This week on the blog, we’re sharing some images from a project we’ve been working on for the past year. In the Spring of 2020 (you know, the one where the world completely shut down…), we were contracted by the NRCS to work on a book project for some of their grant recipients. Over the course of the last year, we’ve traveled around, meeting these grant recipients, spending some time with them on their farms and properties and documenting the ways in which they’ve utilized fencing, wells, irrigation systems, rotator crops, and animals to make food while caring for, protecting and even encouraging the development of their natural resources.

If you’re a photographer and you’ve had to work indoors in a building designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, you can pretty much point your camera in any direction and make a good photograph. As you can imagine, the same could be said of photographing in their offices. With a website refresh on the horizon, they invited us to do just that.

For the past couple of years, we have been working with the University of Arkansas’s Center for Farms and Food (CAFF) to document and promote the work they are doing. CAFF was developed to strengthen and expand the area’s food and farming system, enhance local communities, and provide opportunities for farmers, food entrepreneurs and food system leaders. Combining traditional and experiential learning opportunities, their Farm School and Apprenticeship programs teach the production and business skills to develop resilient and sustainable businesses.

As Spring approaches and our schedules are once again getting filled up with photo and video work for CAFF, we thought we would share a few images from our work with them last year. For more information on CAFF or to apply for one of their programs, visit their website.

Enjoy!

Today on the blog: Recent editorial photography for Arkansas Wild Magazine. As it turned out, all three of the subjects to be photographed were available on the same day, so we scheduled the photoshoots accordingly. Of course, working for a chunk of the day at a computer, then driving all the way to Little Rock and doing 3 photoshoots in a row didn’t leave me much energy for driving back after the fact…(click to read more)

We recently had the opportunity to hang out with the fine folks from the Bentonville Water Utilities Department, thanks to a chance meeting with one of the higher-ups at a recent Vanarky in the Ozarks Event. Before long, we had a plan to meet for a day of photography + water utilities education. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again every time it’s relevant; One of the best parts of this job is learning about other people’s line of work. And for a major city’s water utilities department, there’s a lot to experience. And after a full day of photographing different scenarios, tools and departments, we came away with a library of images that clearly and thoroughly showcases many of the water utilities day-to-day responsibilities in visual form. Today, we’re sharing a few here on the blog. Enjoy.

We were recently hired by Feast and Field Magazine to create some images for an editorial story featuring Cooks Venture and it’s CEO and Founder, Matthew Wadiak. The story was recently published and so today, we are able to share some of the images. Living and working as a photographer in Northwest Arkansas, you are bound to do some sort of work in the poultry industry. And as far as our experience has been, the Cooks Venture birds are some of the…click to read more.

Hello and welcome to the last blog post of 2021. Traditionally, we have shared our favorite images from the past year. Of course, we have a lot of favorites and so our posts have pretty much been a photodump smorgasbord from the past year. This year, challenged ourselves to find and share 21 photos from the past year, along with a short blurb or story behind each one. So without further adieu, here they are. Enjoy.

Philip & Jared / Novo Studio