Author: Sean Sheridan

Sean Sheridan is a photojournalist and author who for the last 16 years has been shooting and writing stories that elevate people and brands. Sheridan has a bachelor of science degree in journalism from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. His first major work project was to help craft the marketing plan surrounding the launch of Bill Gates’ best-selling book, The Road Ahead and produce the CD-ROM version bound into the book. He also contributed to Gates’ second book, Business @ the Speed of Thought, before joining a private production company to shoot film projects around the world. In July 2002, Sheridan started 4:Minute.Media to tell compelling stories through feature writing, photography, film, and publishing. His work has taken him to nearly 60 countries and has been found in SMITHSONIAN magazine and on the cover of The Washington Times, countless development agencies and gallery exhibitions, Testimony Africa—his book about the terrible beauty of AIDS, genocide, and hunger in Africa—and most recently Wahl STORY, his book about renowned graffiti artist Erik Wahl. Sheridan and his family live in Colorado.
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Formspring Me!

A few months ago I had the chance to take a couple of portrait shots of the founders of this amazing little startup called Formspring.me. It’s a cool little application you can use to let people ask you any question they want. Ask ME something. Anyhow, here are a couple photos of the main dudes over there:

Formspring.me co-founder John Wechsler in the Formspring.me office in Indianapolis shortly before moving the corporate headquarters to the Bay Area. March 19, 2010.
An office pool on the rate of growth the staff expected they would attain.
Formspring.me co-founder Ade Olonoh in the Formspring.me office in Indianapolis shortly before moving the corporate headquarters to the Bay Area. March 18, 2010.

I used my trusty Nikon F5 and Kodak film.

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Justice

Last month I was privileged to accompany International Justice Mission President and CEO Gary Haugen, along with several other IJM staff and donors, on a tour of their work in Cambodia and the Philippines. It was a remarkable trip, and being with these folks was, in short, amazing. Nikon provided me with a D3 and several lenses; I shot the entire trip on that body and IJM’s D700. Here are a few selects (note: none of the people in this short film are IJM clients):

Thanks to everyone at IJM for a great trip!

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Evelyn Rose Louise Sheridan

Born at 1:25 am June 24, 2010 in a waterbath at the Sheridan’s house on Cascade Avenue in Colorado Springs.

Evelyn Rose Louise Sheridan. At home on our bed; 2 hours and 13 minutes old; still connected to umbilical cord. She is just as God made her here.

Evelyn’s esophagus did not develop as expected, so today she had a surgery to correct it. It went well. Check her new blog for more information about her journey!

Evelyn Rose Louise Sheridan. A day and a half old, post operation.
Evelyn Rose Louise Sheridan. A day and a half old, post operation. Doing really well all things considered!

Here is a slideshow of her first two days…

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Crown It

Update: Crowns film is done!

I just had a great trip to Rwanda. The first part of the trip was to help Karisimbi Business Partners get some stuff shot and also to hang with the Urquhart family. That was a good time. Along the way I did some shooting for International Justice Mission. That was equally good. I have some cool photographs of those two shoots but will save those for later.

The remainder and bulk of the time was spent with World Vision and a group called Casting Crowns. This was my third shoot in Rwanda and the country looks better and better all the time. One of the highlights was seeing my friend Emmanuel at the Murambi Genocide Memorial outside of Butare. It had been five years since I had seen him (and taken a photograph of him that made its way into Smithsonian Magazine (see “Testimony Africa,” which is now at the printer and will be ready in September. More on that soon.) Here is a slide-show of some of the photographs. The full Casting Crowns movie will be ready in mid July.

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Cover Girl

When I shot and wrote for Compassion after the earthquake in Haiti, I came across a lovely scene in a Compassion project where a woman was holding her hands up to the sky in thanks to God. I knew right then it was a special photograph, and I am glad Compassion saw it that way too and used it for the cover of their new magazine. Here is the non-cropped black and white version:

Be sure to click the link above and see the three stories inside the magazine I shot and wrote as well!