UnitedHealthcare & The Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation
A project of UnitedHealthcare’s Do Good. Live Well. initiative, the Team8 Tour positively impacted tens of thousands of students, families, and volunteers across the country in its mission to build healthy communities. Partnering with the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, volunteers from UHC made improvements to high school athletic facilities across the country. Eric documented this initiative for CBS over the span of three years.
VIKA LIVING
The Vika One is a 144 square foot living unit that can be folded and shipped easily all over the world. The unit can be assembled on site in an hour and used an additional dwelling for a property, a vacation property or even temporary housing in natural disaster recovery. Eric was hired to photograph the prototype in Joshua Tree, California for Vika Living's marketing purposes.
Dell & Waterkeeper Alliance
Employing locals in Guerrero, Mexico, Waterkeeper Alliance is overseeing the collection of plastic bound for the Pacific Ocean. This plastic is then converted into packaging for Dell laptops.
Cadillac “Dare Greatly: Ray Villafane"
Cadillac's national "Dare Greatly" campaign features people that excel at their craft. Ray Villafane is an artist known for carving world famous pumpkins and creating oversized scarecrows from found objects. His work is featured annually by the New York Botanical Garden. Eric documented Villafane's process in the Arizona desert and the installation at the NYBG. The digital assets were used by Cadillac in their digital campaign.
The Climate Group’s RE 100 Initiative
The initiative’s goal is to have all Fortune 100 companies carbon neutral by 2050. Eric travelled to North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania and Northern California to document the clean energy of Hewlitt Packard Enterprises and Ikea.
Allstate & YWCA
For Allstate's Purple Purse initiative, Eric and his team traveled to Lynchburg, VA to document the work Linda Ellis Williams, head of YWCA's domestic violence program. Allstate has developed a curriculum to give abuse survivors, like Linda, the financial tools to move ahead.
UnitedHealthcare & Second Harvest Heartland
Second Harvest Heartland organizes free farmers markets for at risk populations. Slightly blemished or irregular produce is donated by local farmers and distributed to people in need. This market, near Minneapolis, was staffed by United Healthcare volunteers.
CenturyLink & Habitat for Humanity
CenturyLink volunteers helped Habitat for Humanity build critically needed housing for homeless and disenfranchised residents of Denver. This photo set was created for internal and external CenturyLink communications.
UNITEDHEALTHCARE & NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, just a few miles from where George Floyd was murdered by police, a 501c3 nonprofit called Northside Boxing Club teaches youth the values of discipline, confidence, compassion and respect. The mission of Northside is to effect positive change in North Minneapolis young men through boxing, education, and physical fitness.
Jimmy Miller Foundation & United States Marine Corps
The Jimmy Miller Foundation, founded by the popular surfer's family after his suicide, believes that the ocean heals. Eric photographed this ocean therapy session with the Wounded Warrior Battalion West at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California. Surf instructors from the foundation gave surf lessons to active military members who have been injured in the line of duty. These images were taken on assignment for “Citizen.” a quarterly journal from CBS.
EXECUTIVE PORTRAITS
Eric has photographed executive teams and staff for organizations across the country. He believes that a portrait should not only reveal a person's personality, but its execution should embody the organization's values.