From 1996 to 2000 he held the post of "The New Yorker’s" staff photographer, shooting an average of 52 assignments a year. Other subjects included Al Gore, James Brown, Donald Trump, Natalie Portman, Tom Hanks, Roger Federer, Tilda Swinton, David Geffen, and a group portrait of 40 Nobel laureates. In 1997 he photographed almost the entirety of the magazine’s celebrated Indian Fiction issue. After his tenure at "The New Yorker" he followed its editor, Tina Brown, to become Photo Editor-At-Large of her "Talk Magazine".