Jorge Mas | The Billionaire Who Brought Messi Magic To Miami
📝 | Justin Birnbaum
📷 | Mary Beth Koeth for Forbes
💪🏼 | Johnny Beltran Pietro Milici
Photo Direction | Robyn Selman Gail Toivanen
Inter Miami CF
Kayla Harris | ESPN
‘Force of nature’: Kayla Harrison brings an iron will to UFC 300
Blood Brothers | ESPN
Cameron and Cayden Boozer, twin sons of Duke legend Carlos Boozer, are two of the most highly touted high school basketball recruits in the country. But their most crucial assist came long before either set foot on a basketball court. A new episode of ESPN E60 updates the story of how the twins helped save the life of their older brother Carmani through an incredible chain of events more than 15 years ago.
📷 Mary Beth Koeth for ESPN
Photo Team Matthew Becker Nick Galac Robert Booth
Digi Javier I Sanchez
Cuban coffee bump Karla Bakery
Rory McIlroy for Golf Digest
“Legacy, reputation, at the end of the day that’s all you have.” Golf Digest's latest cover star Rory McIlroy carries a burden that Arnold Palmer knew all too well."
📸: Mary Beth Koeth
Digi: Johnny Lynch
1st: Jose Arizmendi
Set: Lisa Gigliotti
Producer: Christian Iooss
Manuel Turizo | Billboard Magazine
Manuel Turizo | Billboard Español
Photographer: Mary Beth Koeth Styling: Brandon Nicholas Digi/Assist: Javier I Sanchez, Johnny Beltran, Emanuel Vinkler Grooming: Natasha Smee Location: Calle Dragones Miami Writer: Jessica Lucia Roiz
Eric Herzfeld | Forbes Magazine
Classical economics: All actors are rational. Stocks are efficiently priced.
Behavioral economics, per Nobelist Richard Thaler: Investors’ decisions are warped by emotion and ignorance. Prices can get out of line.
Count Erik M. Herzfeld, a money manager specializing in closed-end funds, in the Thaler camp. He aims to buy when fund shares trade at an irrationally low percentage of liquidating value and sell at a high percentage. Unlike mutual and exchange-traded funds, closed-ends don’t do redemptions, and their prices are a matter of investor whim.
📷 Mary Beth Koeth
💪🏽 Jose Arizmendi & Johnny Beltran
Photography Direction Robyn Selman
Forbes | Jimmy Rane
How A Crime Fighting Cowboy Became Alabama’s Only Billionaire Matt Durot Mary Beth Koeth for Forbes
Jimmy Rane took over a tiny treated lumber business and used his showman’s flair for marketing to transform it into a major player. The Yella Fella from Abbeville is now Alabama’s richest person—and the lumberyard will never be the same.
Photo Director Robyn Selman
Photo Researcher Gail Toivanen
Digi Javier I Sanchez
ELLE for Kohler
ELLE for Kohler
A street artist challenging, social norms and fearlessly innovating with her craft, Elle has become renowned as a groundbreaking creator and muralist. She’s exhibited throughout the world—from the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London to a two-hundred-foot-tall projection onto the facade of the New Museum in New York.
Kohler’s Artist Editions™ collection featuring four trailblazing female artists from around the world will debut at Milan Design Week on April 18th.
🙏🏼 @producedbymakers and @kohler teams such a fun day at @hgab_studios
🖥️ @lightisbeauty
#Kohler150 #MilanDesignWeek2023 @ellestreetart
Barbara Hulanicki | The Guardian
‘This jacket is from the 70s, but looks completely up to date’ Barbara Hulanicki, the founder of Biba , on her jacket. I made this jacket for Twiggy in the early 70s, which is why it’s so tiny. It was an early sample . I just said: “ Do you want to wear it?” We did lots of her clothes – we were one of the few labels that did such small sizes. I’ve always been inspired by leopard print. When we had the big store in Kensington, we had it everywhere. It never dies, but it can look a bit tacky if it hasn’t been done nicely. If you get the print and the colourway right – if the base colours are correct and the spots aren’t too large – it’s fabulous. 📷@mbkoeth for @guardian
Grayson Harviel, 18.
WSJ | Americans in Their 30s Are Piling On Debt
Americans in Their 30s Are Piling On Debt Overall burden is up more than for any other age group
Stacey Coquelin, with her daughter, Giselle, 12, says she has been priced out of the neighborhood she hoped to move to before the pandemic. ‘I was trying to buy a house before Covid, and that big housing boom happened,’ Stacey Coquelin says. ‘I got discouraged, a little depressed.’
By Gina Heeb and AnnaMaria Andriotis
Photographs by Mary Beth Koeth for The Wall Street Journal
BIllboard | Lele Pons and Guaynaa
WITH A WEDDING ON THE HORIZON, LELE PONS AND GUAYNAA ARE MARRYING THEIR MUSIC, TOO. Soon to wed, the Venezuelan influencer and singer and the Puerto Rican musician will release their first album together.
Writing | Sigal Ratner-Arias
Photography | Mary Beth Koeth for Billboard
Assistants | Javier Sanchez, Jake Soper
Retouching | Violaine Capra
Bed Bath & Beyond Used to Be Great. These Two Are Why. | WSJ
Bed Bath & Beyond Used to Be Great. These Two Are Why. Co-founders Warren Eisenberg, 92, and Leonard Feinstein, 85, explain their thrifty management, novel approach to merchandising and lucky timing as the chain now nears bankruptcy. See article HERE.
Writer | Suzanne Kapner Photographer | Mary Beth Koeth for The Wall Street Journal
10 Minutes with Sam Bankman Fried
On the 29th of September, I flew solo from Miami to the Bahamas to photograph FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried for The Australian Financial Review Magazine’s Young & Rich issue.
Going into the assignment, I knew I had ten minutes to work with Sam. I was hoping for a few tight, dynamic portraits and one environmental option in or around his office. When I arrived, I was given a tour of the main office and was told that I wouldn’t be able to photograph him there. We walked across the parking lot to an empty office space with two small bedrooms on one side, which allowed the company’s employees or visiting investors to sleep. On the other side of the empty space was the office of the company therapist, George Lerner. I set up my lights and asked George if he could sit in for me before Sam arrived on set. We spoke about the challenges of relocating with family to a small, remote island from his former life in San Francisco. I was also able to get a good sense of what Sam would be like to work with. If anyone knew the answer to that, it would be the company therapist.
Sam showed up in his typical wardrobe - an FTX t-shirt, shorts, high socks and sneakers. I worked with him for ten minutes while he was discussing future meetings and business on the side with his assistant standing next to me. He was kind, but seemed distracted, so I decided to forgo the environmental portrait.
On October 28th, our cover came out.
On Friday, November 11, FTX filed for bankruptcy.
Sam Bankman-Fried | AFR
Sam Bankman-Fried is worth $US16.5 billion, yet he drives a Toyota Corolla. He's spent $US1 billion bailing out cryptocurrency businesses, yet he thinks crypto has yet to prove it's had a positive impact, saying the industry is still 'pre-use case.' He's an advocate of Effective Altruism, and is vegan, yet he lives in the Bahamas, a tax haven. And he's on the cover of the Young Rich issue of The Australian Financial Review Magazine.
"A lot of this is being at the right place at the right time," he tells Mark Di Stefano, with whom he chatted about the 'crypto winter', about being tagged the 'Millennial Warren Buffett' and about Elon Musk, with whom he discussed acquiring Twitter. ("He moved markets, he moved everything.")
What does the future of entrepreneurialism look like? Pick up a copy of our Young Rich List issue to find out. Inside you'll find crypto, gaming, start-up founders trying to meet payroll, music, athleisure, unicorn balloons and Elvis.
Story by Mark Di Stefano
📷️ Mary Beth Koeth
Photo Editor Tim Beor
Billboard Latin Music Week
Billboard Latin Music Week Photo Booth
Photo Team | Mary Beth Koeth, Samantha Xu, Jenny Sargent, Javier I Sanchez, Violaine Capra
Coco Gauff | ESPN
Coco Gauff ESPN Cover Story
Meet George Johnson: The Angriest Songwriter in Washington, D.C. | Billboard Magazine
Meet George Johnson: The Angriest Songwriter in Washington, D.C.
Harold Evensky | Barron's Magazine
Harold Evensky, at his home in Key West, Florida. Cash Buckets Are Earning Their Keep as Markets Slide. Just Don’t Hold Too Much. Neil Templin Mary Beth Koeth for Barron's
This shoot, Harold, and Harold’s shirt filled my heart bucket. Thank you Nicole Silver and Sarina Finkelstein for this assignment.
https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/cash-bucket-strategy-retirement-51652983335?fbclid=IwAR3VWmdHjI5aBhtnqPP1TTFP3oarBMxrdFkIllnSuyX8DbSwu5yhr_TjfOU
Chillie Falls | New York Times
A ‘Cruiser’ Sets Sail, Despite Covid
A return to the sea means a return to life for one die-hard cruiser.
📝 by Cristal Duhaime
📷 by Mary Beth Koeth for The New York Times
Photo Direction Leslie Dela Vega
🛳 ♥️ ✨ Chillie Falls
For people who make cruising a lifestyle, not just a pastime, being marooned on land was devastating. Charles Falls Jr., known as Chillie, is one of those cruisers who set sail as much as possible. He has been on 55 cruises and in recent years started hosting a YouTube show about the industry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/opinion/a-cruiser-sets-sail-despite-covid.html