Sacramento area photojournalist - serving Northern California, San Francisco the central valley and the north coast

Photojournalism portfolio: Single images With over twenty years of experience as a photojournalist John has the experience you need for your next job. His assignments have taken him across the globe from Sacramento to Singapore, Jersey City to Jordan, Temecula to Tel Aviv. His work has been published in New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, USA Today, Stern, by the Associated Press, Bloomberg News and many others. Visit the portfolio →

Photo essay: California recall election of 2003 In 2003, while working as a staff photographer for The Sacramento Bee, John covered the historic recall election in California. Governor Gray Davis was down in the polls after budget problems and the state's power crisis. 300 candidates, including actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, sought to replace Davis. Schwarzenegger went on to win the election in October 2003 and was re-elected in 2006. See the portfolio of recall images →

Portfolio: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger From May of 2005 through December of 2006 John worked as the official photographer of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. John documented the activities of the governor, First Lady Maria Shriver and the first family. His work took him across the country and the globe as he documented the historic intersection of politics and celebrity that surrounded Schwarzenegger. Visit the portfolio of Schwarzenegger images →

Photo essay: Water Wars - The Klamath water crisis The Klamath River in Klamath, Ore. supplies water to many diverse interests in the Klamath Basin. An endangered species, the sucker fish, has created a conflict over water flows from the Klamath reservoir into the Klamath river. A lack of water in the region has environmentalists, farmers and Native Americans fighting with the U.S. Department of the Interior over what little water is left. See the photo essay on the Klamath water crisis →

The Photojournalist's Coffee House Here you will find a photo documentary on a homeless community in Covington, Kentucky and photo essays on carnival workers in Ohio, the clowns of the Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers circus and a homeless couple living on the banks of the Hudson River in Jersey City. In 1994, I launched my first web site and called it the Photojournalist's Coffee House. Today it is a bit of a relic from the past, but still quite interesting and worth checking out. Visit the coffee house →

JohnThePhotographer is an award winning photojournalist with over 20 years of photojournalism experience. His career has taken him across the globe working on the staffs of the New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, the Sacramento Bee and others. From 2003 through 2005, he was the personal photographer of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger where he documented the activities of the governor and first lady. You can read more about his extensive experience here.

Want to see more of John's work? Check out his gallery of images from Vashon Island in Washington State.