Check out @benfreed ‘s animations for Issie Lapowsky’s, “Prove You’re A Human” Deepfakes and chatbots are now good enough that many web users don’t trust they are interacting with real people. Link in bio.
Here are some projects from 2025 I didn’t get around to posting. So grateful to be able to work with such amazing artists.
THE CHATBOT DELUSIONS
By Ellen Huet and Rachel Metz
Photographs by Desiree Rios for Bloomberg Businessweek
As Bushmeat Consumption Grows, Nigerian Doctors Fear Outbreaks
By Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi
Photographs by Etinosa Yvonne for Bloomberg Businessweek
The CEO Guide to Getting What You Want Out of Trump
By Wes Kosova
Photo Illustration: Ben Denzer for Bloomberg Businessweek
Chinese Caviar and Foie Gras Shake Up Global Gourmet Dining
By Karoline Kan
Photographs by Raul Ariano for Bloomberg Businessweek
Trump Wants to End Quarterly Reporting. Jack Welch Would Approve
By Stacey Vanek Smith
Photo illustration: Benjamin Freedman for Bloomberg Businessweek
THE CHATBOT DELUSIONS
By Ellen Huet and Rachel Metz
Photographs by Amy Lynn Powell for Bloomberg Businessweek
Healthy Sodas Like Poppi, Olipop Are Drawing PepsiCo’s and Coca-Cola’s Attention
By Deena Shanker
Photograph by Patricia Lopez Ramos for Bloomberg Businessweek; Prop Stylist: Kelly Silva
How a Nuclear-Fossil Fuel Alliance Is Winning the Fight for Energy Dominance
By Monte Reel and Mark Chediak
Photographs by Rita Iovine for Bloomberg Businessweek
The Boom in ‘Better for You’ Kid Snacks Is Worse for Parents
By Deena Shanker
Photograph by Andria Lo for Bloomberg Businessweek
INDIAS BOILING POINT
By Rajesh Kumar Singh, Swati Gupta and Clara Ferreira Marques
Photographs by Kanishka Sonthalia for Bloomberg Businessweek
Trump’s App Shutdown Is a Gift to Mexico’s Cartels
By Michael Scott Moore
Photographs by Ariana Drehsler for Bloomberg Businessweek
@willcrooksphoto photographed Kid Rock’s “Rock The Country” in Anderson, South Carolina for Ashley Carman and Felix Gillette’s piece, “Kid Rocks, MAGA MAN”.
Art directed with @the.wilkinsonian .
link in bio.
A work update since I started at Bloomberg Businessweek. BEYOND grateful and blessed to be working with such an amazing photo team! ( @aeriel78@leonorjr@ryanduffin@haliechavez@jyeomansbbphoto@donnacnyc_photo@DeitmarLizLepiorz )
1. Phil Knight Is Using His Nike Fortune to Make Oregon a Football Powerhouse
Photographer: Will Matsuda for Bloomberg Businessweek
2. The US Government Is Sitting on a Possible Solution to the Housing Crisis
Photographer: Hannah Whitaker for Bloomberg Businessweek
3. Why AI Investors Should Worry About the Self-Driving Car Crash
Photo illustration: Matthew Porter for Bloomberg Businessweek
4. Trump’s Tariffs Leave Economists Fixated on One Word: Stagflation
Photographer: Jeff Bark for Bloomberg Businessweek
5. The Startup That Stepped In When the Baby Formula Supply Chain Broke
Photographer: Peter Garritano for Bloomberg Businessweek
6. Eight Years of Populism Hasn’t Gotten America Very Far
Photographer: Jordan Tiberio for Bloomberg Businessweek. Embroidery: Emily Simpson
7. Searching For A New Google
Photographer: Jessica Chou for Bloomberg Businessweek
8. Cheap Consumer Goods Are the American Dream, Actually
Photographer: Carmen Winant for Bloomberg Businessweek
9. Ukrainian Refugees in the US Worry Trump Could Push Them Out
Photographer: Stella Kalinina for Bloomberg Businessweek
10. The Era of Finance CEOs Running Retailers Is Over
Photographer: Elizabeth Renstrom for Bloomberg Businessweek
11. How an Israeli Hostage Negotiator Outsmarts Ransomware Hackers
Photographer: Amit Elkayam for Bloomberg Businessweek
12. Centrist Politicians Don’t Get That Immigration Is Like Trade
Photographer: Margeaux Walter for Bloomberg Businessweek
Check out Julian Lucas’s piece on Danzy Senna. Photographed by the amazing @fancyBethany
Danzy Sennas is amused by your mixed feelings.
For decades, the novelist has found humor in the ever-changing ways that biracial people are questioned, fetishized, or ignored in America.
Edited with @katzandrew
Happy Birthday to the only person that matters in my life, to a love I’d never felt before. Happy Birthday Augs. You are and always will be the best thing that’s ever happened to me!
I also want to note that it truly takes a village. Emily and I are so fucking grateful to be surrounded by such amazing people who not only care for us but care for Augs. We would be lost without you all. Special thank you to Deedee @donnavalentii@jessev333@ryegresh for having aug’s first birthday the house!! It honestly means the world!!
Tune in to Antonia Hitchen’s piece, “ The Vigil Keepers Of January 6th.” In the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol , a trio of women with family members who participated in the riot moved to D.C to seek their own kind of justice.
Photographs by the amazing @lexey
Edited with @katzandrew
@michaeltyronedelaney photographed @mdou_moctar and his band for @nifmuhammad ‘s piece, “ Mdou Moctar’s Guitar-Bending Cry For Justice.” How the Tuareg band merged political anguish and musical transcendence.”
Edified with @katzandrew
@hahnbo photographed director Lee Isaac Chung for @newyorkermag digital interviews issue. Check out Justin Changs piece, “Lee Isaac Chung’s upward spiral”. Four years after the release of his Oscar-winning drama, “Minari,” the director enters the eye of the summer-movie storm with “Twisters.”
@twistersmovie
#twistersmovie
Edited with @katzandrew
