I'm very excited to announce that I've been selected as one of the 2016 winners in the Magenta Foundation's annual Flash Forward competition. I submitted work from my project, This is the worst party I've ever been to. The rest of the award winners are a diverse and talented group of photographers, and it's an honor to be mentioned alongside them.

Special congratulations to my friends Daniella Zalcman (that's her work in the screenshot here) and Jake Naughton, for winning the Bright Spark Award and the annual grant, respectively. Both wholeheartedly deserve the recognition and it couldn't have happened to nicer people.

Thanks also to all the jurors involved around the world in selecting the winners.

Last week, Reading the Pictures analyzed some of my photos of the MSNBC White House Correspondents Association Dinner after party. It's a good read on the pictures. Reading the Pictures have looked at my pictures a few times in the past, and it's always interesting to see what they have to say.

Here you can see all of the pictures MSNBC published.

Last week, I traveled to Washington DC to cover MSNBC's White House Correspondents Association Dinner after party for MSNBC. It was a surreal and exhausting experience, but I'm really happy with the edit that MSNBC published. Thanks to Amy and Rebecca and the rest of the MSNBC photo team for the assignment and edit, and to Diana and Rachel and the rest of the crew on the ground that made access to the party a breeze.

You can see the pictures online here: The glitz and glamour of the White House Correspondents' Dinner

And here's a 360 moving still image of me at the end of the night (about 3:30am) and thinking about the prospect of editing pictures to get published a few hours later.

A couple weeks ago while I was in New York for the New York Times Portfolio Review, I got in touch with Bryan Formhals. We'd known each other through blogging about photography for years, but had never met in person. He's been doing a great podcast for the past couple years called The LPV Show and asked if I'd be interested in recording an episode. I had a pretty tight schedule with meetings, but the guys graciously got together on a Friday night and we talked about my recent political work and book dummy, blogging about photography, and a couple of great photobooks, My America by Christopher Morris and Will Steacy's Deadline.

You can listen to the podcast on soundcloud or embedded on my website here. And on The LPV Show tumblr, there are some pictures of my book dummy, some behind the scenes pictures from when we recorded the podcast, and a few other posts about my work and the other books we discussed.

This was my first time ever doing any sort of interview like this, so I was a bit nervous. A big thanks to Bryan, Tom Starkweather, and Brett A. Davis, for making the process so fun and easy and for giving me the opportunity to talk about the work.

And thanks for the Mexican food!!

Thanks again to Rachel at the Globe and Mail for picking up a few of my images of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for a weekend double-truck in Canada's The Globe and Mail newspaper in the April 2, 2016, edition. I just love the way this spread came out. The pictures accompany a phenomenal article by Cathal Kelly: Through the looking glass: the many faces of Trump and his fans.

The paper has printed some of my images for previous pieces on Hillary Clinton and Trump.

Thanks again to Shaminder at Newsweek for picking up a couple pictures for the March 18, 2016, issue of the magazine. This time, it was a couple pictures of the MIT's Space Propulsion Laboratory's nanosatellites, originally shot for the Chronicle of Higher Education. It's always nice to find a new use for old pictures, especially in a big spread like above. The two pictures were also used online alongside the article, Cubesats Will Take Over the Skies, Thanks to Electric Propulsion.

And here's something funny about the big picture accompanying the online article. I needed something common and small to show the scale of the device and there wasn't anything in the lab that really seemed right. So I dug into my pocket and found a quarter and my house key, figuring those would both give a recognizable sense of scale. That's how my house key ended up being in a picture published by Newsweek.

Newsweek also recently published a handful of pictures from my project on the New Hampshire presidential primary.