A while ago, I photographed a story for Teach For America's One Day Magazine. This was a strange mixture of types of photography, mostly portraits and a situation I knew very well from countless newspaper assignments where you really have to be creative and personable to illustrate the story which has already happened.

I was incredibly nervous about this assignment; not because of the story or anything directly related to the work to be done. I was nervous because one of my photography idols, Melissa Lyttle, recommended me for the shoot. I realized that I was essentially filling for her while she was out of town, and that reality was filled with honor and terror. This particular assignment was tricky because I was to photograph a family and a mixture of colleagues from different schools, with a focus the one subject - I'm not sure if they had all met each other before this day. We met in an empty shopping center early in the morning and I made the best of the situation.

This story is about a man, Danny Herrera, who left his job as a principal to become the assistant principal at his alma mater. It was a community story; one that came full circle.

Read more here: https://goo.gl/2wDgHO

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