Sixth Shoot: Friday, Mar. 5 Wade and I went out to Oswego to get transitional photos of Nikki and Christian leaving their house and heading out to Manlius where the Medical Weight Loss of New York, PLLC clinic is located. Nikki has been taking Christian to the clinic every two weeks for check-ups. Once again [...]

Fifth Shoot: Friday, Feb. 26 Today I started working with Wade from the motion media class. He coincidentally made contact with one of my subjects earlier in the week on a related but different story about obesity. When I found out about it I contacted Wade and asked him if he’d just like to jump [...]

Fourth Shoot: Friday, Feb. 19 Christian and Nikki return to the Medical Weight Loss of New York, PLLC clinic where Christian is weighed and all of his vitals are checked by the staff. While at the appointment Christian learns that he lost six pounds of fat. His normally stoic face melts away and a gleaming [...]

Third Shoot: It’s Thursday, Feb. 11 and I met Nikki and Christian at Price Chopper in Oswego to follow them as they do some grocery shopping. Nikki strategically shopped along the outer most walls of the grocery store using a technique nutritionists call “perimeter shopping.” Nikki said generally speaking, all of the healthy foods are [...]

Second Shoot:Feb. 5, 2010–This evening Christian went to Burger’s Okinawan Karate Studio to practice martial arts. He has been enrolled in karate there since October and has already advanced to a green-stripe belt. This particular evening was a do-it-yourself practice session but a black-belt instructor at the dojo was happy to help Christian work on [...]

First Shoot: Feb. 2, 2010–I met Christian Cary, 12, and his mother Nikki Cary for the first time at the Medical Weight Loss of New York clinic. Dr. Wendy Scinta, founder of the clinic and board-certified bariatric physician, was meeting with Christian and Nikki for the second time going over his lipid results, blood work, [...]