About: Rob

Chris Hefner began shooting his new feature film, The Poisoner, last week.  I loitered around the set while some fantastically spooky images were  constructed all around us.  The first day of shooting took place at the endangered Portage Theater and carried on to a former furniture factory in Jefferson Park that has become the film’sContinue Reading

Megan and Luke revisited one of their teen-age haunts while I licked at ice cream and snapped photos all at once.  Multi-tasking can be both fun and delicious.  The Chocolate Shoppe rules and so do Megan and Luke!  I’m psyched to shoot their wedding next month.  

My dream of touring the factory of the last pinball giant has finally been fulfilled.  I got to roam the Melrose Park facility and test out their new AC/DC pinball machine.  A handful of the photos that I snapped ran alongside a feature article that Miles Raymer wrote for The Chicago Reader.  Check it outContinue Reading

Chris Hefner (the fellow pictured below),  is in the pre-production phase of his new feature film, The Poisoner.  We built this  paper…..well… plywood, really… moon and set it up as a sort of photo booth at The Everleigh Social Club during a fundraising event for the film’s budget.  Check out a more robust selection ofContinue Reading

Crown Tap Room in Logan Square was transformed into a the kind of  holiday hell house that could only be built from the dreams of one serious Halloweener.  That ‘Ween dreamer was none other than Shana East.   Cover bands included The Damned, The Cramps , Devo and GG Allin (with whom I had the pleasureContinue Reading