Saint Joseph's College of Maine Summer Magazine Cover

In June, Saint Joseph's College hired me to photograph one of their alumni Nicole Ashton for their magazine cover.  Nicole is a professional nurse working in Boston, she also happened to be volunteering at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded!  Nicole had not been back to Copley Square since the bombing and Marathon. She agreed to be photographed there with some apprehension.  David Swenson the magazine editor and I met Nicole at the Copley Fairmont Plaza Hotel and then walked around Copley Plaza to a few locations I had scouted earlier in the day.  Considering the trauma and experience Nicole had dealt with at the Marathon she was a professional for us and made my job of photographing her easy.  It was only when we had wrapped up that she let us know how hard being in Copley had been for her.  I can't imagine what she had experienced being a first responder on that day. We all saw the news photos and heard about the carnage. We are all lucky to have people like Nicole as part of our society.  As a photographer, it was a real privilege to be able to photograph a person who put their own life at risk to help others in need.