Every year as Cinco de Mayo approaches I'm faced with coordinating cover shoots that are clearly Mexican-themed. The past few years I have exhausted the cliche of a sombrero-clad model holding a margarita, so this year I came up with the idea for a mariachi group to grace the cover of the College Times.
It didn't take long to find a local mariachi band in the Phoenix area, but I was happily surprised to find an all-female group called Mariachi Pasion that was available for a photo shoot.
I am the chief photographer for AZ Integrated Media, the parent company of the College Times; a free weekly magazine with a readership of more than 100,000 that caters to the college-age crowd in the Phoenix area.