Four Things about Me
• I was born in Chicago and have spent most of my life there; I took up photography at age 18, when I was in college.
• For most of the past 40 years I’ve made some or all of my living from photography, specializing in “corporate”-style work for nonprofits: people, programs, and events. Most of those pictures are of roughly zero interest to anyone other than the clients who commissioned me to take them.
• Although I’ve shot roughly two million digital photos, when not working for others I like to shoot film.
• I have never done news photography or photojournalism, and yet preserving a record of what my camera saw has always been important to me — which is why TTG isn’t just for “news” photos.
Most people coming to this website are here because TTG sent them here, but if you came here to see what the subject looks like, here you go.
• For most of the past 40 years I’ve made some or all of my living from photography, specializing in “corporate”-style work for nonprofits: people, programs, and events. Most of those pictures are of roughly zero interest to anyone other than the clients who commissioned me to take them.
• Although I’ve shot roughly two million digital photos, when not working for others I like to shoot film.
• I have never done news photography or photojournalism, and yet preserving a record of what my camera saw has always been important to me — which is why TTG isn’t just for “news” photos.
Most people coming to this website are here because TTG sent them here, but if you came here to see what the subject looks like, here you go.
Four Things about TTG
• TTG’s launch in January 2026 was more than 29 years after I started developing a simple idea: “We should label trustworthy images rather than trying to guess which images are untrustworthy.”
• ttg.photos is more than 10 times as large a website as is ttg.video, in part because of the more complex role of “time” in photographs compared to videos.
• ttg.video was born when I realized that uninterrupted video clips could — when inserted within longer videos — play the same role that “quoted” passages play within news articles.
• During the crazily long development of TTG, I learned lessons about perseverance from the example of a British mathematician. More on this
• ttg.photos is more than 10 times as large a website as is ttg.video, in part because of the more complex role of “time” in photographs compared to videos.
• ttg.video was born when I realized that uninterrupted video clips could — when inserted within longer videos — play the same role that “quoted” passages play within news articles.
• During the crazily long development of TTG, I learned lessons about perseverance from the example of a British mathematician. More on this