a large group of Central American refugees and migrants peacefully marched to the sout...

November 26, 2018 - Yesterday, in Tijuana, more than a thousand of members of the Central American caravan marched to a bridge that leads to...

November 24, 2018 - For the Central American refugees and migrants who have traveled a near three thousand mile journey to Tijuana, Mexico,...

November 21, 2018 - I was sitting in the dirt near third base on Tuesday afternoon at Little Padres Park in Tijuana when Alfonso Mejia Casti...

November 09, 2018 - Yesterday’s firing of U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, and the appointment of Matt Whitaker as a...

November 06, 2018 - In the upstairs Pastor’s Study at Lula Drake on Sunday night, Queef headlined a live musical celebration of the new film...

October 17, 2018 - I added a Nikon 85mm f/1.4 D lens to my kit last year for portrait work. It’s the older version that was in production f...

October 16, 2018 - Standing next to the Matterhorn, my friend Cameron asks, “Sean, when will the fair be back?” And so begins, and ends mo...

October 09, 2018 - Before Colby Hensley came into this world, his father raced a 1974 Dodge Power Wagon through pits of mud in a tractor pu...

September 27, 2018 - On Sunday morning as I prepared my kayak for a photo mission into a neighborhood flooded by the Waccamaw River, just a f...

September 06, 2018 - Having worked at New Brookland Tavern for over a decade, Adam Cullum has been a consistent reminder of the amazing cogs...

September 04, 2018 - After the first few hundred yards of the annual Chapin Labor Day Parade, Rep. Joe Wilson found himself holding on to a.5...

August 12, 2018 - “I started putting some stands together with the north end zone seats and when I put in the walkway - you start to get a...

August 07, 2018 - Sean Rayford: If you participated in organized crime, what would your role and nickname be? Sean Thomson: Something bor...

July 20, 2018 - Sean: Do you talk to animals? Josh: Yes. It's not really a full on conversation. It's more or less derivations of my do...

July 08, 2018 - Like a dog wiping it’s ass across the carpet, the back end of a tandem kayak slowly took on water Saturday afternoon whe...

July 02, 2018 - “Shit happens mate,” explained Dan Cooper when asked about the last stretch of his journey yesterday on the rivers in Co...

July 01, 2018 - In unison with nationwide “Families Belong Together” marches and rallies, planned in over 600 cities, several hundred de...

June 08, 2018 - “We are here to grill steaks today,” explained local restaurateur Kristian Niemi last night at City Roots Farm, “The rea...

May 28, 2018 - Standing on a corner of N. Ocean Blvd. in Myrtle Beach on Friday afternoon of Black Bike Week I wondered where all the m...

May 25, 2018 - I've got Saturday and Sunday assignments photographing Memorial Day weekend in Myrtle Beach, SC - so I decided to get an...

April 22, 2018 - "Earlier today, we had kind of a breakdown just off the start line with the "Savage Lung." We learned that Kent Sutcliff...

March 02, 2018 - Getting an early start on St. Patrick's Day celebrations, Celtic punk rockers Flogging Molly kicked off their "Life is G...

February 28, 2018 - After morning meetings with state lawmakers concerning gun legislation for the upcoming session, representatives from Mo...

February 25, 2018 - Junior Astronomers at New Brookland Tavern in West Columbia, SC. 2/23/18 RELATED CONTENT Drunk Guy at the Festival &...

February 25, 2018 - As three elderly women waited the in the lobby of Carolina Ale House last night, the front door swung open and a boister...

February 20, 2018 - Some residents near Five Points say that drunk college students have urinated in their gardens, passed out naked on thei...

February 19, 2018 - Celebrating his retirement from the U.S Army, Confederate Fagg drummer, Packer, and bandmates Teabag Balzac, Spanky Swat...

February 18, 2018 - "Sean, can you do me a favor?" asked my friend Ryan, a former co-worker at New Brookland Tavern. "Sure," I responded. I...

February 11, 2018 - A show at the Elbow Room was my alibi on two occasions in 1998. The first instance occurred when my neighbors in Preston...

February 10, 2018 - Like Bourbon St. on steroids, revelers flocked to the Rosewood neighborhood this morning for the annual Mardi Gras parad...

February 04, 2018 - This morning in Cayce, SC, not too far from the state farmers market on Charleston Highway, an Amtrak passenger train cr...

January 31, 2018 - As the sun went down yesterday in Columbia, SC about 75 people gathered at the South Carolina Statehouse to rally in sup...

January 31, 2018 - Sean: Do you believe in aliens? Alex: No. I want to, but I just don't. Do you believe that they don't exist or just ha...

January 21, 2018 - MISGIVINGS OF A PHOTOGRAPHER: I had planned to photograph the Women's March anniversary event yesterday in Charlotte but...

January 15, 2018 - The South Carolina NAACP hosted the annual King Day at the Dome this morning in Columbia, SC. Following the statewide pr...

January 01, 2018 - Over the last decade, the annual New Year's Eve Covers Show at New Brookland Tavern in West Columbia has grown to be one...

December 29, 2017 - White supremacists had planned to hold a rally and torch march last night at Marshall Park in Charlotte, N.C. — but inst...

December 23, 2017 - Photo of the Night - December 22, 2017 Mikey Collins, performing with Kid Trails and Hunter Park, pays tribute to Tom...

December 22, 2017 - Photo of the Night - December 21, 2017 Formed in 2005, Charleston's Josh Roberts and the Hinges, played at the New Br...

December 16, 2017 - The Gadsden Mall security had Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires surrounded. Their orange lights bounced off the water of...

December 13, 2017 - Quenetta Gunn, a 33 year-old African American mother of two, was in high school when Doug Jones successfully prosecuted...

December 07, 2017 - '68, Whores, Alistair Hennessey (not pictured) performed at New Brookland Tavern last night in West Columbia, SC. The t...

November 23, 2017 - One of the best things about photography - and most creative endeavors - is the unending process of learning. In celebra...

November 20, 2017 - Charleston's Susto performed at the Music Farm Columbia and will be heading back out on the road during the month of Dec...

November 16, 2017 - PHOTOS AND WORDS BY SEAN RAYFORD University of South Carolina grad Andres Ortega had a nice job in corporate America.

November 16, 2017 - David Bazan performed last night at New Brookland Tavern in West Columbia. Upcoming shows below: Nov 16: The Earl – Atl...

November 05, 2017 - “In colonial America, all able bodied men from teenagers to sixty year-olds served in the militia, a local force that tu...

November 01, 2017 - Children laughing in every direction. Music coming from three. A shriek from a frightened skeleton wearing a tutu and an...

October 28, 2017 - The last time I saw Third Eye Blind my friend Fred punched my not friend Larry at a stadium show in D.C. It rained durin...

October 26, 2017 - A server waits for a drink from the bar at Grill Marks in the Vista on Thursday, October 5, 2017. Photo by Sean Rayford...

October 24, 2017 - NOT SUITABLE FOR WORKPLACE VIEWING - Adult content ahead When I walked into the bathroom my friend Jaime Clark was pain...

October 20, 2017 - Three Texas men with extremist ties have been charged with attempted homicide after firing at a group of protestors yest...

October 18, 2017 - Dressed as Lady Liberty, black tape sealing her lips, Miranda Anderson stood next to Brent Hutcheson on Monday night in...

October 15, 2017 - You know something’s afoot when a dude walks past you on Main Street in Columbia wearing a Merge Records t-shirt and you...

October 12, 2017 - Cameron’s favorite amusement ride at the SC State Fair is the Musik Express, a Matterhorn/Flying Bob style ride with the...

October 07, 2017 - Atlanta's Manchester Orchestra booked their first out of town gig in Columbia, SC and singer Andy Hull, along with his b...

October 05, 2017 - Construction workers build the $40 million mixed use "Brookland" project in West Columbia on Thursday, October 5, 2017....

September 30, 2017 - “One is running out of food and the other is running out of water,” says Yanira Rivera about family members who are batt...

September 16, 2017 - After talking with law enforcement outside of The Empire Supper Club on Lady St. in the Vista early Saturday morning, a...

September 14, 2017 - Yesterday in Middleburg, Florida, covered in strands of Spanish Moss and various pieces of foliage, I paddled up to the...

September 12, 2017 - Yesterday, after weathering Hurricane Irma in Daytona Beach, FL, I started driving towards the Tampa Bay area to see the...

September 11, 2017 - Just before curfew was enacted due to Hurricane Irma yesterday in Daytona Beach, a blow-up doll named Judy, attached to...

September 10, 2017 - As Hurricane Irma migrated north, throwing bands of wind and rain across the sunshine state on Sunday, I encountered a l...

September 10, 2017 - My folks have been living in Flagler County, Florida off and on for twenty years now. I spent a couple summers during co...

September 06, 2017 - "God of love and justice, you are the god of all peoples of every nation and yet no nation. For you do not recognize our...

September 04, 2017 - As republican senator Lindsey Graham rolled by a group of demonstrators from the back seat of a white convertible in Cha...

August 27, 2017 - So far this weekend, I’ve made photos at an Apache helicopter team’s deployment to Afghanistan, a youth golf skills tour...

August 24, 2017 - The Charleston Post and Courier reports that a 'disgruntled' worker entered Virginia's on King in Charleston, SC during...

August 24, 2017 - It was a sneak attack from behind. Energized by the crowd’s appreciation for his jive, sporting a black fanny pack and a...

August 22, 2017 - Yesterday I got to pick where I went to cover the the great American eclipse of 2017. I chose minor league baseball. J...

August 21, 2017 - I hear something weird is going on this afternoon in Columbia, SC. Here's how folks prepared. Photos: Tourists Flock To...

August 20, 2017 - Last night hundreds gathered on the eastern banks of the Congaree to take in a laser light installation that will cris c...

August 13, 2017 - “GET IN THERE AND FIGHT!!!” yelled a white supremacist as I ducked behind a front line of alt-right “infantryman,” clutc...

July 27, 2017 - Mike Busbee and I made this photo for an interview as part of a regular series with Columbia artists. We never got aroun...

July 24, 2017 - Isis Davis was working her shift at Palmetto Outdoor yesterday evening waiting for customers to return tubes after a tri...

July 23, 2017 - While I overheard one comment that the green room wasn’t even green, I saw no other dissatisfaction from anyone backstag...

July 15, 2017 - Some of my earliest memories from childhood involve eating donuts in the Australian Outback. My family had moved from Ma...

July 11, 2017 - “LOOK AT THOSE SNOWFLAKES WITH THEIR PARTICIPATION TROPHY! BOOOOOO!!!!!!” shouts a protestor with a bull horn as a man d...

July 09, 2017 - Deborah Adedokun and Joe Buck Roberts perform at New Brookland Tavern Saturday night in West Columbia, SC on July 8, 201...

July 08, 2017 - In 2015, a New Brookland Tavern staffer took a photo of himself standing near a couple sucking face, posted it on Instag...

July 05, 2017 - “We’re from Sumter!” yells Leia Richardson while holding a garden hose from the top of her front yard yesterday afternoo...

July 03, 2017 - Before yesterday I hadn’t been to a car and bike show concert combination since I was the de facto “manager” of a rap gr...

July 02, 2017 - Adorned with a few American flags and some streamers, a single boat passed by a few families who had gathered yesterday...

July 01, 2017 - “Sarah created this amazing sea monster that was grabbing a boat and it was delivering it from the sky. Our monsters… mi...

June 27, 2017 - Roy Underhill talks with a crowd at the Columbia Museum of Art as a guest of the museum's ArtBreak program this morning...

June 25, 2017 - Outside of a recent trip to the Apple store — because even though Augusta has one, Columbia doesn’t — yesterday was my f...

June 22, 2017 - If you passed through Five Points in Columbia yesterday you may have seen Joe Robinson celebrating Make Music Day walkin...

June 16, 2017 - Sean: If you are eating peanut butter, how or with what are you putting it in your mouth? Tyler: With a spoon. Or in a...

May 10, 2017 - A small group of men and women stand around the Confederate Monument at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, SC. W...

April 24, 2017 - In coordination with Earth Day celebrations on Saturday hundreds of cities across the globe participated in pro-science...

April 13, 2017 - I wasn't out in front of the South Carolina Statehouse again for a another protest. The antiwar protestors just happene...

March 26, 2017 - Some hide -- U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-SC. Some plant supporters in the front rows and have donut holes and coffee -- Tom...

March 22, 2017 - Watching four street artists as they painted a new mural on Millwood Ave., a 59 year-old neighborhood man sat across the...

March 05, 2017 - "No. No. Don't give him the microphone. No. No. No," pleaded one of Sen. Lindsey Graham's staffers from the side of the...

February 27, 2017 - Shawn Herzog (below) helped to organize a pro-Trump rally on President's Day a week ago in Red Bank, SC. On Monday, he j...

February 24, 2017 - Last night’s town hall meeting with Rep. Tom Rice in Florence, SC was a bit more boisterous than than last week’s dual t...

February 21, 2017 - In January of last year, Henry McMaster, then lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina, introduced then candid...

February 04, 2017 - Holding a pink protest sign that read, "I Stand with Standing Rock," and some paperwork from the bank, Stephanie Godbolt...

January 07, 2017 - Sean: Everybody is talking about snow on Saturday. What are you gonna do if it snows? Lindsay Vidal: I hope all my appo...

January 01, 2017 - Three hundred and sixty-four days to do something this year.

December 31, 2016 - In 2016 I learned about tear gas, the superpowers of fishing waders and my need for a chainsaw. Here are 55 photos that...

December 25, 2016 - In 2009 George Trosset, joined by his son and wife, dressed up as Santas on Christmas Eve to surf the waves at Cocoa Bea...

December 19, 2016 - Dave Chamberlain is running across the world. Two weeks ago he began the latest leg of his journey, a 19,000 mile "Forre...

December 14, 2016 - Sean: Have you ever had an imaginary friend? Jessica Bornick: No. If you had an imaginary friend, we’d need a name and...

December 13, 2016 - Sean: Would you rather fight one donkey-sized duck or 100 duck sized donkeys? Josh Bumgarner: I’d probably go with the...

December 12, 2016 - Sean: What makes a good donut? Aaron Graves: A good yeast donut or a cake donut, you can dunk it. The cake or the yeast...

November 12, 2016 - Just before I left Friday night's Anti-Trump protest in downtown Columbia, a couple hundred demonstrators held hands on...

November 08, 2016 - "Do you photograph fireworks or some other substance with gunpowder?" asks a friendly secret service agent named John in...

November 01, 2016 - I went to Autozone last night around 8:30 p.m. and picked up a camouflage hat with a black and white American flag patch...

September 29, 2016 - Not long after light broke on the morning of October 5 of last year, I pulled a u-turn at Harden and Gervais streets. On...

September 25, 2016 - At two a.m. this morning outside of the Omni Hotel in uptown Charlotte, NC, the fifth straight day of protests ended wit...

September 04, 2016 - Yesterday morning I got up at four a.m. to drive over to Gate 2 at Fort Jackson. Another in many recent newspaper assign...

August 28, 2016 - If you attended the second day of Hoechella on Saturday at New Brookland in West Columbia you'll probably remember it as...

August 22, 2016 - There was a high of ninety one today in Columbia, SC and my roommate remarked how nice it was when he walked out of the...

August 08, 2016 - When I ran into Summer Ruisseaux on Friday night at New Brookland Tavern she was a bit apprehensive about hosting a hous...

July 24, 2016 - Just before sundown during the final day the 2016 Republican National Convention a young boy wandered up and down a sect...

July 20, 2016 - "NAZI SCUM!...OFF OUR STREETS! NAZI SCUM!...OFF OUR STREETS! NAZI SCUM!...OFF OUR STREETS! I can hear protestors in the...

July 18, 2016 - "Bicycle! Bicycle! Bicycle! I want to ride my bicycle! Bicycle. Bicycle! I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride my bi...

July 11, 2016 - I started my Sunday morning covering a Confederate flag rally on the statehouse grounds for The Post & Courier. I went t...

July 01, 2016 - “I think living in Charleston you get caught up — being ' house poor ' — I think they call it. We have always been conce...

June 24, 2016 - Back when Susto's Justin Osborne fronted Charleston's Sequoyah Prep School I used to tend bar at New Brookland Tavern wh...

May 23, 2016 - I've been shooting shows at New Brookland Tavern in West Columbia since 1998. That's ridiculous and I don't know how I f...

April 08, 2016 - Last weekend I stopped back through New York City on my return trip south during a 2,588 mile road tour on the East Coas...

April 06, 2016 - One of my favorite memories during my days as a bartender at New Brookland Tavern was a Slingshot Dakota show. So when I...

April 05, 2016 - "Patch," a farmer from Indiana and thru-hiker on the Appalachian Trail, looks out towards the Peaks of Otter from the Bl...

April 01, 2016 - "This dog's name is Clamcake, you don't get more Rhode Island than that," explains Steve Medgyesy, who handles marketing...

March 31, 2016 - Armando feeds the pigeons just outside of the "Ancient Buriual Ground" at The First Church of Christ in downtown Hartfor...

March 29, 2016 - "Those select few through time who are willing to go out into chaos, with some high hopes of interacting with a moment w...

March 28, 2016 - I wouldn't call it a parade, definitely more like a meandering. But what do I know, I’m just another asshole with a came...

March 26, 2016 - “I can buy any car. I'm a multi-millionaire," explains Nesse Cohen from a lookout point on the Skyline Drive in Virginia...

March 25, 2016 - Yesterday in Laurel Springs, VA and in the heart of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Wild Woody's opened their doors for the firs...

March 20, 2016 - I imagine The Drive by Truckers have seen some interesting things in their days. Despite that, Saturday evening they tha...

February 13, 2016 - "The word deflowered sounds like this pretty word but it's like this horrible thing. Some bad thing that somebody does t...

February 07, 2016 - You may remember Matt Buck as the sousaphone player who trolled members of Ku Klux Klan during their July rally at the S...

February 01, 2016 - One of the first photographers we meet in Cheryl Dunn's Everybody Street is a gentleman with a thick accent named Boogie...

January 19, 2016 - On Martin Luther King Day and just in front of the Confederate monument at the South Carolina State House, members of th...

January 07, 2016 - In Andrews, South Carolina on October 9, 2015 Davey Morris showed me around his neighborhood where floodwaters from the...

January 01, 2016 - I felt for the folks last night celebrating New Year's Eve when I watched a girl finish a Bud Light at the front of the...

December 28, 2015 - What did Santa bring you this year? He brought me fog. And I think I like fog more than Spanish moss. And I love Spanis...

December 21, 2015 - Last night at the Art Bar, in a somewhat surprise appearance, Teabag Balzac, Spanky Swatnasty, Packer and Lady Miss Mang...

December 07, 2015 - It was day three of my flood coverage when the sun came back out. I woke up early and photographed the attempts to repai...

November 29, 2015 - All the lights were off in the room where I saw Prince and Sugar Ray in 1997. Not in the same evening though. For the ne...

November 23, 2015 - A week ago this morning, I was preparing to cover a student organized walkout and protest at the University of South Car...

November 16, 2015 - After more than a decade doggy paddling through the world of freelance photojournalism and a news filled year in South C...

November 03, 2015 - Last Tuesday night I spent my evening wandering on the eastern edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans. My first stop...

November 01, 2015 - "I didn't even know I was preggers," said Say Brother guitarist Zach Morrison out back of New Brookland on Halloween nig...

October 30, 2015 - "Welcome to the place where all the creatures meet The last building to your left on a dead-end street Youll find skel...

October 27, 2015 - After dropping my tuxedo off with the concierge at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas I jumped back i...

October 23, 2015 - Since Sunday, I've been meandering across the southeastern United States, spending most of my time in New Orleans. The w...

October 16, 2015 - From behind the bar at New Brookland Tavern on Monday night, a War Eagle bartender tapped me on the shoulder as The Fish...

October 15, 2015 - As I walk past the newly raised rocket on opening night at the South Carolina State Fair, a man with a selfie stick trie...

September 30, 2015 - According to many of the world's best BMX riders - Rock Hill, South Carolina is home to one of the best BMX facilities i...

September 09, 2015 - By the time the Southern 500 began in Darlington, SC on Sunday I had already been at the track for nine hours and met my...

August 19, 2015 - "The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his champ...

August 14, 2015 - Recipe for Killbot 2000 Two moving boxes One large bag full of random shit from Radio Shack including lights, an exh...

July 30, 2015 - It's a little over two hours to Newton, North Carolina and the historic Hickory Motor Speedway. As I walk through the ro...

July 27, 2015 - I've photographed ten billion bands - musicians like Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Elton John, Britney Spears, Willie Nel...

July 17, 2015 - “Oprah isn't going to get mad at ya?” jests a shop employee as Ramone, Corey and Sean from 2 Fat 2 Fly fame try on their...

July 06, 2015 - It's getting weird. Nevermind, it's always been that way.

July 05, 2015 - Members of the South Carolina legislature have been notified that they are scheduled to return to Columbia, SC on Monday...

July 03, 2015 - I'm hovering over my "food set," balancing on a chair in my dining room with my camera in one hand. I rarely shoot food,...

June 28, 2015 - Shortly after pallbearers had carried the body of South Carolina State Senator Rev. Clementa Pinckney back into Emanuel...

June 27, 2015 - Only a few hours after Bree Newsome climbed up a pole and removed the confederate flag on the South Carolina Statehouse...

June 24, 2015 - Six days following the "Holy City Massacre," the body of South Carolina Senator Clementa Pinckney traveled down Main Str...

June 23, 2015 - It's been less than a week since Dylann Roof shot and killed nine parishioners at the most historic church in the Holy C...

June 18, 2015 - "What's your job?" asked one of several waif like creatures who curiously approached me at the Old Salkehatchie Mud Pit...

June 16, 2015 - If one were to judge my travels in and around Columbia, SC by this edit of Instragram photos I've made during the last t...

June 01, 2015 - "Kind of like the Power Puff Girls but sluttier," explains Katie Sheridan as we lay the groundwork for a cartoon show fe...

May 26, 2015 - Alex Strickland, vocalist of Abacus (and Bathe) spent ten days on tour in March 2014 alongside Sein zum Tode to SXSW and...

May 24, 2015 - Kicking off the Memorial Day weekend on Friday night in West Columbia, it seemed there was little more personality reari...

May 22, 2015 - Among other things, Bono is terrified of a vacuuming werewolf. Or at least that's what I gathered from the ET Anderson f...

May 20, 2015 - Model: Shannon Watson Make-up: Lindsey Vidal Hair Stylist: Topher Carnes Yoga Instructor: Brenda Ingbretsen-Way

May 19, 2015 - "CAN YOU PICK IT UP?" I shouted from across an overgrown parking lot on Sunday evening at Columbia comedian Joe Coughlin...

May 16, 2015 - I'm balancing between a Red Bull table and a metal stool during Of Montreal's headlining set when Tyler Morris of E.T. A...

May 14, 2015 - What are we going to complain about now that Columbia has a venue to accommodate it's very own hometown indie rock super...

May 13, 2015 - Grocery store parking lot - West Columbia, SC - Wednesday 10:34 AM - Tortilla chips and salsa, eggs and cheese.

May 05, 2015 - I ran into my friend Chris, operator of Hippy Do-Da Creations a local hand-crafted jewelry vendor inside the artists' vi...

April 30, 2015 - "Mine all mine - Wander - Away we go." Even the chicken factory looked beautiful this morning.

April 27, 2015 - When I first arrived at the Eighth Annual Greater Columbia Record Fair yesterday at the art museum, I climbed the stairs...

April 21, 2015 - Some would perceive an unseasonably cool Tuesday morning and riverwalk impeding high waters of the Congaree as an inoppo...

April 14, 2015 - Just after the turn of the century - around the time I started working at New Brookland Tavern - a band from North Carol...

April 12, 2015 - After a discussion on the various Soda City underworlds with Congaree River Keeper Bill Stangler and a couple local musi...

April 10, 2015 - Terrence Wright grew up with Walter Scott in North Charleston where they went to the same elementary and middle schools...

April 06, 2015 - "When they come around that red marker, that's when they let loose with the profanities," explains my captain as the sai...

April 05, 2015 - I knew this wasn't your average sporting event when my friend Katie showed up and showered a participant with champagne...

April 03, 2015 - There are 7,070 miles between Columbia, SC and the hometowns of the five bands who visited New Brookland Tavern last nig...

April 03, 2015 - “It is the custom to look back on ourselves of the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror...But it had its...

March 29, 2015 - On Saturday afternoon I climbed on top of a "party bus" in the area known as College Park at the 2015 Carolina Cup in Ca...

March 23, 2015 - The folks in Say Brother and I and a group of new friends spent Thursday night camping fifteen miles from Austin during...

March 20, 2015 - After an early evening show on Seventh St. yesterday the guys in Say Brother decided to forgo the city lights of Austin...

March 18, 2015 - It's 1164 miles from Columbia, SC to Austin, TX and a little more than halfway sits the city of New Orleans. Headed to S...

March 16, 2015 - My arrival to the St. Pat's Fest couldn't have been more appropriate on Saturday afternoon. Larry Bird being confronted...

March 15, 2015 - J. Roddy Walston and the Business was the last band to perform at yesterday's St. Patricks Day Festival. Here are a bunc...

March 12, 2015 - Out on the battery in Charleston, SC yesterday there was a small group of young folks bouncing between the two main foun...

March 09, 2015 - Shooting sports can be grand. Especially when win or lose, it's the last game of the season - and some careers. Sixteen...

March 04, 2015 - In case anyone was wondering, it's now March, which apparently means we're looking at a high of 80 today, followed with...

March 01, 2015 - Several years ago, out back of the local rock club, Richland County Regulator coach Jason Fant told me, "It's not Friday...

February 27, 2015 - On Thursday morning I met up with a skankless Deborah Adedokun at Drip Coffee in Five Points seeking a random exchange o...

February 22, 2015 - I've had my eyes on The Courtroom at Gettys in Rock Hill, SC for good while now. I'd see photos from friends' bands pass...

February 19, 2015 - I love Instagram. I mean come on, if you told me 10 years ago that I'd be able to walk around with camera technology lik...

February 17, 2015 - If you were 18 and lived in Columbia at the time of The Civil War, what would your role be in the war? Michael Krajewsk...

February 16, 2015 - One hundred and fifty years ago today General William Tecumseh Sherman ordered the shelling of Columbia, South Carolina.

February 14, 2015 - Things were going well on Saturday afternoon. I was able to catch the Mardi Gras parade through Rosewood and General She...

February 13, 2015 - A few weeks back Reno Flowers Gooch and I were in Tiger Town Tavern in Clemson, SC and when some college kids asked me a...

February 11, 2015 - In the final minutes against their rivals from AC Flora, Dreher students watched with great anticipation - as the teams...

February 09, 2015 - Repticon invaded the Jamil Temple on Saturday and Sunday so I wandered out and made some photos of people walking around...

February 07, 2015 - There was a time period where I often walked to work at my old bartending gig. I'd leave about an hour early and I'd mak...

February 05, 2015 - Two people are dead after what's being called a murder-suicide by State Law Enforcement Division on the campus of the Un...

February 04, 2015 - "Bogeyman (also spelled bogieman, boogeyman, or boogie man, and pronounced / b ʊ ɡ i m æ n / or / b oʊ ɡ i m æ n /; see...

February 01, 2015 - "You don't want to get chippy with these guys, they know how to make you hurt," explained a former USC rugby player roam...

January 21, 2015 - I caught the introductions from Governor Nikki Haley at the State of the State and immediately jetted from the capital....

January 20, 2015 - Westbound on I-26 out of Charleston, SC following Sunday night's gig at the Royal American the ET Anderson spaceship sha...

January 19, 2015 - I ran into a volunteer at the World Beer Festival on Saturday who'd I'd met this past Halloween (I think she was Captain...

January 17, 2015 - Last night in West Columbia, throngs of young Christian metalcore fans wrapped around New Brookland to catch the Sioux C...

January 16, 2015 - At the turn of the century I was at a house party on South Waccamaw St. when I walked into the kitchen and my buddy's li...

January 14, 2015 - Despite being outscored 9-0 to start the game on Tuesday evening in Columbia, SC, the Gamecocks were able to snap a five...

January 11, 2015 - What a strange profession. I'd never really thought about it until yesterday as tip-off approached for the Harlem Globet...

January 09, 2015 - I spent three days this week wandering around South Carolina between Columbia and Orangeburg being in the right place at...

January 08, 2015 - Dorian Finney-Smith tosses a shot from the top of the key as the Florida Gators notched a victory over the South Carolin...

January 05, 2015 - At times on Saturday night, a miniature waterfall developed over the back exit at New Brookland Tavern in West Columbia.

December 31, 2014 - For me, 2014 has most resembled the journey our elementary school kickball used to take during homeruns and when someone...

December 31, 2014 - It's the morning of the final day of the year and we've only reached June of 2014 in this 365 day music narrative. That...

December 30, 2014 - Welcome back. If you've been following along with the narrative, we're about a third of the way through 2014 and picking...

December 28, 2014 - Against Me! at New Brookland Tavern At first, I thought that I might be able to cram a years worth of my music photogra...

December 23, 2014 - It's seven eleven when I first walk past Froggy's Saloon on Main Street in Daytona Beach on Monday morning. To my surpri...

December 22, 2014 - I like swamps, spring break, Tim Tebow and Hot Water Music. And despite lots of my friends giving hell to the entire sta...

December 18, 2014 - #Party

December 16, 2014 - Over fifteen years ago I looked out over the scene above as Hurricane Floyd tossed the sailboats around like little toys...

December 04, 2014 - As a freelance photographer, I end up shooting for a lot of different entities. From the university, a greek organizatio...

November 26, 2014 - About a hundred people gathered at the foot of a thirty foot christmas tree and a confederate flag on Tuesday evening at...

November 25, 2014 - As the orange glow of the flaming feline lit up the crowd at Tiger Burn last night, a most surreal feeling swept over me...

November 21, 2014 - Sean: Draw me something in this space in five minutes or less. Brian: Anything? Yea. Goddamnit. Anything as long...

November 21, 2014 - If you were traveling around downtown Columbia last night and were detoured from your usual route, you can blame the ann...

November 19, 2014 - On Tuesday morning I noticed that the Gamecocks had a noon tip-off vs. Baylor and thought, that'd be a nice way to spend...

November 17, 2014 - Getting the tree straight. Monday - November 17, 2014 - 10:58 am - Main Street - Columbia, SC 200mm - f/4.5 - 1/500...

November 16, 2014 - "It's like if there was a sport where coaches competed for best locker room talks, except it's twenty-some teenage girls...

November 15, 2014 - The past five days my alarm has sounded in the morning and I've thought, "I should get out and make some photos on the S...

November 12, 2014 - On Monday, when I took this same drive down South Carolina State Highway #6 through St. Matthews there were still more t...

November 11, 2014 - Sunday was a really tough day for me. Both physically and mentally. Fortunately, I've developed a coping habit where I o...

November 02, 2014 - After working at New Brookland Tavern for over a decade, I had grown almost desensitized to the creative wheels of the l...

October 31, 2014 - BOOOOOOOOWWWWHIHHHHHIIIIPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!! BOOOOOOOOWWWWHIHHHHHIIIIPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!! DO NOT USE THE ELEVATOR! I was next...

October 28, 2014 - Ivadell's Josh Gilley watches as OG David Adedokun tries to rescue the vocal mic last night at Foxfield on Rosewood in C...

October 15, 2014 - When you are photographing puddles, your actions appear somewhat absurd to the average passerby. Crouching and contortin...

October 12, 2014 - "The drums exploded and our amps are down, but Mathew's got it wired and we're coming around." The sounds of Superchunk...

October 09, 2014 - Fascinated by the organization of shapes and colors and avid observer of human behavior - the fair for me is heaven. The...

September 25, 2014 - If I'm gonna shoot flash photography at a show, I'm typically using one or two remotely fired Nikon SB600 flash units. T...

September 23, 2014 - I once had a donut problem. It began as a grade schooler in Mt. Airy, MD when I participated in a community pool swim-a-...

September 22, 2014 - On Saturday afternoon the South Carolina community celebrated the annual Pride Fest by turning Main Street in the capita...

September 19, 2014 - Last Friday I found a seat on the River Bluff team bus on a trip to Fort Mill High for a match-up against a team that ra...

September 16, 2014 - On the final weekend of August I had a newspaper assignment to photograph the Palmetto Capital City Classic, the season...

September 15, 2014 - About the time the game was supposed to kickoff against Georgia on Saturday I was hiding from the rain under one of the...

September 14, 2014 - I met up with Bakari before the Diarrhea Planet show at Art Bar the other week. Before I could get the questions rolling...

September 10, 2014 - For twenty years I've been stumbling around photography and the creative process and until recently, I've been pretty cl...

September 04, 2014 - For the third time in as many years, I traveled to BFSC with some good friends to pursue the elusive Aiken County Slurto...

September 02, 2014 - As the last thunderstorm of summer loomed over the bottom end of the Saluda River yesterday, the humans adventuring down...

August 29, 2014 - Before being steamrolled by Texas A&M on Thursday night to kick off the college football season, South Carolina was ridi...

August 28, 2014 - From an outsider's perspective, the 101 year-old Texas A&M transition of "Midnight Yell" or "Yell Practice" looks like a...

August 27, 2014 - I've been meaning to do this photo column (which will be a sibling to " Soda Citizen ") for several years and I am pleas...

August 25, 2014 - Monday - August 25, 2014 - 2:37 pm - South Carolina Statehouse - Columbia, SC 200mm - f/2.8 - 1/8000 - ISO 200

August 21, 2014 - I met up with Daniel Machado of the Restoration for coffee and meaningless conversation last week. "Constance," a stage...

August 21, 2014 - I visited Clemson University in upstate South Carolina yesterday and all I came back with was this lousy photo of a dude...

August 16, 2014 - I had forgotten the implications of being an out during the last inning when your team is losing an elimination game or...

August 11, 2014 - Lexington pitcher Zachary Shealy only gave up one hit against Muscle Shoals, Alabama on Sunday night at the Dixie Youth...

August 07, 2014 - A few weeks back I got a phone call from Curt Heiny, an EDM producer from Columbia, who makes and performs under the mon...

August 02, 2014 - I tracked down Dylan Dickerson of Dear Blanca at last night's Arts & Draughts to not talk about their new record or the...

August 01, 2014 - “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound lik...

July 30, 2014 - Just before Steely Dan took the stage last night at the Township Auditorium, I had a conversation with a venue employee...

July 27, 2014 - Sunday July 27, 2014 - 3:55 pm - Capital City Stadium - Columbia, SC 140 mm - f/2.8 - 1/5000 - ISO 400

July 24, 2014 - July 18, 2007 - Anthony Green of Circa Survive - Charlotte, NC I bought my first and only ticket to a Warped Tour on th...

July 21, 2014 - It was a pretty close match at the Columbia Armory on Saturday evening between the Richland County Regulators and Greens...

July 19, 2014 - July 19, 2014 - 10:13 am - Highway #1 Flea Market - West Columbia, SC 160 mm - f/2.8 - 1/4000 - ISO 200

July 17, 2014 - I've been photographing and working shows involving different projects from Atlanta musician Josh Scogin for most of my...

July 14, 2014 - "I thought it would be a freakshow out here," says Lisa Joy on Saturday afternoon at the Jamil Temple. "But it's not - i...

July 12, 2014 - July 12, 2014 - 10:52 am - Highway #1 Flea Market - West Columbia, SC 28 mm - f/2.8 - 1/320 - ISO 1600

July 11, 2014 - In West Columbia, SC posters are against the law. Land of the free unless you are a business like a live music venue wan...

July 10, 2014 - There are currently over 15,000 edited photographs in my online archives, so it makes sense that we start revisiting som...

July 08, 2014 - This was my first Fourth of July holiday weekend without a hotdog - despite the efforts of the track announcer at the La...

July 04, 2014 - This time next year, there will probably be a supermarket here at Capital City Stadium on a site where residents of Colu...

July 02, 2014 - It's 4 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon in Columbia, SC - Delaney's Pub in Five Points is slammed and you better not be dr...

June 26, 2014 - As Ash and Scott grapple with the severity of their cabin vacation, our main character's best bud sheds light on the sit...

June 23, 2014 - Just on the inside of the the doorway to the runway it was like a colony of bees. Make-up artists and hair professionals...

June 20, 2014 - Some of the younger ones made a few wrong turns like tee-ballers exploring the baseball diamond for the first time in ga...

June 19, 2014 - Columbia Fashion Week (previously Columbia Style Week) kicked off it's third annual event on Tuesday night at Studio Cel...

June 17, 2014 - John Gibson, a harbinger of humor with the fledgling Soda City Stand Up and Columbia's new home for comedy - The Red Doo...

June 15, 2014 - As they entered the fourth quarter trailing by two scores things weren't looking so hot for the Blondes in their Alzheim...

June 11, 2014 - On Tuesday morning I had an assignment to photograph South Carolina women's basketball coach and three-time Olympic gold...

June 09, 2014 - It's a thousand mile round trip between Columbia, SC and my old home in Maryland where I just returned from a family pic...

May 25, 2014 - "There's dead fish in this water! Something ate a hole in it's side!" explained the boy in the wet shirt after finding a...

May 15, 2014 - Last week Can't Kids introduced a new item to the Beezer's menu, a staple in most young Soda Citizens' diets. The "Joe B...

May 02, 2014 - I've always been a fan of the Olympia neighborhood on the edge of Williams Brice Stadium in Columbia, SC. The strange di...

April 20, 2014 - For a few minutes on Thursday night, patrons at the Columbia Museum of Art were teleported to Antarctica with a large he...

April 18, 2014 - It's that time of year again and humans are starting to explore the banks of the South Carolina midlands river system ag...

April 14, 2014 - Entering it's eighth year, the Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, SC showcases 15 feature and almost 50 short films,...

April 07, 2014 - Important rules from Runway Runway, an annual recycled fashion show organized by the Columbia Design League and held on...

March 27, 2014 - This time two weeks ago during the SXSW Music Festival I was avoiding cacti while driving my bicycle around Willie Nelso...

March 25, 2014 - "Street rat in a ball," said the young man wearing a knit cap on Sixth St. in downtown Austin on a Wednesday night durin...

March 24, 2014 - While scarfing a huge plate of nachos in a forgettable bar in Austin, TX I listened as Kylesa's Phillip Cope talked abou...

March 22, 2014 - If you were driving around town near the statehouse or the USC campus on Saturday morning, your regular traffic pattern...

March 18, 2014 - "GET YOUR HENNY! GET YOUR CIROC! GET YOUR RITAS!" announced a "bartender" from the back of his pick-up truck on North Br...

March 17, 2014 - "MOM! MOM! MOM!" I could hear the chant behind me funneling through the chaos of St. Patrick's Day in Five Points, Colu...

March 17, 2014 - Sometimes the humans react in strange and awesome ways when they see me with a camera. A long time ago (think Jesus time...

March 11, 2014 - "It's about to get real windy out here," says the dude carrying the leaf blower on the deck of the Javelina Bar at 69 Ra...

March 09, 2014 - Eight hours east of Austin, Texas - we skirt along the 40 mile wide Pontchartrain lake just north of New Orleans in a To...

March 05, 2014 - A few weeks back I took a trip into the woods near Clemson, SC on assignment for Columbia's alt-weekly, The Free Times c...

March 04, 2014 - As the sun crashed across the City Roots Farm near Owens Field Airport on Saturday, groups of children played on piles o...

March 03, 2014 - The premise of this photoblog is a pursuit of rainbow pooping unicorns. Saturday morning I came pretty close, when I sho...

February 24, 2014 - Alex Larmey, a combat engineering army officer who recently served in Afghanistan, came down from upstate New York to fi...

February 21, 2014 - Last weekend, Trustus Theatre in the Vista hosted the Henderson Bros. Burlesque Show in celebration of Valentine's Day....

February 20, 2014 - The last time I took a photograph of Grayson Venters of Small Sanctions, he was making funny faces floating down the Con...

February 17, 2014 - "Where our footsteps pass - fire, ashes and desolation follow in the path. When I hear their cries for help, their wails...

February 13, 2014 - Eighty-five miles an hour down a three quarter mile frozen Russian water slide? Try going down Barnwell or Henderson Str...

February 13, 2014 - For the second time in two weeks, The South has been sideswiped by a nefarious winter storm. Yesterday in Columbia, the...

February 10, 2014 - On four Friday nights each year Soda citizens gather downtown at the Columbia Museum of Art to listen to live music, dri...

February 03, 2014 - The game ended and I thought the Gamecocks had won. There was no scoreboard to look at and I wasn't even sure how points...

January 30, 2014 - GO COCKS! The University Hill neighborhood in Columbia, SC separates the Five Points bar district from the USC campus. I...

January 29, 2014 - "It's cold and snow is actually on the ground. Of this no snow town. And instead of cars, the streets trafficking in sle...

January 28, 2014 - There's been a buzz of excitement during the last 24 hours concerning the possible accumulation of snow in the capital o...

January 16, 2014 - Last night Gainesville's Against Me! played at New Brookland Tavern in West Columbia, SC. I didn't have to bartend so I...

January 15, 2014 - I crossed the Congaree River via the Gervais St. bridge on foot for the first time in 1999 to see Stretch Arm Strong pla...

January 11, 2014 - "Are we that interesting? That you must photograph us?" said one of the officers who approached me on the sidewalk last...

January 08, 2014 - "Pathetic Earthlings! Hurling your bodies out into the void without the sligthest inkling of who or what is out here. If...

January 07, 2014 - In 2014 I promise to photograph more mosh pits, more portraits and more action figures. Hopefully all at the same time....

January 04, 2014 - Moments before I planned to walk out the door to catch the Clemsux vs. Ohio Stinks game last night, my phone sounded bac...

January 02, 2014 - 2014 took me by complete surprise. Outta the warm Florida night air the new year exploded on a corner of Church St. in d...

January 01, 2014 - Kickoff between the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Wisconsin Badgers in the 2014 Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL is 150 min...

December 31, 2013 - As soon as I arrived in Orlando I headed to The Local Bar and Grill for some punk rock and tracked down my good bud and...

November 25, 2013 - Every home game this year I've ridden my bicycle down to Williams Brice Stadium to photograph Gamecock fans in anticipat...

November 18, 2013 - I almost went to the University of Florida, but instead I ended up a Gamecock here in Columbia, SC. My freshman year at...

November 14, 2013 - I recently began working with a creative agency in Columbia who reached out to me on my Instagram feed. And just like I...

October 30, 2013 - Have you ever cried in Delaney's Pub in Five Points? Last Halloween I joined that club with a horde of drunk college gi...

October 19, 2013 - When I was a regular contributing photographer at the State Newspaper, I made it a habit to stop by the music editor's d...

October 10, 2013 - I somehow feel that my life is now more complete because I saw a bear attack a human with a ladder. It was "part of the...

October 01, 2013 - If you regularly read this photoblog, then you already know that I'm a professional unicorn hunter (See "When Rainbows P...

September 16, 2013 - I can only speculate as to why she had it out for that Weber. I only looked that way after the charcoal grill crashed to...

September 13, 2013 - We could hear the firetrucks screaming past New Brookland Tavern in West Columbia about 30 minutes before doors were to...

August 26, 2013 - On Sunday afternoon, hordes of screaming coeds took over the historic horseshoe at the University of South Carolina to t...

August 20, 2013 - We weren't planning on spending the last two hours of our hike stumbling down the side of a mountain in the dark. But li...

August 09, 2013 - My favorite photography medium to work in is now "book" - followed closely by buttons. I'm happy to announce that...

July 24, 2013 - "Don't you know what you are doing is against the law?" shouted the Westinghouse Nuclear facility's rent-a-cop from the...

June 21, 2013 - "Was it dark or light beer?" "That's awesome if that is your first question - and it was a PBR." So begins my phone co...

May 20, 2013 - I saw three notable bands at Rockafellas' during my freshman year at USC before the music venue shut it's doors: Machine...

May 13, 2013 - I spent the Saturday before last hanging out at Williams Brice Stadium photographing the Kenny Chesney concert. Most of...

April 29, 2013 - "The Bangover lasts about three days. The first show, you lose your mind [onstage]. And then the next two you are in ago...

April 23, 2013 - The drunk guy at the festival has always been a side attraction for me, orchestrating a ballet of intoxication that is o...

April 14, 2013 - Jadeveon "Hammer of the Gods" Clowney was standing next to me on the sideline in sneakers and shorts when the quarterbac...

April 09, 2013 - I'm experiencing a strange personal dream episode of MSNBC's Lock Up. It's as if the hand of god has reached down throug...

February 15, 2013 - I would compare Columbia's third annual Mardi Gras Festival held at City Roots, to the long running St. Partick's Day Fe...

January 23, 2013 - I found out about last Wednesday night's show at Cult Classic after running into a band from Miami outside of Drip Coffe...

January 02, 2013 - "Could you take my picture - cause I won't remember." -'Take a Picture' by Filter (1999) Can you blame me? Here's th...

December 26, 2012 - Shoot for the Moon. Hopefully, Santa was able to fit that 400mm AF f2.8 down the chimney the other night and you woke u...

December 21, 2012 - I spent the final week before the end of the world wandering around Columbia observing how my fellow citizens of the Sod...

December 17, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina By my rough estimate - come New Year's Eve - I will have seen over 600 bands play this year an...

December 04, 2012 - After the recent acquisition of another AK-47 by a co-worker at the music club, it seemed like an opportune time to revi...

October 27, 2012 - It's not quite Halloween in Columbia, South Carolina but it's Friday night and we're living in Zombie Town Soda City sty...

October 23, 2012 - Friday - October 19, 2012 - Columbia, SC "Awe come on pig. Just jump in the darn water," pleaded the former strip club...

October 06, 2012 - Columbia Museum of Art - Friday, October 5, 2012 - Cola Con I spent most of the evening at the Rock 93.5 Fall Out Festi...

September 26, 2012 - I didn't expect to see anybody at New Brookland Tavern when I dropped by mid-afternoon on Tuesday to double check my wor...

September 18, 2012 - College sports rivalries are so much fun, especially when your alma mater comes out victorious over those nasty orange h...

August 27, 2012 - August 26, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina Sunday was the final day of the Famously Hot Music Festival at Finlay...

August 26, 2012 - August 25, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina I have come to the conclusion that some of the happiest people on earth ar...

August 25, 2012 - August 24, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina As I walked across the perpetually soaked concert lawn of Finlay Park yest...

August 16, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina: July 31 - August 11, 2012 A few months back I moved over to the west side of town, a mere 9...

July 25, 2012 - From here on out I will be naming my cameras after Hall of Fame baseball players. I'm thinking that if I can give the tw...

July 18, 2012 - Monday, July 16, 2012 - Columbia, South Carolina I stood at the top of the South Carolina state house steps and looke...

July 05, 2012 - June 30, 2012: Columbia, South Carolina It was the hottest day known to history in the state of South Carolina. Here in...

June 25, 2012 - June 22, 2012 My co-workers from the New Brookland Tavern like shooting guns and one of them just got an AK. It's also...

June 07, 2012 - Columbia, SC: June 5-6, 2012 Welcome to The Soda City. The first post in a regular series that is simply a product of...

May 22, 2012 - Monday, May 21, 2012 - New Brookland Tavern - West Columbia, SC You may recognize the Pretty Things Peep Show from NY I...

May 07, 2012 - Rosewood Crawfish Festival - Columbia, SC - May 5, 2012 I'm pretty sure it was mid-song, during an instrumental interlu...

May 01, 2012 - Dudes in vans. Sunday, April 22, 2012 - New Brookland Tavern I have been bartending at New Brookland Tavern for too lon...

April 23, 2012 - April 17, 2012: New Brookland Tavern On a hobbled picnic bench in a parking lot next to an abandoned motorcycle co-op g...

April 18, 2012 - I filed an extension yesterday and decided to use the time I would have spent dealing with our unreasonably complex tax...

April 03, 2012 - While visiting my old stomping grounds from the grade school days a few months ago during the Christmas holiday in Mt. A...

February 27, 2012 - I've heard people talk about unicorns dropping out of the sky and then pooping rainbows. You might say those people are...