Think of your senior year photos. How did you wrap up your high school years, and what events surrounded your graduation? Twelve Dallas seniors share their experiences of graduating during the era of COVID-19 and discuss how they’re reckoning with missed milestones.
Marc Anthony for Billboard Magazine
Marc Anthony and his manager Henry Cárdenas for Billboard Magazine
The Hollywood Reporter | Julie K. Brown & Emily Michot
Video journalist Emily Michot (left) amplified the print exposé by Julie K. Brown, who says, "I tend to be a pretty aggressive reporter, so we balance each other out." They were photographed Nov. 18 at The Hyatt Regency Coral Gables in Miami.
Video journalist Emily Michot (left) amplified the print exposé by Julie K. Brown, who says, "I tend to be a pretty aggressive reporter, so we balance each other out." They were photographed Nov. 18 at The Hyatt Regency Coral Gables in Miami.
Mario The Empanada Man for AARP Magazine
Mario, aka. The Empanada Man, makes empanadas for his friends at The Palace, a senior living community in Coral Gables, FL.
Photo by Mary Beth Koeth for AARP
Art Direction by Katrina Zook
Moms In Weed | Parents Magazine
Why Moms Are Pioneering the Marijuana Industry | Parents Magazine
There may still be a stigma around marijuana use across the country, but these mothers are blazing the way for women in the cannabis industry.
Melanie Sylvan Sachs and her son Elias, 2, at their home in Windermere, FL.
📷 by Mary Beth Koeth
Art Direction by Sarina Finkelstein
September 2019 | Southwest: The Magazine
“After the Ohio Senior Olympics, Dad and his friends started training in earnest. They traveled to other ping-pong clubs, testing themselves against different players. Doc hired a coach, a kid in his 20s who is trying to make the actual U.S. Table Tennis team. My dad started being more conscientious about what he ate: fewer late-night potato chips, more vegetables.”
The Fountain of Youth Has a Net | September 2019 | Southwest: The Magazine
Writing by Laura Arenschield
Photography by Mary Beth Koeth
Art Direction by Desiree Espada
Creative Direction by Kevin de Miranda
Wardrobe and props provided by Broadview Heights Spotlights Theatre
Financial Times
Mary Beth Koeth for FT
David Millstone and David Winter: Putting the business before family
Written by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Mary Beth Koeth for FT
AARP | Richard Conti
This is the kind of assignment that makes my heart sing.
📷 by Mary Beth Koeth for AARP
“When I hear music, I feel electrified. I can’t just sit there—I’ve got to get up and dance. I got my first job as a cruise ship dance host when I was about 70. Since then, I’ve filled my time with three or four trips a year. It’s not a paid gig, but you do get food and lodging in exchange for a small daily fee. I do ballroom dances with the women traveling solo. My job is to make everyone look good on the dance floor. I get to meet all these lovely people. I don’t think of my age when I do this. It seems to erase time.” —As told to Michael Anft
Former high school teacher Richard Conti, 83, lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Iggy Pop
🤘🏼Iggy Pop🤘🏼
The ten best albums of the punk godfather - and six of his own personal favorite records, presented at home in Miami.
📝: Dennis Drögemüller
📷: Mary Beth Koeth for Germany’s MINT Magazin
Art Direction: Anna Merten
Mary Beth Koeth Promotes Pay Parity with Alex Morgan for Adweek
“Like a true nerd, I googled ‘athletic drills’ before the shoot and had my assistant, Javier, practice in front of the camera. We showed Alex a few side-to-side drills that worked, and she got on set and nailed it. If you look at the images of Alex next to the images of Javier, it’s clear who the world-class athlete is. I say that with love. Javier is fit, but he’s not winning a World Cup anytime soon”
Read more about our shoot with Alex on the .Wonderful Machine Blog
Compass
Compass is building the first modern real estate platform, pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless. These are some of the Compass Agents that I've photographed over the past four years in New York, Miami, Dallas, and Seattle. #compasseverywhere
Texas Monthly | Spencer Brown
Texas Monthly has been on my ✨dream client list✨ for a long time. I was super giddy when Claire Hogan reached out to me for this assignment. Thanks Emily Kimbro for the recommendation~because I knew straight away where that came from 💖
Tension and Release for Texas Monthly “My friend Spencer Brown has always suffered from anxiety. Becoming a famous, globe-trotting DJ ramped up his stress—and gave him a way to channel it.”
📝: Max Marshall 📷: Mary Beth Koeth 💪🏼: Javier Sanchez
Brown at the nightclub Barter, during Miami Music Week on March 28, 2019.
Off Season Santas, Santa David
Off-Season Santas, Santa David 🎅, 73, is a retired System Test Engineer from Viera, Florida. “I made sneaky, fun toys for the government,” he said. When I asked him to tell me everything, he responded, “I can’t. It’s top secret.”
In 2012, he won the Grand Prize in Canon’s "Project Imaginat10n" photography contest. Ron Howard chose his winning photograph. In his spare time, Santa David continues to take photos of just about everything.
René Buch
René Buch, 93, is a Cuban playwright and director. He co-founded Repertorio Español in New York City with the late Producer Gilberto Zaldívar. Their goal was to produce excellent theatre in Spanish. René also loves music and has an extensive vinyl record collection.
NYC
As I was snapping photos of the New York City streetscape, this old Italian man ran out of this old Italian restaurant. “You both need to be IN the picture,” he said. “I will take it for you.” I gave him the camera. He looked through the viewfinder. “If you two were the bookends,” he said. “I would very much like to be the book.” The sounds of this city make me smile.
Flamingo Magazine | Versace Mansion
Flamingo Magazine Icons Issue | Spring 2019: The Miami mansion that Gianni Versace once owned has captivated Floridians and tourists for more than 20 years. Go behind the gates of the infamous home, now a boutique hotel where visitors can revel in luxury.
📝:Eric Barton 📷: Mary Beth Koeth; Model: Caroline Krystoff; Dress by Très Nomad and 18K dueling Malachite Shield cuffs by Cresta Bledsoe Fine Jewelry. Styling: Cresta Bledsoe; Makeup | Hair: Jesus Bravo
Christi's Story
“When I was 26 weeks pregnant I was hospitalized for a condition called HELLP syndrome. My blood pressure was sky high and I was having raging headaches and nosebleeds. I was told that my liver and kidneys would soon shut down and I could die. I was not given an option to continue the pregnancy. My daughter Macy was delivered by Caesarean section weighing a pound and a half. She was a fighter. She had wonderful care and is today a healthy and strong 21-year old woman. Every time I read about another attempt to impose limits on decisions that should be made between a pregnant woman and her doctor, I think - that could be me. If my tiny fragile daughter had not survived, the operation to save my life in 1997 might in today’s rhetoric be termed a “late-term abortion.” Today, in some states, the decision to deliver my baby and save my life would not have been made by a doctor, but by a legislature. And it is likely that neither of us would be here.” - Christi Hayes, posting on Pantsuit Nation two weeks ago
Robert "Bob" Leaf
Robert "Bob" Leaf, 87, former international CEO at PR firm Burson-Marsteller.
The Wall Street Journal
Residents of high-tax cities are increasingly drawn to South Florida after last year’s tax law capped deductions.
📷 Mary Beth Koeth for The Wall Street Journal 📝: Laura Kusisto, Arian Campo-Flores and Jimmy Vielkind
Link to story HERE.
Holocaust Remembrance Day - Sonia Warshawski
Sonia Warshawski was born in 1925 in eastern Poland. During her teenage years, she survived three death camps: Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen. At Majdanek, through a peephole, she caught the last glimpse of her mother as her mother went to the gas chambers. Sonia was fifteen years old. One day at Auschwitz-Birkenau, to avoid being sent to the chambers, she hid in a pile of discarded prisoners’ clothes, holding her breath as guards poked the pile with their rifles. At Bergen-Belsen, as the British were liberating the camp in April 1945, she was shot through the shoulder. “I thought I was going to die,” she told me.
Today, at 93 years old, Sonia lives and works in Kansas City, running a tailor shop she opened with her husband some 38 years ago. She works six days a week. I had the opportunity to speak with Sonia last week, and she generously shared some of her story, which is also the subject of a documentary called “Big Sonia.”
