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Randal Ford
When texas monthly needed a talented photographer to shoot the signs, buttons, and bumper stickers from a vast collection of political memorabilia, Randal Ford emerged as the ideal candidate. He has the background (he was born in Dallas, graduated from Texas A&M University, and now lives in Austin), the résumé (he has shot detailed close-ups of cigarettes, dead fish, and one very craggy Tommy Lee Jones), and the common-sense platform (“To be honest, I am so tired of hearing politicians bicker,” he says). To see if his work wins your vote, turn to “The Permanent Campaign”.
Dung Hoang
Dung Hoang knows how lucky he is to be doing what he loves. Sure, he was concerned about breaking the news to his parents that he wanted to study graphic design in college (they wanted him to become a doctor or a lawyer), but for Hoang, the issue runs deeper than that. When he was only nine years old, his family fled South Vietnam. “We left the very day the U.S. embassy fell,” he says. “We were shot at, but we made it out on a fishing boat.” Today he lives in Utah, where he creates illustrations for magazines such as Esquire and Men’s Health. For this year’s Bum Steer Awards, he designed the surreal, circus-sideshow-inspired illustrations, which are the perfect complement to a year that saw more than its fair share of oddities.
Drew Webb
Who says toiling away as an unpaid intern all summer doesn’t have its benefits? After doing just that for more than two months at texas monthly last year, Cornell University junior and Houston native Drew Webb has plenty to show for his time. For this issue, he got golf greats such as Lee Trevino, Sherri Steinhauer, and the late Byron Nelson to share their favorite holes from around the state (“Par Excellence,”). According to Webb, “Everyone seems to like a hole that has kind of a secret to it—one where most people who haven’t played the hole before will screw up.”
Randal Ford
When texas monthly needed a talented photographer to shoot the signs, buttons, and bumper stickers from a vast collection of political memorabilia, Randal Ford emerged as the ideal candidate. He has the background (he was born in Dallas, graduated from Texas A&M University, and now lives in Austin), the résumé (he has shot detailed close-ups of cigarettes, dead fish, and one very craggy Tommy Lee Jones), and the common-sense platform (“To be honest, I am so tired of hearing politicians bicker,” he says). To see if his work wins your vote, turn to “The Permanent Campaign”.
Dung Hoang
Dung Hoang knows how lucky he is to be doing what he loves. Sure, he was concerned about breaking the news to his parents that he wanted to study graphic design in college (they wanted him to become a doctor or a lawyer), but for Hoang, the issue runs deeper than that. When he was only nine years old, his family fled South Vietnam. “We left the very day the U.S. embassy fell,” he says. “We were shot at, but we made it out on a fishing boat.” Today he lives in Utah, where he creates illustrations for magazines such as Esquire and Men’s Health. For this year’s Bum Steer Awards, he designed the surreal, circus-sideshow-inspired illustrations, which are the perfect complement to a year that saw more than its fair share of oddities.
Drew Webb
Who says toiling away as an unpaid intern all summer doesn’t have its benefits? After doing just that for more than two months at texas monthly last year, Cornell University junior and Houston native Drew Webb has plenty to show for his time. For this issue, he got golf greats such as Lee Trevino, Sherri Steinhauer, and the late Byron Nelson to share their favorite holes from around the state (“Par Excellence,”). According to Webb, “Everyone seems to like a hole that has kind of a secret to it—one where most people who haven’t played the hole before will screw up.”
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